Bank of New York Mellon says its fourth-quarter profit surged as asset and wealth management revenue offset lower interest income.
Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market that illustrated nationwide data released two weeks ago.
Robert McCann is rewarding the veteran brokers who have stayed with UBS Financial Services Inc. through the past two years.
Investors in Treasury inflation-protected securities should be aware the “government is playing games with the CPI numbers” in an attempt to keep inflation low, said Robert Arnott, chairman of Research Affiliates LLC.
Financial planners around the country say there is a sense that people are returning to basic principles: Maximize savings; limit use of credit cards; keep a substantial emergency fund; understand risk; diversify; and don't short-cut your way to wealth.
If timing is everything, the mutual fund industry couldn't have picked a worse time to launch managed- payout funds.
The moral of the story? Look beyond past fund performance for winners of tomorrow.
Stocks got carried away about the recovery. That at least is one interpretation of two curious market moves so far this earnings season. Intel Corp. blew away expectations Thursday. Ditto for JPMorgan Chase & Co. the next day.
The news that Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut will not seek re-election this fall is a welcome development for both the nation's most powerful banking regulator, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and its toughest, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chief Sheila Bair.
A Utah judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by two former financial advisers accusing state regulators of violating their constitutional rights by bringing securities violations against them without proof of wrongdoing.
