Financial services companies continue to increase their technology spending despite rocky markets and an anemic economy.
Once again, it is about the plumbing.
During this period of extreme stock market volatility and credit market uncertainty, the case for a broadly diversified portfolio that avoids market valleys — and probably won't soar to market peaks, either — might be the recipe for a good night's sleep.
The unemployment rate shot up to 6.5% last month, marking its highest level in 14 years, according to the Department of Labor.
Barclays launched the iShares S&P Short Term National Municipal Bond Fund (SUB) and the iShares Barclays Agency Bond Fund (AGZ).
Wholesale inventories held by distributors fell 0.1% in September as companies reacted to the economic slowdown.
New York Life Insurance Co. said it won’t participate in the Department of the Treasury’s capital-purchase program.
UBS Financial and two units of CitiGroup Inc. adopt DTCC's standards-based managed-account system. SEC complees taxonomies for fund prospectuses.
Fully 91% of firms said a lack of clarity about the way the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program works is making them less willing to participate in it.
