Bloomberg Investment firms shouldn’t be allowed to keep half a billion dollars Citigroup Inc accidentally sent them because the payment wasn’t due for three more years, legal experts and advocacy groups said in asking a court to overturn the ruling. A group of law professors said in a brief with the federal appeals court in Manhattan that the lower-court ruling, …

Bloomberg Societe Generale SA plans to focus its investment bank more on corporate banking as Chief Executive Officer Frederic Oudea attempts to turn the unit around following steep trading losses on complex derivatives last year. The Paris-based lender on Monday said the business, which is heavily geared toward markets activities, will pursue a “client-centric” strategy and allocate more capital to …

Bloomberg Nasdaq futures fall as surging commodity prices stoked concern about whether inflation will derail a growth rebound in the world’s largest economy and spoil a record stock rally. The tech-heavy index has been whipsawed by the prospect of inflation which can threaten longer-horizon revenues typical of the industry. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index were steady. Treasury yields edged …