Posts Tagged ‘Overseas’

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Once again, investors will focus their attention abroad this week on the crises in Japan and Libya.
Stocks took a beating last week as the tragic Japanese earthquake quickly became a potential nuclear catastrophe, sending investors fleeing into safer investments. The Dow fell 1.5% last week while the S&P 500 fell [...]
According to various sources, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to use new financial laws to pursue credit-rating fraud initiated overseas. This decision came after SEC dropped a fraud case against Moody’s Corp citing uncertainty over its authority to bring the case in the United States.
The SEC’s investigation found that a Moody’s [...]
