Posted on 30 April 2011. Tags: Anti-Trust, Bank of America Corporation, Barclays Bank, Citigroup, Credit Default Swap, Crédit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank, European Commission, Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS
Via the Financial Times today: The European Commission has opened sweeping antitrust investigations into a collection of the biggest players in the credit default swaps market, including ICE, the industry’s leading clearing house. The investigations, launched by Joaquín Almunia, the competition commissioner, open a new chapter in the commission’s attempts to regulate a group […]
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Posted on 06 June 2007. Tags: Anti-Trust, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods
   The Wall Street Journal has a piece today about the Federal Trade Commission’s suit against Whole Foods to block its purchase of Wild Oats Markets. But, inside the story is this revealing little nugget: The challenge would be one of the few brought under the Bush administration, which has broadly interpreted antitrust law to […]
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