Draft legislation that would give the Securities and Exchange Commission the authority to require brokers who give investment advice to act as fiduciaries was sent to Capitol Hill today by the Treasury Department.
Confidence among U.S. consumers this month fell to the lowest level since March, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment.
The Conference Board Measure of CEO Confidence in regard to economic conditions improved during the second quarter, jumping to 55, from 30 the previous quarter.
Ross Mandell, chief executive of Sky Capital Holdings Ltd. of New York, and five other individuals turned themselves in to the FBI this morning and will be charged with securities fraud, according to published reports.
World stock markets fell while oil prices slipped again Wednesday amid mounting worries about the speed of any global economic recovery just as the U.S. second-quarter earnings kicks off.
Morgan Stanley last month suffered a $1 million loss in an arbitration case charging that the firm had “blindsided” a small regional broker-dealer, Strand Atkinson Williams & York Inc., “by a swift and crippling raid” of senior management and top-producing brokers.
Investors sent stocks falling as they wait for signals about where the economy is headed.
Societe Generale, France's second-largest bank, said Monday that its second quarter net income will be "slightly positive" thanks to its corporate and investment banking units.
European stock markets rose modestly today following late day-before gains on Wall Street — but the fifth straight retreat on Japan's main Nikkei index provided ample evidence that investor sentiment remains extremely fragile.
Oswald Grubel, who took over as UBS's chief executive officer in February, has elected not to sell the company's wealth management business here, despite speculation in recent months that he might offload this business.
A trade group's measure of the health of the U.S. services sector contracted less than expected in June, reaching its highest level in nine months.
Oil prices plunged nearly $3 to below $64 a barrel Monday as dismal unemployment figures from the U.S. and Europe last week sparked investor doubts about any nascent economic recovery.
Wells Fargo & Co. said today it has renamed its investment banking and capital markets businesses as Wells Fargo Securities.
Orders to U.S. factories jumped in May by the largest amount in nearly a year, further evidence that the nosedive in manufacturing is nearing an end.
Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.
Another clearing firm bites the dust. Emmet A. Larkin Co. Inc. last month quietly shut down its back-office and clearing operations.
