Governance/Regulation & Compliance

Competition regulators look at whether deals involving Apple, Starbucks.

As banks boost defenses, hackers craft new types of attacks.

Price tag announced as Senate discusses using repatriation tax break to fund highways.

As Senate investigators consider risks of high-speed trading, SEC and CFTC prepare plans to rein in computerized and algorithmic trades.

Large speculators were net short nearly 82,000 futures contracts, and VIX is near its all-time low.

Systems promoted by regulators to improve transparencysuch as soon-to-be-implemented FINRA announcements of corporate debt pricingalso wipe out traders' profits.