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Asian stocks rallied; Dollar headed for first weekly advance since December
February 10th, 2017
Dollar headed for first weekly advance since December S&P rose to record, Treasuries fell after tax cut promises Asian stocks rallied while the yen and government bonds slumped after U.S. President Donald Trump promised a plan to overhaul business ...
Asian Bonds Gain, Kiwi Falls, Yen Slipped
February 9th, 2017
Asian Bonds Gain While China Shares Extend Rally Kiwi falls after New Zealand central bank holds rates Euro-dollar volatility surges amid French election buildup Political uncertainty continues to drive financial markets, with Asian bonds following a rally in Treasuries. ...
CFTC General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus to Depart Agency
January 27th, 2017
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today announced that General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus will depart the agency. Mr. Marcus joined the agency in 2011 as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, and ...
Robots Are Taking Divorce Lawyers’ Jobs, Too
July 7th, 2016
Online tools that are cheaper than lawyers improve access to justice. Buyers and sellers on EBay use the site’s automated dispute-resolution tool to settle 60 million claims every year. Now, some countries are deploying similar technology to let people ...
Moore Stephens Wins Key Ruling on Audit Opinions
May 24th, 2016
Moore Stephens’ Hong Kong firm won a victory in a New York federal appeals court on a case that could have a far-reaching impact on class-action lawsuits involving audit reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
Why Japan’s plan to raise the number of lawyers it hasn’t worked out
April 4th, 2016
Japan is struggling with an unlikely problem: Its people aren’t litigious enough. Fifteen years ago, the nation kicked off a plan to double the number of lawyers. Officials thought they could breathe dynamism into society by mimicking the Western ...
Justice Department asks judge to revisit NY iPhone case
March 8th, 2016
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday sought to overturn a ruling which protects Apple from unlocking an iPhone in a New York drug case. A magistrate judge in Brooklyn last week ruled that the Justice Department could not compel ...
Brokers and Big Oil Fight Obama Rush to Make Rules by May Cutoff
March 8th, 2016
Rules imposed on or after May 17 have higher risk of repeal Mandates touch on investment advice and workplace safety The Obama administration is in a mad rush to draft regulations before the clock runs out and an obscure ...
Apple lawyer, FBI director face off in Congress on iPhone encryption
March 1st, 2016
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will make their cases before a congressional panel on Tuesday regarding a court order to force the technology company to give the FBI data from the iPhone belonging ...
Legal fight over the shape of the iPhone
January 21st, 2016
Tech Giants Back Samsung at Supreme Court in Apple Patent Fight A legal fight over the shape of the iPhone could have big repercussions, a tech industry trade group warns. A trade group for Google, Microsoft, and other big ...
