Goldman to pay $22 million to settle "huddles" case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $22 million to settle civil charges stemming from weekly "huddles" in which the bank encouraged its stock research analysts to share trading ideas with firm traders who then passed tips to a select group of top clients. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said on Thursday the Wall Street bank didn't have adequate policies and procedures to make sure non-public information wasn't passed on from its analysts. ...

Graying America gets wired to cut healthcare costs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America. Some of the ideas might sound like "Robo-Granny". An astronautical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has made a skin-tight undersuit equipped with sensors that can constantly monitor the vital signs of its elderly wearer and feed the data into a computer that fires off health alerts. It was first designed for a landing on Mars. ...