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• State probe of forced mortgage insurance heats up

  Access Denied. A probe by New York State’s top financial services cop into possible fraud in the sale of pricey mortgage insurance is being...   3:31 PM

• ERIC’S BIG HANGUP

  New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could have brought much-needed clarity to the nationwide foreclosure settlement talks yesterday — but...   1:49 AM

• 4 leave, 2 join Yahoo!’s board

  Yahoo!, a month after hiring Scott Thompson as chief executive officer, added two directors and announced the departure of Chairman Roy Bostock and...   12:49 AM

• Disney derring-do

  Fresh off inking a landmark 10-year carriage deal with Comcast, Walt Disney is getting ready to hit up other pay-TV providers for more cash as content...   10:19 AM

• Killer gas pains

  Big Apple gas pump prices could hit $4.55 a gallon by Memorial Day — and, at that level, likely stall the economic recovery as consumers dig deeper to...   10:19 AM

• Rumors sprucing up Sears

  Sears shares got another boost yesterday — this time on unsubstantiated chatter that Chairman Eddie Lampert has tapped Goldman Sachs to sell the...   12:51 AM
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  Mud flies in Stanford trial

  HOUSTON — Lawyers for jailed financier R. Allen Stanford tried to persuade a jury here that his former money man was the real brains behind a scheme to bilk billions from investors, branding him a “liar, hypocrite, adulterer, fraudster and coward.”...   12:49 AM

• Heat on PepsiCo’s ‘sin tax’

  Evidently the battle over employee health care costs and overweight workers isn’t over until the fat lady stings. The National Labor Relations Board...   12:31 AM

• Business briefs

  Ny Dodger New York real estate tycoon Jared Kushner has entered the bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. There are roughly five bidding...   12:27 AM
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  Mad dash for ca$h

  MF Global CEO Jon Corzine let chaos reign in the run-up to the brokerage firm’s collapse as customers raced for the exits and employees frantically tried to unwind positions, according to the first official account from the firm’s court-appointed...  

• Disney profit rises 12% on ESPN, theme parks

  BURBANK, Calif. -- Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 12 percent due to higher fees paid to its ESPN cable network...  

• Yahoo to restructure board of directors

  SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday that Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will not seek re-election to the company's board....  
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  Jared Kushner among bidders for LA Dodgers: report

  New York real estate mogul Jared Kushner is among the bidders for the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to a new report. Kushner, who also owns the New York Observer, would be Major League Baseball's youngest owner at 31 if he lands the team. His...  

• NY Fed set to sell billions more in AIG mortgage bonds

  Five Wall Street banks were invited to bid this week for another multibillion-dollar bundle of risky mortgage bonds held by the Federal Reserve Bank of...  

• Medco merger not as sick as some think

  Medco Health Solutions got sick quickly yesterday — its shares falling 8 percent after a report that its $29 billion merger with rival Express Scripts...  
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  Coinstar changes

  Redbox owner Coinstar, whose cheap DVD rental service has long worried Hollywood, is ready for its red-carpet makeover. With its popular kiosk rental business a hit among penny-pinching consumers, Coinstar — still known for its coin-counting...  
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  JPMorgan settlement hit: $110M

  JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay $110 million to settle consumer litigation accusing it of charging excessive overdraft fees. The largest US bank by assets joined Bank of America and other lenders in settling their portion of the nationwide...  

• Witness: Stanford’s SEC hustle

  HOUSTON — Even as his financial house of cards began to collapse, R. Allen Stanford was still trying his salesman hustle, a court in Houston was told...  

• Cracks threaten US mortgage pact

  The sweeping 50-state foreclosure settlement being pushed by the Obama administration seems to be unraveling just when Washington was hoping to wrap it...  

• Greek bailout may be blocked

  The leaders of France and Germany turned up the heat on Greece yesterday, saying the indebted eurozone country won’t receive new bailout funds next...  

• Citi cards go to China

  China’s decision, announced Sunday, to allow Citigroup to issue credit cards in its own name may signal an opening in its banking industry. Citigroup...  

• TiVo records a solid gain

  TiVo Inc. climbed to its highest since May 2010 as the digital-video recording provider expands technology offerings and benefits from patent-lawsuit...