Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:10:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Securities and Exchange Commission Inspector General David Kotz testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this September 22, 2011 file photo. In early 2009, federal investigators finally closed in on Houston financier R. Allen Stanford. For more than a decade and a half, Stanford had run an alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme from his offshore bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. U.S. authorities had been nosing around Stanford's empire but hesitated to open a full-blown probe. To match Insight SEC/STANFORD REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Chairman Ronald Arculli (R) ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:30:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Chairman Ronald Arculli (R) and CEO Charles Li hit a gong on the first trading day after Lunar New Year holidays at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange January 26, 2012. Asian shares and the euro stayed firmed on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates low for a longer-than-expected period, providing ample liquidity to help spur growth. REUTERS/Bobby Yip (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) SOCIETY)
Former Pacific Stock Exchange President R. Warren Langley (L) ...
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:30:03 +0100 (Reuters) - Former Pacific Stock Exchange President R. Warren Langley (L) speaks to an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator near an entrance of the Wells Fargo headquarters during a protest aimed to disrupt the city's financial district in San Francisco, California January 20, 2012. Weeks after their eviction from several area encampments, anti-Wall Street activists in San Francisco, including a former Pacific Stock Exchange president, are vowing to disrupt the city's financial district on Friday with a series of protests. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)
An employee of Athens Stock Exchange opens a door as a chart ...
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:40:06 +0100 (AP) - An employee of Athens Stock Exchange opens a door as a chart with stock prices, indicating gains, is seen foreground in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. Financial markets were subdued Thursday as investors awaited developments in Greece's debt-reduction talks with private creditors, a day after the International Monetary Fund revealed it was looking to get its hands on another half a trillion dollars to help it shore up a fragile global economy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:40:22 +0100 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Computer hackers disrupted access to the websites of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and Israel's flag carrier El Al Airlines on Monday, officials at both companies said. Stock trading and flights operated normally despite the cyber assaults, which occurred as Israeli media reported that pro-Palestinian hackers had threatened at the weekend to shut down both these websites. "There has been an attack by hackers on the access routes to the (TASE) website. ... (Source: Reuters)
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