Investors now have a 'long overdue' online tool to find and compare prices of municipal bonds, bringing clarity to an often opaque market.
Plus: Deutsche Bank shows its hand with World Cup bets, Wall Street fines are a cash cow for the Treasury Dept., navigating Social Security before you retire, and eating at home gets pricey in a hurry.
Many advisers think mom-and-pop investors should warm to the bull market
Agency chief says greater transparency would promote price competition, improve market efficiency and facilitate best execution.
On the <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Inflation data could turn doves into hawks. Plus: Oil could get a lot pricier in a hurry, insider trading runs rampant and SIFMA cuts its economic outlook.
Idea of trying to break any exodus when rates rise illustrates how muddled Fed policy is.
After a drop from the Federal Reserve's tapering scare, fixed income assets have rebounded.
After several months of deliberations, Finra has expanded its pool of arbitrators and is ready to move forward with the hundreds of complaints related to collapses in Puerto Rico bond funds. That doesn't necessarily mean smooth sailing.
In confidential meeting, firms' attorneys oppose allowing arbitration cases to be heard in Southeast venues.
Early equals wrong and it isn't until the masses buy every dip that bull markets begin to top out.
With Treasury yields at historically low levels, the stakes are rising as the Fed cuts back the bond buying that's held down borrowing costs on trillions of dollars of debt from governments to companies and individuals.
On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.
Bob Doll, Nuveen's chief equity strategist doesn't see big head winds for stocks or the economy this year, forecasting mid- to high-single-digit equity gains this year. What about tapering?
Deputy chief investment officer has inside track to succeed 'Bond King' as CIO
SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical exchange-traded fund to compete with Bill Gross' Total Return ETF.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what's propelling REITs into their position as the year's hottest market sector, plus emerging market stocks' record month, Japan's inflation woes, and much more.
The challenges of an intermediate-term bond bull, Part 2.
Money manager Paul Schatz wonders if there is something dark and dangerous lurking
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Brokers pouncing on 401(k) biz. Plus: The Clintons dodge the estate taxes they support. The Fed wants to add exit fees to bond funds, U.S. banks on the edge of new funding rules, Congress mulls investor confidence on your dime, El-Erian sides with the IMF, and merger mania is alive and well.
