The chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is an expert on the financial instruments that figured largely in the 2008 crisis, is leaving his position for the private sector. The SEC announced Tuesday that James Overdahl will leave the agency at the end ...

Life Technologies Corp. Chairman and CEO Gregory Lucier's compensation fell 60 percent to just over $4.5 million in 2009 on a lack of stock awards, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing. In 2009, Lucier received a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former stock loan trader at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp in New York received well over $100,000 of cash kickbacks by steering orders to other brokerage firms, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's chief economist, James Overdahl, will be leaving at the end of the month, he said on Tuesday. Overdahl, who was in charge of the SEC's office of economic analysis before it was merged with another office, will be joining National Economic Research Associates. Before joining the SEC, Overdahl was ...