The charges against Goldman are the first brought by a new SEC investigative group looking into the structured products market.
Such businesses, with their built-in connection to the Hispanic consumer, are serious competition to many industries looking for a toehold into the market.
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Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's office in Brooklyn and investigators from the FBI are looking into whether Ribotsky defrauded investors as the stock market fell last year, The Wall Street Journal has reported.
After falling more than 16% in two days, investors jumped back into the market looking for bargains.
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His company, Naga, which has offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, specializes in providing support for investors looking for a way into the China market.
The company has tried to create new enthusiasm with with efforts to expand into hepatitis C, the viral liver disease that is looking like the next big drug market, and into other areas such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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The joint private-sector forum introduced today will specifically be looking into clearing and settlement systems, market liquidity and the development of new yuan-denominated products.
Adding to the difficulties, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has been looking into Groupon's accounting and disclosures to the stock market.
"It'll be interesting to see whether the cash that's sitting there looking to get invested uses this as a reason to tiptoe back into the market, or if it's another reason to say, 'It's over, ' again, " he said.
Gold and silver traders and investors were digesting news Wednesday that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is looking into whether major banks are manipulating London gold and silver market prices via the London gold and silver morning and afternoon fixes.
The library already has received about 400 requests from researchers all over the world looking into topics ranging from the rise of citizen journalism to tracking vaccination rates to predicting stock market activity.
Regulators looking into the activity said it was too early to tell if the tweet was intended to disrupt the market.
The New York Times ran an article yesterday looking at the mixed performance and prospects of the global art market and why money has flowed into it recently.
And if confidence starts to droop or uncertainty creeps into the mix, well, all those Wall Street analysts looking for big gains in the stock market this year might begin to rethink their view.
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Looking ahead, managers say capital continues to pour into the market from all quarters as investors look for floating-rate, wide-margin opportunities.
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Workday could be the blockbuster IPO that startups, venture capital investors and bankers are looking for to put a charge back into the tech IPO market.
The secret to Warren Buffett's success is old-fashioned value investing - not looking for the quick gain from speculative stock market movements, but putting the fund's money into undervalued but promising companies in slightly unfashionably industries.
PLC, went looking for partners to help it respond to Apple's entry into the phone market.
Looking ahead, the company said it looks for the palladium market to move into a fundamental deficit again in 2012.
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With Italy and Spain looking like they will need a European Central Bank backstop to keep them from defaulting on some government expenditures, and France looking like it is next in line for a downgrade, the market went into a tailspin.
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"In the short term, people are looking for excuses to short or sell into a weaker market, " said Bertram Lai, head of Hong Kong and China research at CIMB.
Isaac Barchas, director of the technology incubator at the University of Texas at Austin, says entrepreneurs looking to break into an untested or emerging market should consider taking a wait-and-see approach.
"There's a lot of money looking for a home and people are finally deciding the bond market is done and moving money into equities, " said Edward Simmons, managing director of Maine-based financial advisors HighTower.
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Lazear pointedly stated that he expects strong growth due to high productivity and low taxes, adding that "two trends are most important when looking at last year's economic picture and the scene as we move into 2007"--the labor market and export growth.
The FTC is looking into whether Elan's only listed patent on the drug has unfairly kept cheap, copycat generic versions from reaching the market.
At the same time, Nokia is looking to penetrate the U.S. smartphone market, which is crucial for it since success here generally translates into positive consumer sentiment in other markets.
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