Wall Street Roundup: Bonus brouhaha. How AIG dodged the bullet

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Awaiting stress-test results. Investors have been nervously anticipating the results from stress tests of Europe’s biggest banks, which are being released after European markets close.

Bonus brouhaha. President Obama’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, released a list of 17 financial institutions that paid “ill-advised” bonuses during the financial crisis.

Questioning Goldman’s settlement. A government watchdog is going to probe the timing of the settlement between Goldman Sachs and the Securities and Exchange Commission, which came just before the final passage of the financial reform legislation.

Ratings agency compromise. The Securities and Exchange Commission is allowing bond offerings to go ahead without official ratings from ratings agencies after the agencies began to worry about the new liability they may have under the financial reform law.

How AIG dodged the bullet. The Wall Street Journal looks at the scribbled notes that may have scuttled the government’s investigation of American International Group’s role in the credit crisis.

-- Nathaniel Popper in New York