State probe of forced mortgage insurance heats upAccess Denied.
A probe by New York State's top financial services cop into possible fraud in the sale of pricey mortgage insurance is being stonewalled by a pair of Wall Street firms who refuse to turn over data, The Post has learned.
Ben Lawsky, the Superintendent of the state...
Killer gas painsBig 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 fill up their cars.
A government report yesterday confirmed what many motorists don't want to hear — there's a "one in...
Disney derring-doFresh 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 owners and distributors continue to spar over rising programming costs.
The groundbreaking deal covers Disney-owned channels like ESPN and ABC. It also greatly expands...
O, no! Oprah mag's newsstand sales plungeIf the economy is on the mend, someone forgot to tell the nation's magazine-lovers.
Of the top 25 glossy magazines in the country, all but four posted newsstand sale declines in the second half of 2011, according to the latest figures released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations...
ERIC'S BIG HANGUPNew York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman could have brought much-needed clarity to the nationwide foreclosure settlement talks yesterday — but instead left the year-plus-long matter a lot muddier.
Minutes before a much-anticipated 6 p.m. talk with the media — where he could have announced he was joining more than 40...
NBC scores 2.1M Super streamersMore than 2 million football fans streamed the Super Bowl live on their computers and iPads, NBC said yesterday.
It was the first time the NFL's title game was legally streamed and the network said the total exceeded expectations.
But many of the 2.1 million watching on their...
Red Lobster going live next to ApolloRed Lobster is rolling into Harlem at 261-267 W. 125th St. to anchor a new project next door to the Apollo Theater.The ubiquitous seafood chain has leased 9,500 square feet on two levels for a 300-seat restaurant in the new $14 million retail project being developed by Grid...
Rumors sprucing up SearsSears shares got another boost yesterday — this time on unsubstantiated chatter that Chairman Eddie Lampert has tapped Goldman Sachs to sell the company.The surge, which sent the struggling retailer's stock soaring more than 6 percent, came despite deteriorating results at the company's run-down stores, which lately have...
Mud flies in Stanford trialHOUSTON — 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."
And then they broke for lunch.
In exchanges that frequently...
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 three others in a board shake-up aimed at spurring a turnaround. Alfred Amoroso, a former IBM executive who ran Rovi Corp. until last year, and Maynard Webb...
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 yesterday ruled that there is "reasonable cause" to believe that PepsiCo broke a contract with its upstate New York union workers when it started implementing a...
Business briefsNy DodgerNew York real estate tycoon Jared Kushner has entered the bidding for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. There are roughly five bidding parties remaining for the bankrupt team.Ben on jobsFed boss Ben Bernanke said that the 8.3 percent January unemployment rate understates weakness in the labor...
