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Morning in America!!!

Are auction-rate securities holders gaining the upper hand against Wall Street in the fight to gain full justice and restitution with penalties for the improper marketing and distribution of ARS? While 2009 brought many judicial and arbitration defeats for ARS holders, lately we witness a shift in the tide. Thank you to a reader of Sense on Cents for sharing that UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) not only lost an ARS case, but the Swiss bank has to repay ten times the initial ARS investment. WOW!!

What happened here? Why such a large settlement? Let’s navigate as The Wall Street Journal reports, UBS To Pay $81 Million in Auction-Rate Case:

UBS AG has been ordered to pay 10 times the amount a Maryland marketer of cellphones originally invested in auction-rate securities, in another sign of the reckoning still dogging Wall Street for its role in investor losses during the meltdown. (more…)