The number of newly laid-off Americans requesting unemployment insurance benefits fell last week, a sign that job cuts could be easing.
JPMorgan Chase said today it earned $2.14 billion for the first quarter, thanks to rising deposits and lower borrowing rates. The profit was 10 percent lower than last year, but better than expected.
Stocks are slipping following a Philadelphia Federal Reserve report that regional manufacturing shrank again in April.
Michigan regulators say brokerage firms Citigroup Inc. and Wachovia Corp. have paid $2.37 million to the state after an investigation into the sale of auction rate securities.
Requiring annuities or other fixed-income products be included as an option in 401(k) plans is being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, said Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., chairman of the committee’s Health, Employment Labor and Pensions Subcommittee.
Investment bank Piper Jaffray Cos. said Wednesday that its first-quarter loss widened, but results were better than analysts had forecast.
UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, said today it expects a first quarter loss of nearly 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.75 billion) and announced plans to cut 8,700 jobs worldwide by the end of next year.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that consumer prices edged down 0.1 percent last month as a drop in energy prices offset the biggest rise in tobacco prices in more than a decade. It was a better performance than the 0.1 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index that economists had expected.
Charles Schwab says its earnings fell 29% in the first quarter, but results easily beat Wall Street's expectations.
Clearing giant Pershing LLC has rolled out a program to help client firms attract fee-based advisers who do some commission business.
Investors picked up consumer staples and industrials stocks today but remained cautious after getting more evidence that the economy is still struggling.
New vehicle sales could start to recover in the next several months, which could give a needed boost to automotive stocks, an analyst said Tuesday.
MetLife Inc. has backed out of the Department of the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, saying its strong balance sheet shows it doesn’t need federal aid.
Lower fees for defined contribution retirement plans are related to factors such as the size of the plan, higher contribution rates by employers and employees, and greater use of automatic enrollment.
President Obama aimed to juggle his glass-half-full take on the economy with a determination to not be stamped as naive or overly rosy in the face of stubborn problems that linger In a speech at Georgetown University today,
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday there have been "tentative signs" that the recession may be easing.
The Richmond, Va.-based insurer’s shares fell as low as $1.92 in this morning’s trading, as the impact of Genworth’s ineligibility for help through the Department of the Treasury’s Troubled Asset Relief Program took hold.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has beat Wall Street's earnings expectations, reporting profit of $1.7 billion during the first three months of this year. It's another sign that banks may be turning themselves around.
Investor's confidence in the stock and bond markets has been shaken, not just by economic weakness but also by the feeling that professional speculators are using tools not available to ordinary investors to plunder the markets.
