PARIS — Just as Airbus began selling its oft-delayed superjumbo as a success story, a report of “massive insider trading” at parent company EADS was leaked to the media Wednesday — raising the question of whether the beleaguered company can ever get ahead of its problems. The nation’s biggest banking company paid about $637 million in cash and stock for ATD, and the group that received Citigroup shares as part of the transaction plan to sell the stock. Mounting defaults on risky home-mortgage loans to subprime borrowers have rattled investors in mortgage-backed securities, and the anxiety has quickly spread to other sectors, including high-yield junk bonds, debt issued in leveraged buyouts and even short-term, asset-backed commercial paper, the Center for Audit Quality noted. CFIUS, a 12-member group of key economic officials at the White House and several Cabinet-level officials, was created in 1988, but has been much more active following the September 11 terrorist attacks six years ago in investigating potential national security issues surrounding proposed deals involving foreign buyers. Read More