  | | | | (Reuters) - Joan Fee is just the kind of customer the online photo industry is hoping for when it offers free prints and photo books. The 55-year-old personal assistant from Morro Bay, California, saw an email a couple of weeks ago offering a photo book for just the price of shipping, and she bit. | | |  | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - You may be smitten with the Facebook story and debating whether or not to buy stock when the company goes public. But if you haven't studied the history of IPOs, you may be jumping into the purchase with unrealistic expectations and flawed biases. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Of the 18 banks that challenged bond insurer MBIA's restructuring in 2009, only two -- Bank of America and Societe Generale -- remain. On Monday, unless there's a last-minute settlement this weekend, they will finally go to trial in New York State Supreme Court to argue that state insurance regulators should not have approved MBIA's split, which stripped $5 billion in capital from MBIA's crippled structured-finance insurance business. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge funds and other money managers slashed their bullish bets on commodities by 20 percent, or nearly $18 billion, as prices fell to four-month lows last week, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday. | | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - Chesapeake Energy Corp sought to calm Wall Street worries about its financial position, telling investors that it was confident it would complete assets sales to plug a funding gap estimated at $10 billion this year. | | | | | | (Reuters) - A federal court judge threw out a lawsuit by Charles Schwab Corp that had sought to stop its regulator from disciplining the brokerage for trying to take away customers' rights to sue it in class actions. | | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors poured the most money into bond funds globally in over a decade while fleeing equity funds in renewed worries over the strength of the global economic recovery and spillover effects of the eurozone crisis, data from EPFR Global showed on Friday. | | | |  | | | | BOSTON (Reuters) - If you thought four years at Princeton would leave you saddled with more debt than the University of Michigan, think again. | | |  | | | | NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co lost $15 billion in market value and a notch in its credit ratings on Friday while a chorus of regulators and politicians reacted to its surprise $2 billion trading loss by demanding stiffer oversight for the banking industry. | | | |  | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Your annual Social Security benefit statement, which provides an important annual reminder and explanation of benefits, has moved online. | | | | |  |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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