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Wells Fargo Pays $40 Million to Customers for Excessive Fees

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In addition, Wells Fargo paid a $35 million civil penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Excessive fees According to the SEC, each of the affected accounts was opened prior to 2014, and account holders continued to pay excessive fees through December 2022. How do you get paid?

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Prediction: New Dungeons & Dragons Edition Won't Help Hasbro Much

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In 2014, I attended my first Gen Con. In 2014, games giant Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) released the fifth edition of the game, with heavy promotion at Gen Con itself, including this near life-size D&D-themed castle constructed within the Indianapolis Convention Center's biggest ballrooms. It was fantastic -- and fortuitous.

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50% of Billionaire Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Portfolio Is in These 3 Companies -- and They're Not Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, there are only seven different stocks in the portfolio, and only one of them is a technology stock. Ackman has been investing in Hilton since late 2018 (the other two were started in 2016 and 2014, respectively), and the stock has roughly doubled since that time.

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The SEC Changes Regulations for Money Market Funds. Here's What It Means for You

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Image source: Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted last week to change the regulations governing money market funds. Money market funds are a type of mutual fund that invest in low-risk, short-term debt securities, such as government bonds and commercial paper. This led to the U.S.

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2 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks That Could Go Parabolic

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considered barring Chinese stocks like Alibaba back in 2022 if government access to account auditing data was not granted. billion) in fiscal 2014, the year it IPO'd. Here's why these two AI-related stocks could go parabolic. Alibaba Amid strained U.S.-China

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Augmented Reality Devices: Apple vs. Meta Platforms

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The SEC's complaint against Coinbase. Ricky Mulvey: Yesterday, Apple presented the Vision Pro, an augmented reality headset and its first major new product since 2014. I'm unsure; the SEC has telegraphed what they were going to do, so there shouldn't have been a surprise to many market participants.

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I Wouldn't Touch This Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stock With a 10-Foot Pole. Here's Why.

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However, the stock has been under significant pressure since last year when it was the subject of one prominent short-seller and the target of a recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation. From 2014 through 2023, the investing component of Icahn Enterprises has lost $9.2 Here's why.