Amid the failures and mergers on Wall Street, there is at least one silver lining for independent broker dealers and smaller asset managers.
The housing crisis showed no signs of rebounding in September as construction of homes dropped to its slowest pace since early 1991, and building permits for new homes fell to their lowest level in almost 27 years.
Calling the $700 billion government bailout an “extraordinary response to an extraordinary crisis,” President Bush today said that it is “going to take awhile” for the initiative to thaw the frozen credit markets.
Advisers were denied access to the San Francisco-based Schwab Institutional website, which allows them to input client orders and check accounts and transaction histories, for about one hour, Schwab spokeswoman Alison Wertheim said.
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Consumer confidence fell by the largest amount on record in October, according to a preliminary release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers' Index of Consumer Sentiment.
Hedge fund data-gatherers have started rolling out the grim numbers from September, a month being dubbed the worst month in the history of the shrinking industry.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC’s emerging markets infrastructure exchange traded fund began trading yesterday, the Wheaton, Ill., firm announced.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has chosen Nov. 17 as the new deadline for comments on its proposal to register indexed annuities.
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has demanded that AIG recover the money it spent on lavish outings, bonuses and golden parachutes — and threatened sanctions if the insurer didn’t heed the order.
