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First results from Iraq’s parliamentary election showed the prime minister and his secular rival locked in an extremely tight contest Thursday amid fraud allegations by rival parties and a… More
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Pittsburgh, PA-based specialty apparel retailer, American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO), is shuttering its MARTIN + OSA banner, including its 28 stores and online business. The company expects to conclude the liquidation of the MARTIN + OSA stores, which… More
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The Executive Office of Health and Human Services for Massachusetts signed a lease for 114,451 square feet of office space at HarborSouth Tower in Quincy. MassHealth and other related divisions will occupy floors four through eight at 100 Hancock St…. More
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Vikram S. Pandit laid out ambitious targets for growth, saying the bank’s return on assets should rise to 1.25 to 1.5 percent in the near future, from the current 1.15 percent. More
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It’s not clear that there was a crime committed in the fall of Lehman Brothers. But the court-appointed examiner’s report makes it clear that there was potentially improper financial engineering going on. (Read the first five volumes of the report on DealBook.) More
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The European Union rebutted criticism by the United States of its plans to tighten the rules on hedge funds, even as Britain sought to water down the regulation to safeguard its own financial sector. More
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From Bits: Betaworks, an incubator for early-stage technology start-ups in the meatpacking district of Manhattan, is announcing on Thursday that it raised million in venture financing in a Series B investment round. More
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Elliott Associates denied late Thursday that it was planning to sell any of Novell’s businesses if Novell accepts its unsolicited billion bid, disputing a report that an asset sale was being considered. More
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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts appointed four top executives within its six-year-old asset management arm, tasked with heading its distressed credit and and leveraged finance operations. More
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Peter J. Henning of DealBook’s White Collar Watch questions whether investors who placed their money with Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford should get better treatment from the government than anyone else who falls prey to a financial scam. More
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Gary Gensler, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chided Wall Street on Thursday for resisting calls to make over-the-counter derivatives markets more transparent. More
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Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, said Thursday that he would unveil a new version of his financial regulatory bill on Monday. More
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is joining the American International Group in a loss-sharing agreement that is part of the insurer’s sale of its American Life Insurance Company unit to MetLife, Bloomberg News reports. More
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Mohamed A. El-Erian, whose company runs the world’s biggest mutual fund, said in an Op-Ed in The Financial Times that deteriorating public finances may affect the global economy more than is currently realized. More
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First Data, the credit card processor, said on Thursday that its chief executive has stepped down to take an advisory role at corporate owner Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. More
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Portugal sold more bonds than initially planned Wednesday — at a lower borrowing cost than the previous similar issue — suggesting markets were becoming more confident after the country outlined its strategy to cut a ballooning fiscal gap, Reuters reported. More
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has written to the European Commission warning that plans to regulate hedge funds and private equity firms could cause tensions with Washington, The Financial Times reported. More
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Hedge-fund closings outpaced launches in 2009, the second year in a row that more funds shuttered than opened, Pensions & Investments reported, citing new data from Hedge Fund Research. More
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Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York attorney general, said he would appoint an independent counsel to take over his office’s investigation into two matters involving Gov. David A. Paterson.




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Protests by opponents of the prime minister appeared to delay the announcement of the preliminary results and could undermine public
acceptance of the outcome.




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