Author : Redwood Trust, Inc. MILL VALLEY, Calif. , Jan. 27 — Redwood Trust, Inc. (NYSE: RWT) today announced today that it closed its common stock offering of 23 million shares at $11.25 per share. In addition, the underwriters of the offering ..more

– French banking and insurance products and services provider Credit Mutuel to acquire French consumer credit products and services provider Cofidis (notified Jan. 21/deadline Feb. 25) — German chemical products company BASF SE to acquire Swiss ..more

The issue is important to workers because so many depend on sound financial markets to ensure healthy pension funds. Ottawa (13 Jan. 2009) - The Harper government plans to set up a national securities regulator for Canada. Canada is the only member ..more

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal Reserve policymakers are gathering to examine what other tools they can use to help ease a recession that has left millions of Americans out of work. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues open a two-day meeting ..more

WASHINGTON — The top cop at the Securities and Exchange Commission told Congress on Tuesday the agency is committed to finding ways to bolster fraud detection after its failure to discover the multibillion-dollar pyramid scheme allegedly hatched by ..more