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Jefferies still being penalized for previous European exposure

If there was one company that was hit hard by the fallout from the MF Global scandal, it was Jefferies, the mid-market powerhouse. The company's stock tanked and its CDS spreads widened in the wake

SEC takes aim at use of repos for window dressing

Is this the end of quarterly window dressing? At the end of the period, banks had recently taken some liberties with their ability to lower debt to goose earnings via repos. A Wall Street Journal