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After a computer mishap led to a $440 million loss at Knight Capital Group, the SEC is speeding efforts to require exchanges to place safeguards on their systems.

The former advisor pleaded guilty in an alleged pyramid scheme involving millions from a pension fund for Venezuela's state oil workers.

The halt of vital rescue loans to the troubled nation could leave the government unable to pay pensions, salaries or service its debt, and leave the eurozone.

Mayors say that the proposal, designed to steer cities, counties and school districts from bankruptcy, won't help fix rising pensions and worker payrolls

An appeals court has ruled that a former employee was dismissed solely because he was 65, as is the practice in France, where he was hired.

The way to prevent more Madoff-type looting is for professionals to regulate their own industry, the congressman writes.