Sep 29 Tesla CEO Elon Musk, company settle fraud suit for $40M By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the electric car company have agreed to pay a total of $40 million and make a series of concessions to settle a government lawsuit. Continue reading
Sep 27 SEC sues Elon Musk for false statements about taking Tesla private By Tom Krisher, Associated Press U.S. securities regulators have filed a complaint against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for falsely claiming on Twitter last month that funding was secured to take electric car company private. Continue reading
Jan 04 Trump names Wall Street lawyer Clayton as SEC chairman By Marcy Gordon, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday chose a Wall Street attorney with experience in corporate mergers and public stock launches as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Continue reading
Nov 14 Watch News Wrap: Rep. Keith Ellison announces run for DNC chief By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the race for chair of the Democratic National Committee heated up as the Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim member of Congress, announced he’s running, joining former former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. Also, in… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch 7:02 Struggles for power plant with White House backing raise concerns about clean coal By PBS News Hour Clean coal technology is key to the Obama administration’s plans for combating climate change. But a high-profile power plant, once a poster child for clean coal’s promise, has run billions over budget in construction costs, faces federal investigations and allegations… Continue watching
Jun 05 Watch SEC seeks to rein in unfair practices of high-frequency trading By PBS News Hour The chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission laid out new rules to regulate high-frequency trading. Critics have argued that high-speed, computer trading gives a small group of traders an enormous advantage over the general public. Judy Woodruff talks to… Continue watching
Apr 09 SEC charges Hewlett-Packard for international bribes By Justin Scuiletti Hewlett-Packard will pay more than $108 million in a settlement agreement after the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company Tuesday with bribing government officials to obtain public contracts. Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch News Wrap: Goldman Sachs Agrees to Settle Civil Fraud Charges In other news Thursday, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges brought by the SEC. Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch Goldman Sachs Could Face Sanctions, Fines After SEC Fraud Charge The SEC charged powerful investment bank Goldman Sachs with defrauding investors in the runup to the subprime mortgage crisis. Jim Lehrer talks to a Washington Post reporter about the charges. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch News Wrap: Jobs Bill Clears Senate With 11 GOP Votes In other news Wednesday, a jobs bill passed the Senate with some bipartisan support and a new economic report indicates that wholesale prices plunged in February because a big drop in energy prices offset higher food costs. Continue watching