Uploaded by FinancialNewsOnline on Mar 16, 2012
This is what's in the news for Friday
March 16, 2012. The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. and EU regulators
are investigating Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) for bypassing privacy settings of
millions of users of Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) Safari browser, sources say.
The Wall Street Journal also reports the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission plans to expand day-to-day monitoring of the commodities and
futures markets, targeting high-speed trading firms. Reuters reports
The explosive Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) resignation letter has increased
pressure on U.S. regulators to quickly put in place a tough version of
the Volcker rule. Bloomberg reports highly indebted Italy paid $3.4B to
Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) in January to unwind derivative contracts from
the 1990s that backfired, sources say. Finally, Bloomberg also reports a
Supreme Court ruling on whether the U.S. health care law is
constitutional won’t stop market forces transforming how Americans get
their medical care, says Cigna (CI) CEO David Cordani,
