New U.S. home sales surged 9.6 percent in July, rising for the fourth straight month and beating expectations as the housing market marches steadily back from its historic downturn.
Mortgage interest deductions are the subject of recent examinations conducted by the Internal Revenue Service through the mail.
White House officials project lingering high unemployment in the short term and a massive 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion that feeds a ballooning national debt.
The idea of regulating the money market mutual funds as if they were banks could be detrimental to the $3.6 trillion industry, observers said today after former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker called for tighter reins on the funds.
Home prices across most of the U.S. have started to rise from the depths of the housing slump, a pivotal trend that will help stabilize the broader economy, according to new figures released today.
Study after study has found that affluent clients, above all else, want three things from their advisers: comprehensive financial planning, high-touch service and regular communications.
Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $12.07 billion to $3.581 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said yesterday.
Independent broker-dealer Securities America Inc. has announced that USAdvisors Network LLC of Eden Prairie, Minn., has signed an agreement for its affiliated advisers and institutions to join the La Vista, Neb.-based firm.
American International Group Inc. yesterday dismissed as “without merit” a lawsuit filed by two investors who claim the insurer should have covered the losses they suffered because they invested with Bernard L. Madoff.
A Swiss banker and a lawyer are the latest to face U.S. criminal charges in a wide-ranging international tax evasion investigation.
