The Securities and Exchange Commission has voted unanimously to abolish so-called naked access to stock markets and require brokers to check trades before they are made. “The rule approved today prohibits broker-dealers from providing customers with ‘unfiltered’ or ‘naked’ access to an exchange,” the agency said on Wednesday, while mandating that brokers “put in place [...]
Bristol Palin may need some of Mom’s help getting votes after taking several dance steps back on story night of the ABC show “Dancing With the Stars.” Monday’s next-to-last performance is definitely a downer after she tied for third place in Week 2. Bristol scored 19 out of 30 points while performing a dance apparently [...]
American politics has an August tradition: Incumbents and challengers fan through the nation claiming credit for the good they’ve done, blaming the other side for all manner of horribles — and then blaming each other for the “blame game.” Guess which strategy generally catches the most traction with voters? Trying to cash an electoral check [...]
The way the GOP nominates its candidate for president will be changed dramatically under a resolution passed Friday by the Republican National Committee. The proposal will move primaries to later dates and require many states to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis, reducing the chance that the nominating process could end early if a [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday by a vote of 13-6. All 12 Democrats on the committee supported Kagan, as did Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Six Republicans voted against her nomination. “There’s plenty of reasons for a conservative to vote no, but there’s also one [...]
The House has approved the final version of a bill that makes sweeping changes in the way Wall Street firms and most American financial institutions do business. The conference report of the Wall Street reform legislation passed the House Wednesday night on a mostly party line vote of 237 to 192, with all Democrats and [...]
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