Listen to article (1 minute) Ford Motor is asking a Georgia court for a new trial, after a jury reached a $1.7 billion verdict against the auto maker last month involving a truck rollover accident tha...
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Crypto Investors Got Burned by Celsius. Then They Battled Back.
Cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network LLC attracted scores of people over the last five years who wanted to make money betting on bitcoin. After a crypto crash pushed the company into bankruptcy this ...
New York Suit Against Trump Mixes Routine Business Law, Uncommon Allegations
The New York attorney general’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump uses a common state business law to make allegations about property valuations, which lawyers say are rarely the focus of ...
Senators drill down on Zelle reimbursements, inflation and ‘uber-woke’ policies in bank CEO hearing
Democratic senators criticized banks for not serving consumers fairly while Republicans complained about liberal social agendas promoted by the same institutions, as chief executive officers of the co...
Dollar Hits 20-Year High After Russia Mobilizes More Troops
Text size Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of nuclear blackmail against Russia. Alexei Druzhinin/SPUTNIK/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. dollar rose to 20-year highs early Wednesday after R...
Nikola CEO Tells Jurors He Worried About Exaggerations by Company Founder Trevor Milton
Nikola CEO Mark Russell told a New York federal jury Monday that he had concerns about joining the electric-truck company because he believed its founder, Trevor Milton, “was prone to exaggeration in ...
Retired Couple Wins $5.2 Million Award From UBS Over YES Strategy
Two retirees won a $5.2 million arbitration award against UBS , which they accused of misrepresentation, unsuitability, and breach of fiduciary duty with regard to a complex options-trading strategy. ...
Ex-Morgan Stanley Advisor Pleads Guilty to $7 Million Fraud
A former Morgan Stanley advisor pleaded guilty on Thursday to wire fraud and money laundering as part of a $7 million fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice. Ex-advisor Shawn Edward Good...
Crypto poses threat to ‘financial stability’ of everyday Americans, feds warn
President Joe Biden’s administration expressed concern over recent developments in cryptocurrency markets and their impact on average Americans’ financial health as it introduced a series of reports F...
Nikola Founder Faces Securities-Fraud Trial Over Promises About Electric Trucks
Trevor Milton, the Nikola founder who enticed auto-industry leaders and investors with his promise for a revolution in electric trucks, faces a securities-fraud trial beginning this week on allegation...
She called herself the Mother Teresa of Florida small-business lending, but investigators say she was really running a $194 million Ponzi scheme
Johanna Garcia claimed her merchant cash-advance business was so helpful to small businesses in Florida that she was like the Catholic saint Mother Teresa. But to the 15,400 investors who sank $194.1 ...
Elizabeth Holmes wants a new trial, citing regrets from key witness against her
SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes requested a new trial Tuesday, asserting in a court filing that a key witness for the prosecution now regrets the role he played in her convicti...
Bed Bath & Beyond CFO who leapt to his death from New York skyscraper faced ‘pump and dump’ allegation just days earlier
Gustavo Arnal, the CFO of Bed Bath & Beyond who leapt to his death from a Manhattan skyscraper last week, had faced a “pump and dump” allegation less than two weeks earlier. On Friday Arnal fell t...
Samsung says personal data of some U.S. customers exposed in breach
Samsung Electronics Co. is warning some U.S. customers that their personal data was exposed in a recent breach. Samsung announced the breach in a brief statement late Friday, as Americans were about t...
Wells Fargo Fined $22 Million for Alleged Whistleblower Retaliation
Wells Fargo & Co. was fined more than $22 million by the U.S. Labor Department for allegedly firing a senior manager in its commercial banking unit after the employee reported concerns about misco...
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor Sued for Alleged Tax Fraud in Washington, D.C.
By Vicky Ge Huang and Richard Rubin Aug. 31, 2022 6:17 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) The District of Columbia attorney general sued Michael Saylor, the founder and chairman of software intellige...
Sears Gets Green Light to Wrap Up Bankruptcy Case After 4 Years
A bankruptcy judge signed off on a $180 million settlement of a Sears Holdings Corp. creditor lawsuit against former Chairman Edward S. Lampert and other executives, clearing the final hurdle for the ...
NewAge Says Cost of Internal Probe Contributed to Bankruptcy
NewAge Inc., a publicly traded seller of beverages, supplements and other health and wellness products, said its bankruptcy filing is due in part to the cost of an investigation into a potential viola...
3M’s Bankruptcy Setback Deepens Earplug Litigation Troubles
3M Co. had good reason to bet that it could use U.S. bankruptcy laws to shield itself from a mountain of personal-injury lawsuits filed over its allegedly defective military earplugs. But after a bank...
3M Is Denied Bankruptcy Shield Against Mass Earplug Claims
A bankruptcy judge declined on Friday to shield 3M Co. from continued litigation involving its military earplugs, a setback for the conglomerate’s attempt to shift the mass injury claims to a friendli...
Don’t panic about your 401(k)
I’ve been doing this—writing about the stock market and investments—for a quarter of a century. It’s been a heckuva turbulent ride, including Russian defaults, emerging market crises, dot-com disaster...