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Investor group calls on SEC to review change in JPMorgan voting

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:14  |  Published in US NEWS
Investor group calls on SEC to review change in JPMorgan voting

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase & Co cut off polling information to the bank's opponents.

The Council of Institutional Investors , which represents managers of pensions, endowments, and foundations with more than $3 trillion of assets total, said in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission that votes at companies'

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Dow, S&P end at records in Wall Street's fourth week of gains

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:12  |  Published in US NEWS
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks continued their climb into

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Stocks finish higher for fourth straight week

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:11  |  Published in US NEWS
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The Dow Jones industrial average , S&P 500 and Nasdaq all ended higher Friday, with the Dow and S&P 500 finishing at record levels. For the week, the S&P 500 added 2%, the Dow rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq advanced 1.7%.

Friday's gains came after a measure of consumer sentiment rose to its highest level in nearly six years. Separately, a report on leading economic indicators bounced

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GOP hopes IRS scandal will snag health care law

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:10  |  Published in US NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) —

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A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:05  |  Published in US NEWS
A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus

NEW YORK (AP) — It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering.

Facebook , the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

Then came the IPO, and it flopped. Facebook's stock finished its first day of trading just 23

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Gitmo costs $900K/prisoner

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 15:01  |  Published in US NEWS

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US slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 14:53  |  Published in US NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The

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Record Powerball jackpot inspires office pools

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 14:49  |  Published in US NEWS

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Oil price probe widens, senator wants Justice Department help

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 14:46  |  Published in US NEWS
Fuel pumps are seen at a Shell petrol station in London

By Simon Falush and Timothy Gardner

LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A European probe into possible oil price manipulation expanded with the investigation of a small niche trading house in the Netherlands and a key U.S. senator on Friday called for the Justice Department to join the investigation.

Dutch trading house Argos Energies , a mid-sized trading company that deals in physical oil products and owns storage facilities, was visited by inspectors from the European Commission on

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Ark. abortion law blocked for now

Written by  |  Friday, 17 May 2013 14:46  |  Published in US NEWS

By Joe Sutton , CNN

updated 2:07 PM EDT, Fri May 17, 2013

(CNN) -- A federal judge on Friday ordered a preliminary injunction blocking an Arkansas law that would ban abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy, a court official told CNN on Friday.

The official spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock, Arkansas, ordered the injunction amid a challenge by the American

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