'Occupy Wall Street' protest is 10 days old today.
American President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned the Wall Street against their reckless spending and asked them to act responsibly and be accountable.
The sweeping Wall Street Reform Bill that was passed by the House of Representatives by vote 237-192, largely along party lines now goes to the Senate; which faces the prospect of filibuster by the Republicans.
The Trump administration has threatened to freeze more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts if the university refused to submit to demands, including it eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs, ban masks at campus protests, enact merit-based hiring and admissions reforms, and reduce the power of faculty and administrators the White House has said are "more committed to activism than scholarship."
A furious President Barack Obama slammed Wall Street's top bosses for taking $18 billion in bonuses describing it as "shameful" and "height of irresponsibility" while taxpayers bailed out their industry.
A stellar cast keeps you riveted to this sequel to Wall Street.
It is unlikely that Wall Street will ever be free of people in positions of power getting involved in all manner of devilry.
Carlsen was fined $ 200 for wearing jeans, which are "explicitly prohibited" under tournament regulations
The Occupy Wall Street protests entered their third week in New York.
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has been signed on to helm the sequel to his 1987 hit film Wall Street starring Michael Douglas. Douglas, who won an Oscar for the original film, is set to reprise his Gordon Gekko's role.
The sentence -- which some legal considered light -- seemed to be the result of the consideration by the court that Rajaratnam, 54, was apparently in poor health and despite being on the wrong side of the law, had contributed over the years to charities and for benevolent activities.
United States President Donald Trump on Sunday warned of new and significantly higher tariffs on Chinese goods if Beijing does not withdraw a recent 34 per cent retaliatory tariff hike, threatening to end all ongoing talks with China.
The financial district of Wall Street is slowly turning 'green'.
Given the dimensions, it is bound to have at least ripple effects across markets. Could ripple turn into cascade? asks Devangshu Datta.
Putin is keen on establishing a good personal rapport with Trump and anchor a meaningful US-Russia partnership, realistic enough to accept that Trump is as good an American president as Russia would ever get, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation has announced that it has struck a deal to buy Dow Jones & Company -- publishers of the prestigious financial daily The Wall Street Journal -- for $5 billion.
Pananjay Tiwari, founder and director of Impel Overseas Education, explains how the new changes can impact Indian students who are applying to US universities and those who are already studying in the US.
'I am a great believer that print will not disappear. The two medium will continue to evolve and reinforce each other,' says Christine Brendle, MD, Wall Street Journal Asia.
America's biggest insider trading case that has rocked Wall Street has pitted one Indian-American against the other, in which New York's top federal prosecutor Preet Bharara will use every legal weapon to nail corporate America's poster boy Rajat Gupta and others.
Among Sensex shares, Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services, Tech Mahindra, Sun Pharmaceutical, Bajaj Finserv, HCL Technologies, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank were among the gainers. Tata Motors, PowerGrid, Axis Bank, State Bank of India, NTPC, Tata Steel and Adani Ports were the major laggards.
Republican Senators Scott Brown and Olympia J Snowe are the latest to announce their support to the bill.
Hillary Clinton has proposed measures including new taxes for trading to hold Wall Street accountable.
Passed by the Congress the sweeping financial overhaul legislation is considered to be a major legislative and political victory for the US President, whose poll numbers have experienced a downward slide this year.
The S&P and Dow dipped the most in a day since September 28.
If completed, this deal would place OpenAI among the most valuable private companies globally, alongside Musk's SpaceX and ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, according to The New York Times.
In 1910 the who's who of Wall Street met in total secrecy in an American town to work towards the first draft of the bill that would finally give the United States a central bank.
Investors' wealth tumbled by Rs 9 lakh crore on Friday, in tandem with a sharp decline in the domestic equity market, where the benchmark Sensex plunged 1,414 points following a bearish trend in global equities. Fresh tariff threats that ignited global trade war fears and relentless foreign fund outflows dented investor sentiment, analysts said.
In a pep talk to the captains of the industry, US President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday censured Wall Street executives and CEOs of Detroit's 'Big Three' automakers as "tone deaf" for squandering public funds amid the economic crisis and promised to return to "the ethic of responsibility".
'Clawback' provisions tied to federal bailout funds will be hotly contested. Right now only bankers who committed clear fraud are liable
Donald Trump is expected to sign a series of executive orders upon taking office, including those related to immigration, border security, energy and governance. These orders are intended to implement Trump's policy priorities, including restricting immigration, increasing energy production, and streamlining government operations. The executive orders will include declaring emergency on the southern border, preparing military deployment on the borders, classifying cartels as "foreign terrorist organisations", reinstating the "Remain in Mexico" policy, ending the "Catch and Release" policy, and declaring emergency related to energy. Trump is also expected to roll back some of the executive orders and actions of outgoing President Joe Biden, such as the Paris Climate agreement, lifting restrictions on fossil fuel production, and expanding domestic oil drilling.
An AP tweet, which an AP spokesman says was "bogus," had said there were two explosions at the White House.
Multiple homes, million-dollar art, their very own professional sports teams. Just a few of the ways successful financiers spend their paychecks.
The much-awaited trial of Raj Rajaratnam, founder of erstwhile Galleon Group, who has been indicted by Federal authorities in the biggest insider trading case on the Wall Street, began on Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court.
'We don't know which bus is coming next. I know for sure whatever bus comes next, it will miss that too.'
Defending champion Magnus Carlsen was disqualified from the World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2024 in Wall Street, New York, on Saturday for violating FIDE's dress code.
US President Barack Obama has claimed victory as the Senate voted to end debate on a massive Wall Street overhaul package, which is said to be the most sweeping reform of the country's financial regulatory system since the Great Depression.
The new circuit breaker rules have been proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, National Securities Exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
US President Barack Obama has released his plan to reform Wall Street. A look...
UBS Wealth Management Americas, Bank of America's Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley all employ several retired Olympic athletes.
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