Securities regulators will announce Thursday a major enforcement action involving auction rate securities, the Securities and...

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Already struggling Wall Street firms, which are currently faced with billions in losses as a result of the current credit crisis, now have to contend with and account for a not entirely new problem, auction-rate securities or ARS. Auction...
Market Scan Vidya Ram, 08.08.08, 9:35 AM ET LONDON - A day after Merrill Lynch and Citigroup said they would pay billions to settle claims of improperly selling auction-rate securities to their clients, UBS is going one step...
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Two major Wall Street firms on Thursday offered to buy back more than $17 billion of troubled auction-rate securities that they had marketed as being as safe and liquid as cash, moving quickly to contain the legal fallout from the credit...