The practice of tax law conjures images of bookish lawyers holed up in an office poring over tax codes - not the stuff of international intrigue. ...more

December 7, 2008

William Sharp, from the offices of Sharp & Associates in Tampa's West Shore business district, finds himself in the middle of the conflict – and in great demand. Some wealthy American taxpayers want to come clean with the IRS. They've hired his firm to help them voluntarily report assets they have in UBS accounts. He and his partners are traveling to Switzerland twice a month to review secret bank records. ...more

December 4, 2008

JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley on Thursday became the latest banks to reach settlements with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other regulators as part of an investigation into the collapse of the auction-rate securities market. ...more

August 15, 2008

Never mind. Or, in the words of Merrill Lynch & Co. Chief Executive Officer John Thain, "Our clients have been caught in an unprecedented liquidity crisis. We are solving it by giving them the option of selling their positions back to us." ...more

August 13, 2008

Billionaire investor George Soros said the "acute phase" of the financial crisis is "largely behind us" even as the U.S. economy is only now starting to feel the effect. ...more

May 8, 2008

Rupert Murdoch's effort to turn his $580 million MySpace purchase into an advertising powerhouse has turned News Corp. into a toxic stock. ...more

April 22, 2008

Yahoo, the Internet company that rejected a $44.6 billion bid from Microsoft Corp., may find that a so-called poison pill in its bylaws is not enough to defend against a hostile takeover. ...more

February 13, 2008

AT&T's strategy of selling high-speed Internet connections to temper a loss of fixed-line telephone customers may be faltering as new Web subscribers become harder to sign up. ...more

October 23, 2007

Wall Street began the fourth quarter with a huge rally Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average above 14,000 and well into record territory for the first time in 2 1/2 months. Stocks were buoyed by a growing belief that the worst of the credit crisis has passed. ...more

October 2, 2007