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UPDATE 2-Protesters picket Wells Fargo meeting, 24 arrested
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 - Police in riot gear arrested two dozen people on Tuesday as protesters with a huge inflated rat sought to disrupt a Wells Fargo & Co annual shareholder meeting to express anger over foreclosures, executive compensation and corporate taxes.
UPDATE 2-U.S. SEC charges credit rater Egan-Jones
WASHINGTON, April 24 - U.S. securities regulators on Tuesday charged credit-rating firm Egan-Jones and its president, Sean Egan, with making false statements in a 2008 application to the agency to rate certain securities.
Brazil's BTG Pactual prices unit within range in IPO
SAO PAULO, April 25 - BTG Pactual priced its initial public offering within the suggested price range on Tuesday, in a show of confidence in Brazil's biggest independent investment bank and its controlling shareholder, billionaire André Esteves.
Fugitive Swiss bank Wegelin forfeits $16 mln
April 24 - Wegelin & Co, the oldest Swiss private bank, has forfeited more than $16 million held in a UBS AG account, after in February becoming the first overseas bank indicted in the United States for allegedly helping U.S. taxpayers evade taxes.
NYMEX-Crude up a third day, extends gains after APIs
* Coming up: EIA oil data at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT) Wednesday NEW YORK, April 43 - U.S. crude oil futures extended gains in post-settlement trading on Tuesday after industry data showed that domestic crude stocks fell last week, defying the forecast in a Reuters poll for a stock build. Crude futures earlier settled modestly higher, helped by stronger U.S. equities and as the dollar weakened, both supportive factors. Trading was choppy, with gains almost wiped out late
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Is Social Security really "exhausted?" Not at all
CHICAGO - It's rare to see a federal official publicly beg reporters to get a story right, but the commissioner of the Social Security Administration seemed ready to get down on his hands and knees at a Monday press briefing. Michael Astrue was cautioning journalists not to scare the public about the meaning of the word "exhaustion."
ON THE MOVE-UBS lands adviser team from Wells Fargo
April 24 - UBS AG's American wealth management division said on Tuesday it landed a team of veteran advisers from Wells Fargo & Company's brokerage unit.