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U.S. new home sales drop from eight-year high

New U.S. single-family home sales fell in May from a more than eight-year high amid weakness in three regions, but the overall housing market remains intact. The Commerce Department said on Thursday new home sales dropped 6.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 551,000 units. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast new home sales, which account for about 9.1 percent

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Merrill Lynch to pay $415 million for misusing customer cash: SEC

An SEC investigation found that Merrill Lynch violated the an SEC rule in place for protecting customers' assets by misusing customer cash that should have been deposited in a reserve account, the agency said. The maneuver freed up billions of dollars per week from 2009 to 2012 that Merrill Lynch used to finance its own trading activities, the SEC said. The case is the largest customer protection settlement in SEC history, Andrew Ceresney, direction of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, said in a call with reporters.

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Merrill Lynch to pay $415 million for misusing customer cash: SEC

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Behind Tesla carnage, signs of support for Musk’s SolarCity deal

“It’s a natural evolution of their mission to transform transportation into a sustainable business,” said Joe Dennison, a portfolio manager of Zevenbergen Capital Investments, which has about 600,000 Tesla shares, or about 0.4 percent of shares outstanding.

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