Farm product sales jumped 16.1% for January and 73.3% from the year-ago period.
The SEC's proposed changes to Regulation S-P may slow down recruiting of independent reps, but executives with independent broker-dealers nonetheless are relieved that the agency has given some potential guidance on the issue.
The big hit clean-energy stocks have taken this year is just an expected correction, not the end of a fad, green-investing advocates say.
Blackstone Group today announced fourth-quarter losses of $170 million, compared with a profit of $1.18 billion one year earlier.
the Bear Stearns Current Yield Fund (YYY) will begin trading on the American Stock Exchange on March 18.
If hedge funds are becoming too commonplace, Michael Goldston offers jaded high-net-worth investors an alternative investment whose distinctiveness will knock their socks off and keep their feet toasty at the same time.
The Section 529 college savings plan industry is trying to make sure that the Internal Revenue Service doesn't rain on its parade.
The move is intended to simplify the mutual company's ownership structure, according to the firm.
Investors will be the ultimate winners if a Securities and Ex-change Commission proposal to permit exchange traded funds to operate without having to obtain individual exemptive orders becomes a reality.
The firm's version 5.2 of its eMoney Advisor 360Pro suite of online financial planning tools will launch this month.