China to Balance
December 31st, 2011
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Insurance giant Aon has agreed to pay more than $16 million in fines to settle charges that its subsidiaries bribed foreign government officials, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday.
Aon will pay $14.5 million to the SEC and $1.7 million to the Department of Justice to settle alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices […]
The past 12 months in law and technology were exceptionally active, with legislative battles over privacy and copyright, near-continuous controversy at the CRTC, and an active Supreme Court of Canada docket. A look back at 2011 from A to Z:
A is for the Amazon one-click patent, which is at the centre of a long-running fight […]
AT&T Inc. and the Justice Department have agreed to put off their upcoming antitrust trial over the phone company’s proposed acquisition of smaller rival T-Mobile USA while the wireless carriers determine the fate of the deal.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle quickly approved their motion Monday to cancel their February trial and set a Jan. […]
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Back in the winter of 2009, when the stock market crash was near its bottom, an editor at the Post-Dispatch gave up in defeat.
“I couldn’t take it any more. I sold everything,” he told me. He had sold all the stock investments in his 401(k).
That put me in a quandary. Should I tell the fellow […]
European Union “negligence” is to blame for the financial crisis roiling the continent, said Turkey’s president Friday, contrasting the EU’s malaise with his country’s economic and political dynamism.
Gul also called for a revamping of the U.N. Security Council, suggesting its permanent members no longer reflected the shift in influence from the postwar equation when the […]
India’s ruling party faced a potentially damaging setback Sunday after an important coalition ally said the government had reversed its decision to throw open the country’s huge retail sector to foreign investors.
The government has not officially announced a change in its policy on foreign direct investment, but a reversal would be an embarrassment for the […]
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Egypt’s benchmark stock index is extending its gains for the third consecutive day, after landmark parliamentary elections eased investor sentiment about the country’s political instability.
The Egyptian Exchange’s EGX30 index was up about 1.25 percent by 1:15 p.m. local time on Thursday, climbing to 4,070 points. The index posted gains slightly under 1 percent on Wednesday […]