EADS: bitter probe

It wasn’t the greatest day for France’s Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF). In a blow to its own investigative unit, the market regulator’s sanction committee on Dec. 17 threw out all insider-trading charges brought against 17 executives at EADS , the French-German aerospace group. The committee also said additional allegations against the Airbus maker itself, as well as its main shareholders, Lagardere Groupe and Daimler , were baseless. But in spite of appearances, the surprise decision lea...