February 19, 2010

Experts traced attacks on Google and other corporations to two schools in China, including one with military ties.

Two lawsuits against the insurer MBIA are pending. If the company prevails, investors who now own bonds insured by MBIA will have a greater margin of safety.

Tobacco companies plan to use light packaging to identify “light” cigarettes, which critics say skirts the law.

The largely technical change in policy signals that the threat of a collapse in financial markets — so real just a year and a half ago — has dissipated.

The capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghan Taliban’s top military commander, was a “lucky accident,” an American official said.