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Midday Minute August 12 – Finance

The U.S. government and Swiss bank UBS have reached an agreement in a case seeking names of approximately 52,000 names of suspected American tax evaders. The governments have initialed agreements and will later sign a final accord, Justice Department lawyer Stuart Gibson told U.S. District Judge Alan Gold in Miami today, Bloomberg reported.

Emdeon shares jump in debut

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Emdeon Inc shares started trading for $17.75 in their debut on Wednesday following their initial public offering, and rose to as much as $18.24.
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Funds to bid for Citi's Bellsystem24 by Sep 1: sources

Buyout funds including Permira and KKR have been told to submit their first bids by September 1 for Citigroup Inc's Bellsystem24, a leading Japanese telemarketer, in what might be the largest private equity deal in Japan this year, sources familiar with the process said on Wednesday.
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Lehman can pursue CDO claim: court

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc can pursue claims on assets in a bankruptcy case expected to set a precedent for treatment of derivatives in complex investment products, a New York court said on Tuesday.
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Bank of America faces more bonus embarrassment

Bank of America Corp will likely face more embarrassing disclosures about bonuses paid at Merrill Lynch & Co after a federal judge refused to rubber-stamp a settlement over the $3.6 billion of payouts.
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Financial stocks drag Wall Street down

Stocks slid on Tuesday after a prominent banking analyst warned that the sector's fundamentals have not yet improved, sparking a sell-off in bank shares.
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Wall Street down, hurt by financial stocks, data

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.
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Wall St down, hurt by financial stocks, data

Stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed an unexpectedly large drop in inventories at wholesalers in June, while an analyst's warning that fundamentals for the banking industry have not improved sent financial sector shares lower.
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U.S. banks play catch-up on hiring effort

U.S. banks, which have cut thousands of jobs during the two-year-old financial crisis, are suddenly racing to fill empty seats to make the most of soaring stock markets and narrowing credit spreads.
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Pequot trades raised many warnings from watchdogs

Exchange watchdogs made dozens of referrals to U.S. securities regulators about the once prominent hedge fund Pequot Capital Management, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a letter revealed on Monday.
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InfrastruX seeks up to $290 mln in IPO

InfrastruX Group Inc, a provider of services to gas and electricity companies, is seeking to raise up to $290 million in an initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
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Pequot trades raised many warnings: report

Pequot Capital Management Inc, once a prominent hedge fund firm, has been named dozens of times in private reports that alerted U.S. financial regulators to possible insider trading or other misconduct, according to Bloomberg News.
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Goldman must yield info in trade secret case: judge

Goldman Sachs Group Inc will have to give up its personnel information on a former employee accused of stealing trade secrets, after a U.S. judge on Monday denied the firm's motion to quash a request by the computer programmer's lawyer.
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Wall St dips after four-week rally

Stocks fell on Monday, but were off their session lows, as investors booked profits following a four-week rally that took the broad S&P 500 index to a 10-month high on Friday.
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State Street says legal reserve may not be enough

State Street Corp , one of the world's biggest institutional investors, said on Monday it may not have set aside enough money to cover fees and penalties linked to lawsuits and investigations by regulators into risky investments.
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Wall St slips after four-week rally

Stocks fell on Monday as investors booked profits following a four-week rally that took the broad S&P 500 index to a 10-month high on Friday.
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Credit Suisse fined for violating U.S. research pact

A U.S. regulator fined a unit of Credit Suisse Group AG $275,000 for failing to make independent research available to customers, as required under an industrywide settlement over alleged faulty stock research.
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Dynegy to sell $1.5 billion in assets to LS Power

Dynegy Inc said it will sell eight power plants to private equity firm LS Power for around $1.5 billion in cash and stock, basically ending a two-and-a-half-year joint venture between the two companies.
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Fortinet files for $100 mln IPO

Network security provider Fortinet Inc filed with U.S. regulators on Monday to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of common stock.

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