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Securities
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Latest News in Securities
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July 20, 2018
Acadia Hit With Securities Suit Over Drug Linked To Deaths
An Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. shareholder slapped the biopharmaceutical company with a putative securities fraud class action in California federal court Thursday, claiming the company inflated its stock price by hiding safety risks and downplaying reports of deaths connected to its treatment for hallucinations and delusions.
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July 20, 2018
IT Firm Investor To Pay $450K In SEC Judgment Over Fraud
An investor in a bankrupt Illinois information technology company agreed on Thursday to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $450,000 after he allegedly aided former top company executives in a fraud scheme to embezzle $4.1 million.
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July 20, 2018
House Panel Wants To Grill Puerto Rico Gov. On PREPA Crisis
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources asked the governor of Puerto Rico on Thursday to send an administration official to speak at an upcoming panel hearing on mismanagement at the island's troubled electric utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, amid mass turnover at the top.
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July 20, 2018
Banks Say Firm’s Claims Don’t Belong In Swaps Antitrust MDL
Eleven banks accused by fintech firm trueEX LLC of illegally boycotting its interest rate swaps platform and funneling business to an exchange they operated asked a Manhattan federal judge on Thursday to dismiss the suit, saying trueEX’s case is weaker than those of similar businesses in the multidistrict litigation.
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July 20, 2018
Chancery Court Tosses Investor Challenge To Energy Co. Deal
A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Friday rejected a challenge by a shareholder in Earthstone Energy Inc. to the company’s acquisition of Bold Energy III LLC, saying the shareholder failed to show private equity firm EnCap Investments LP forced the company into a raw deal.
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