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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating the high fees charged to investors in the $337 billion managed futures market.

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Lazard has announced principal offering

Lazard has announced that one of its subsidiaries Lazard Group LLC, also known simply as the Lazard Group, is commencing principal offer of senior notes due in 2020. The offer will be worth $500 million and the notes will be issued by Lazard Group. They will be offered pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, they will be senior unsecured obligations of Lazard Group. In addition to the notes offering the Lazard is starting a cash tender offer. This offer will be for all its outstanding 7.125% of senior notes due May 15th, 2015. With these existing notes, Lazard Group expects to exercise its right to redeem all existing notes not purchased in the tender off at a make-whole price. The group intends to use the profits from the notees offering along with cash to purchase or redeem all of its outstanding existing 2015 notes and to pay fees and expenses related. There are a number of groups acting as dealer managers for the tender offer, they include: Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Lazard Frères & Co. LLC.

VIDEO: New Dragon Age: Inquisition Updates

BioWare released new information regarding the current state of Dragon Age: Inquisition, and the…

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Anonymous Yelp reviewers outed in Virginia court rulin

Whether several scathing reviews posted to a local Virginia carpet cleaning business were actually…

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Future steps: exoskeleton lets paralyzed snowmobiler walk again

Robotic exoskeletons are a staple of sci-fi, pointing to a future where technology can overcome serious injury and bestow superhuman powers on people. But that future is here today for Paul Thacker, who uses an exoskeleton about once a month to stand up and walk around — no small feat, considering he’s paralyzed from the chest down. 

Thailand: Uprooting Wall Street’s Proxy Regime

Unprecedented protests have taken to the streets in Bangkok, now for weeks, where at times,…

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