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Goldman Sachs hearing: latest news

Refresh this page for the latest updates. Times are given in US EST By Alan Rappeport 3:13pm – The committee has excused the witnesses after an exhaustive array of questioning. The Goldman witnesses...

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Blankfein at the Senate hearing into Goldman Sachs

Times are given in US EST. By Alan Rappeport 8:42pm – And nearly 11 hours after the hearings began, that’s a wrap. 8:35pm – The audience appears to be thinning in the meeting room. Mr Levin is giving...

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The SEC’s strange timing over Goldman

By Brooke Masters, chief regulation correspondent UPDATE: It turns out that the Deparment of Justice asked for the file. The SEC didn’t make the referral. The DoJ request came after 62 members of...

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Live blog: Jimmy Cayne, ex Bear Stearns, at FCIC

By Alan Rappeport, economics and business reporter This page should update automatically every few minutes 2:35pm – 10 minute break until the next panel. 2:32pm – It does seem that your firm and other...

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Live blog: Christopher Cox, ex SEC, at the FCIC

By Alan Rappeport, economics and business reporter This page should update automatically every few minutes 5:41pm – Meeting adjourned. 5:40pm – The Commission has been going in circles for a little...

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Ben Bernanke at the FCIC: live blog

Alan Rappeport, an economics and business reporter for the FT, will provide rolling coverage of Ben Bernanke's questioning by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission panel today. Alan's coverage on...

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Ben Bernanke at the FCIC: live blog, part 2

Ben Bernanke at the FCIC: live blog, part 2 Continue reading »

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The Murdoch family on the psychologist’s couch

By Ben Fenton In an extended Vanity Fair piece that people who know the Murdoch family say is “horrifying in its level of detail” and “strikingly accurate in most respects”, Sarah Ellison has laid out...

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Elon Musk: from electric cars to Mars

The co-founder of PayPal and Tesla, and founder of SpaceX talks to the FT’s John Gapper and Daniel Garrahan about electric cars for the mass market and putting people on Mars, at the UK launch of his...

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Women in Business: International Women’s Day

The UN theme for International Women’s Day on Saturday is: Equality for women is progress for all. One glance at the FT graphic on women in senior management, published on Friday, suggests this...

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Private jets for furry trust-funders

According to OneSky Jets, a private jet charter company in the US, 15 per cent of its customers say their main reason for chartering a jet is to fly their dog, cat or other pet around. I have observed...

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Jim Rogers responds to my bullishness

I got a quick response to my Saturday column below from Jim Rogers, the investor who featured in it. I am posting it with his permission because I think it is of wider interest: “Great article! A...

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Wire fraud: a legal non-expert writes

My colleague Martin Wolf has addressed the guilty plea of the NatWest Three to wire fraud, possibly in return for serving jail sentences in Britain, with a spendidly coruscating attack on the plea...

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FT video: Sants quits as head of UK financial regulator

Hector Sants has resigned as head of the UK’s Financial Services Authority. Brooke Masters, the FT’s chief regulation correspondent, talks about the future of regulation in the UK. Read more:Read more

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Google’s EU troubles play into Microsoft’s hands

By Maija Palmer, writing on the FT’s tech blog It was only a matter of time before Brussels began looking at an antitrust complaint against Google. Murmurings of discontent about the dominant search...

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Lehman report: Further reading – updated

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The Lehman perp walk

From the FTdotcomment blog: For those baffled by all the talk of repos, accounting rules and hidden leverage, a quick round-up of those against whom the court-appointed Anton Valukas, “examiner” of...

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Rio Tinto wants to move on from dispute with China

By Richard McGregor, the FT’s former Beijing bureau chief The long-running case involving the four executives of mining giant, Rio-Tinto, arrested in China last year reached a dramatic climax in...

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Google chooses Chinese filters over self-censorship

From the FT’s tech blog How would you rather see the internet – strained through a filter or mangled by a censor? With its attempt to score an end-run round the Chinese authorities today, Google is...

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Who was that invisible (and familiar) man?

Our old friend, the person familiar with the situation, has been hard at work in the past few days. He (or she, since we do not know his or her identity) has popped up all over the place. In The Wall...

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