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Latest Business from the New York Post Online Edition, which delivers the Post's world-renowned gossip, best sports in town, and more.
- Animal House pals in fraud
The feds yesterday nailed a pair of fraternity brothers, who later went on to work at TPG Capital and Lazard Freres, for their part in an alleged insider-trading scheme that netted a profit of $500,000. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed ... - Judge OKs $50M Lehman bonuses
Lehman Brothers' plan to pay $50 million in bonuses to employees handling derivatives contracts was approved by a bankruptcy court judge, who said the payments provide essential incentives. Lehman, which is liquidating in bankruptcy, asked Bankrupt... - JPM Chase sells 4 NY Plaza
Harbor Group International, a Norfolk, Va.-based real estate company, is in contract to buy 4 New York Plaza from JPMorgan Chase for about $108.9 million or $99 a square foot. Sources told The Post that Harbor Group is working with Josh Zamir's Ca... - $2.2B bargain
Microsoft is paying a relative bargain $2.2 billion fine for its lucrative decade of hogging the world's Internet searches -- a controversial strategy that helped the software giant walk away with $400 billion in sales. Though the company's ambitio... - FTC probe hits Intel's monopoly
The US Federal Trade Commission accused Intel Corp., the world's largest computer-chip maker, of illegally using its dominant market position for a decade to stifle competition and bolster its monopoly. The complaint, to be heard by an FTC administ... - Treasury delays its Citi sale
Citigroup Inc. said it is selling a huge chunk of its stock at a steep discount to raise the cash it needs to repay bailout funds and free itself from government support. But the government backed out of selling any of its 34 percent Citi stake, a... - New SEC Madoff rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved final rules yesterday requiring some investment advisers who manage customer funds to undergo annual surprise audits. The rule is prompted by the Bernard Madoff scandal, requiring certain SEC-registe... - EMI's Capitol idea
EMI's precarious financial situation may cost it a lucrative distribution deal with red-hot independent label S-Curve Records, The Post has learned. S-Curve, which is home to such acts as Care Bears on Fire, Diana Birch, Joss Stone, Fountains of W... - Ga-Zynga! Online firm worth $3B
Facebook game developer Zynga is now thought to be more valuable than Twitter after raising $180 million from a Russian investor group. The San Francisco-based social game developer announced yesterday that Digital Sky Technologies, which also own... - Banking law revived
US Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) proposed reinstating the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act that split commercial and investment banking to rein in Wall Street firms in response to the financial crisis. McCain and Cant... - The footnote that killed Nov. retail sales
WASHINGTON announced last week that retail sales rose a very healthy 1.3 percent during November from the previous month. Wall Street told us to applaud and the media, right on cue, proclaimed that the consumer was back in business. The troubl... - Iconix hops away from Playboy deal
Playboy Enterprises is looking more like Flopsy and Mopsy than the Energizer bunny. Shares in the empire built by Hugh Hefner sank 10 percent yesterday after licensing company Iconix broke off talks to acquire the iconic adult-entertainment company... - Lohan lightning
The CEO of down-and-out fashion label Emanuel Ungaro finally resigned following the recent outcry over his hiring of actress Lindsay Lohan as an artistic adviser. Despite howls of derision over Lohan's trashy clothing designs -- which included hea... - BofA names chief
Bank of America last night ended its protracted search for a replacement for outgoing CEO Ken Lewis, naming Consumer Banking President Brian Moynihan as chief executive. Both Moynihan, 50, and risk chief Greg Curl, 61, emerged as front-runners thi... - Business briefs
Big Ben On the day Time mag azine named Ben Ber nanke its Man of the Year, two senators, Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), said they would oppose his renomination as chairman of the Federal Reserve.Debt ceiling The House voted to... - Buddhist monk eyes opening kung fu world
The sacred temple where kung fu was born some 1,500 years ago to spawn centuries of undefeated masters is at last surrendering to the almighty buck. Critics were kicking and screaming in outrage yesterday over plans to sell stock in the ancient mo...