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Reuters said this about the SEC's meeting on Tuesday about short selling: "Financial professionals, academic experts and the U.S. broker-dealer watchdog agree the Securities and Exchange Commission... Read more...

The mania-like urge to short stocks last year led to some big shortages in borrow-able stocks and created a shady cottage industry aimed at filling the need. Stock-loan finders sought to help the... Read more...

Meredith Whitney, of Oppenheimer, is telling clients that broker-dealers' second-quarter earnings are under pressure, reports MarketWatch. One new twist comes from the credit defaults swap market.... Read more...

For all the talk abut how Lehman Brothers no longer is just a bond shop, when the Bear Stearns news went down, the fear spread directly to Lehman Brothers. The sense... Read more...

Company News:> NYSE snags big China company IPO. Article > More on China IPOs. Read more...

If you're an old pro on Wall Street, the current turmoil is not that new. Standard & Poor's notes some similarities between now and 1998. The subprime mortgage woes in some ways recall the Asian... Read more...

The ongoing credit turmoil has not been kind to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It has reportedly been forced to pull out of several offerings, and a loan offering for Alliance Boots has been delayed. The... Read more...

The ongoing credit turmoil has not been kind to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. It has reportedly been forced to pull out of several offerings, and a loan offering for Alliance Boots has been delayed.... Read more...

We've discussed the possibility of a systemic meltdown in credit derivatives. The issue is clouded by Read more...

There has been a lot of talk lately about how investment bank and private equity firms compete against one another. Most of the talk has been focused on the top investment banks' private equity... Read more...