Federal Trade Commission

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) was set to open down 3 percent Thursday after the U.K. Parliament released a cache of seized emails late Wednesday. What Happened Correspondence between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and fellow executives revealed intent to stifle competition and to monetize user data via various...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened On Sept. 26, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson's administration established the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to regulate business practices on behalf of consumers. Where The...

LendingClub Corp (NYSE: LC) shares plunged nearly 14 percent Wednesday but began to recover Thursday after the Federal Trade Commission accused the firm of deceptive practices. Even now, though, the Street’s bulls aren’t retreating. The Rating Morgan Stanley analyst James Faucette...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearing drove a 3.6-percent rally in the suffering stock over the last two sessions. But that 10-hour interrogation and anything revealed or resolved in the process had fewer near-term implications for Facebook than a...

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened On this day in 1903, under the Roosevelt administration, Congress established the U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor. Where The Market Was  The S&P 500 had started the...

Being haunted by debt collectors is scary enough as it is, but imagine the fearsome prospect that the debt in question may not even exist. Phantom debt is the name given to debts that may be old, that belonged to someone else with the same name, or in some cases, are completely fictional. The U.S....

There are limits to how much pricing power Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) can wield if it tries to subsidize its grocery goods in order to crush its competitors the usual way, Bernstein analyst Brandon Fletcher believes. The Federal Trade Commission this week approved Amazon’s acquisition of...

Uber Technologies, Inc. agreed to tougher ways to protect the privacy of its customers, settling a Federal Trade Commission complaint that the ride-sharing company failed to properly monitor its employees’ access to consumer's personal information. It was the second case of consumer...

DirecTV is on trial in federal court for allegedly deceiving its customers about the cost of their satellite subscriptions, and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants the company to cough up $3.95 billion in restitution. The trial kicked off Monday with opening arguments in U.S. District Court in...

A day after the Federal Trade Commission began refunding students defrauded by DeVry University, attorneys general from 18 states and the District of Columbia raised further objections to widely-scrutinized for-profit colleges. The coalition announced Thursday a concentrated lawsuit against...