Vanguard announced several reassignments of portfolio managers in its fixed income and money market funds.
U.S. consumption edged up by a scant $12 billion, a gain of only 0.1%.
AIG has filed suit against ex-chief executive Maurice Greenberg and six other former directors and executives, accusing them of breaching fiduciary duty,
March's reading of the Reuters/University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment was the worst since 1992.
The firm reported that its operating earnings jumped 17% to a record level of $1.28 billion for 2007.
The U.S. economy grew at 0.6% annual rate in the first quarter, marking the slowest quarter since 2002.
The London hedge fund manager projects net management fee income to grow 15% from the year-ago period.
A "patchwork of regulators" are "unable or unwilling" to protect the American people, said Sen. Barack Obama.
PowerShares Global Nuclear Energy Portfolio is designed to track the overall performance of companies in the nuclear energy industry.
The FTSE Group and Conflict Securities Advisory Group have teamed up to roll out the Terror-Free Index Series.
