Since the US economy has failed to recover as widely predicted, pressure on the Federal Reserve to conjure a solution has increased.
With the market selling off, Warren Buffett has been moving in. In fact, SEC filings show the Oracle has been loading up on stock, particularly shares of Wells Fargo. This may be of some interest to advisers, considering the bank's P/e ratio is now less than 9 to 1.
Ameriprise, MetLife and Prudential among those favored in a plummeting market
$250K limit can easily be bumped up to $2M; CDARS, brokered CDs gaining in popularity
Given the media frenzy over the market mayhem this week, clients are understandably blitzed, bothered and bewildered. Here's what advisers should be saying to calm them down.
Bargain-hunting investors pushing up the prices of equities; Dow well over 200 points to the good
It's challenging — next to impossible, actually — for investors and advisers to have an appropriate level of context for a major market meltdown when we're still caught in the rip tide (and searching for the floor or the shore, whatever comes first).
Gold may advance to a record $1,600 an ounce this year as investors seek to protect their wealth from Europe's sovereign-debt crisis, boosting demand, according to Scotia Capital.
With the stock market plunging -- and the Federal Reserve stating that business growth is flagging -- legendary investors and top analysts rate the chances that the U.S. is slipping into another economic downturn.
Planned job cutting by parent BNY Mellon could sweep away jobs at the custodian that's a mainstay for independent B-Ds. .
After the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 200 points just before 3pm ET., the index staged an incredible 636 point turnaround to close at 11,240, up 3.98% for the day — just one day after one of the worst performances in stocks market history.
The bicameral, bipartisan 12-person supercommittee must consider changes both to taxes and entitlements to make fundamental changes in the deficit trajectory. But will members be willing to break with party orthodoxy?
Company debt from the U.S. to Europe to Asia returned 1.8% last month on average, erasing a 0.65% loss in June, and the most since a 2.14% gain in August 2010.
Still investing in defensive bond portfolios despite long patch of stable prices
The market has been down for five straight weeks. But that isn't stopping Laszlo Birinyi's firm from making another audacious prediction about where the S&P 500 index is headed.
Famed Yale economist Robert Shiller isn't exactly bullish on most asset classes for the next decade. The only investment he likes? Green acres.
Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc. has hired Susan M. Dixon, former branch manager of Smith Barney's Laguna Niguel, Calif., office, to open a Stifel branch in Irvine, Calif.
Retail accounts of many banks not money-spinners; Wells Fargo latest to join field
New unit named after maker of bank's trademark stage coach
