BofA Talks Deal On Ex-Broker Pay

(Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said Bank of America Corp could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in a settlement following talks with lawyers representing more than 1,000 former Merrill Lynch & Co brokers, who left the brokerage firm after BofA acquired it in 2009,

(Reuters) - The Wall Street Journal said Bank of America Corp could end up pay

The Wall Street Journal said Bank of America Corp could end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars in a settlement following talks with lawyers representing more than 1,000 former Merrill Lynch & Co ...

Dial Corp.'s new lawsuit against News Corp. could set the stage for a full-scale mutiny among Rupert Murdoch's advertising clients, according to a prominent retail industry lawyer. Such a mutiny could cost News "hundreds of millions of dollars," the attorney speculates.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy will likely cost telephone and cable service providers hundreds of millions of dollars, with companies such as Verizon Communications and Cablevision Systems Corp hit hardest, according to analysts. The storm could end up costing cable and telephone network operators $550 million to $600 million in clean-up and repair costs, according to Barclays analyst James Ratcliffe. Along with Cablevision and Verizon, Ratcliffe also included costs at Time Warner Cable and the wireless operations of AT&T Inc and Sprint Nextel in his estimate. ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy will likely cost telephone and cable service providers hundreds of millions of dollars, with companies such as Verizon Communications and Cablevision Systems Corp hit hardest, according to analysts.

Auditors in West Virginia just released a scathing report that basically accuses Cisco of swindling the state into buying millions of dollars of high-end routers that it didn't need.