March 31 (Bloomberg) — China’s stocks fell for a second day, paring the benchmark index’s best start to the year since 2000, on signs that the regulator will allow initial public offerings to resume after a six-month moratorium.
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Prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred in opening statements Monday at the start of the retrial in Brooklyn federal court of six men, including three Long Islanders, accused of misusing stock trading information broadcast over brokerage house “squawk boxes” between 2002 and 2004.

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March 31 (Bloomberg) — Japanese stocks gained, erasing earlier losses, as a weaker local currency boosted earnings prospects for automakers and electronics manufacturers.
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An unreformed Philadelphia man is charged with hacking into an online currency exchange with a Trojan horse scheme similar to the one he used in 2003 to unload thousands of worthless stock derivatives. The teenaged Van T. Dinh landed a 13-month prison term the first time around.

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