WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's financial overhaul law is nearly a year old. For congressional Republicans, the fight to weaken it is just starting. Wary of trying to repeal the entire statute and being portrayed as Wall Street's protectors ...

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NEW YORK CITY — Ross Mandell has embraced his billing as Wall Street's "bad boy" investment manager — a shameless self-promoter who brags about how he over-indulged in fast-lane excesses before getting sober, bulking up and becoming rich during the dot-com binge in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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WASHINGTON — Employers in May added the fewest jobs in eight months, and the unemployment rate inched up to 9.1 percent. The weakening job market raised concerns about an economy hampered by gas prices and the Japanese nuclear disaster.

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ALBANY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking records from three major Wall Street banks as part of a broad investigation into the mortgage crisis that fueled the recession, an official familiar with the issue said Tuesday.

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CANTON, Mass. — The parent company of Dunkin' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins says it plans to go public, confirming weeks of Wall Street speculation. Dunkin' Brands Group Inc. didn't say how many shares it will offer or when the offering will take place.

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NEW YORK CITY — The secretly taped conversations aired at the insider trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, a one-time billionaire hedge fund boss, have given jurors a colorful dose of the go-big-or-go-home mentality at Wall Street firms.

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After nearly six years at the helm of Eastman Kodak Co., Antonio Perez is reminding Wall Street that the photography pioneer is still a year away from turning itself back into a reliably profitable company.

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HONOLULU — Among the first announcements President Barack Obama will make upon returning from his Hawaiian vacation is his choice for top economic adviser, a decision that could signal a new direction for the administration ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Attorney General Eric Holder has confirmed that the U.S. attorney's office in the southern district of New York is conducting a criminal investigation of Wall Street.

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ALBANY — Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who cracked down on insider abuses on Wall Street, said Wednesday that the new federal push against potential insider trading has the hallmarks of important work, if the innovative approach can prove the communication is illegal.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators have turned up the heat on Wall Street, raiding three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading. The FBI on Monday searched the New York offices of Level Global Investors LP ...

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ALBANY — State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says cash bonuses on Wall Street may be even larger this year than after last year's record performance for the financial center.

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