New York prosecutors are widening their investigation into the manner in which Goldman Sachs marketed certain mortgage-linked securities before the financial crisis... more
Britain welcomes the decision to suspend Libya from the United Nations Human Rights Council as the international community ups the pressure on Colonel Gaddafi's regime... more
US Senate report into the bond affair involving Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre will highlight alleged conflicts of interest in the bank’s dealing with clients, according to reports... more
US senators' interest in the Lockerbie bomber's release has 'waxed and waned', a spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond said ahead of a meeting on the issue... more
String of high profile British witnesses who refused to testify at a US Senate hearing into the release of the Lockerbie bomber face accusations of 'stonewalling'... more
Billionaire former eBay boss Meg Whitman could be California’s first woman governor after winning the Republican nomination for November’s mid-term elections in America... more
Barack Obama celebrates victory after sweeping banking reforms designed to ensure the American people never again pay “for Wall Street's mistakes” are passed by the US Senate... more
The row over Goldman Sachs is set to become even more intensely political as US senators brief reporters ahead of their grilling of chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and alleged fraudulent trader Fabio Tourre... more
Banking: The Swiss government says it will stay away from a US Senate hearing on tax havens as the US taxman continues the campaign to force UBS to turn over account details of 52,000 American customers... more
Caroline Kennedy pulled out of her bid for the US Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, and once held by her uncle, Robert F Kennedy, shocking her supporters... more
The addition of tax breaks for niche industries to the $700 billion US bank bail-out has raised hopes the rescue deal could be passed by Congress... more
George Soros has denounced America's $700 billion bank bail out as "ill-conceived" despite relief across the world after US senators voted in favour of the deal... more
Resources giant Rio Tinto has joined US utilities to urge Washington to spend £10bn on a technology they say has the best chance for cutting pollution linked to global warming... more
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