Financial Regulation
  • Investors Could Benefit from NYSE Bidding War

    By The Fiscal Times Staff

    Despite antitrust concerns and regulatory scrutiny, investors could benefit from a New York Stock Exchange merger with another exchange.

  • Business Groups Seek Swaps Exemption

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    A campaign by the business community to exempt financial swaps trading from the new Dodd-Frank reform law is heating up, but so far federal regulators are resisting the pressure.

  • Cigarette Ban Would Slash State Revenues

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    If the FDA decides to ban menthol cigarettes, experts say it would save many lives of young people and African-Americans while deeply cutting into states’ tobacco tax revenues.

  • Wall Street and Elizabeth Warren: Truce or Dare

    By Louis Peck, The Fiscal Times

    Elizabeth Warren says she is fighting to protect her fledgling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from attacks, so the outspoken Harvard law professor is waging a charm offensive with the banking...

  • A Messy Fight Ahead for Netflix, TV Titans

    By Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post

    By any measure, Netflix is having a marquee year. It has 20 million subscribers, way up from 12 million just a year ago. Its stock has tripled in that time. During periods of peak Internet use, a...