Lehman Brothers is verging on collapse, even as Bank of America is reportedly in talks to purchase Merrill Lynch and AIG hammers out its own rescue strategy.
The Producer Price Index dropped 0.9% in August after many months of increased prices, according to the Department of Labor.
September’s reading on consumer sentiment improved this month, compared with August, as Americans’ outlook on inflation brightened, according to the preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index.
A precipitous drop in energy prices, the presidential conventions and the government bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have helped consumer confidence rise dramatically this month.
Former AIG chairman and chief executive Maurice Greenberg and other former executives at the insurer will have to cough up $115 million as part of a settlement in a derivatives lawsuit with the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana.
Former registered broker-dealer representatives Peter D. Kelly and Daniel K. Ivandjiiski, have been barred from the securities industry for insider trading by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The Financial Planning Association and the National Association for Fixed Annuities have leapt into the fray, submitting comments on the SEC’s proposed index annuity rule.
Handful of firms peddled equity swaps, stock loans to clients; 'IRS pussyfooted on this.'
Richard England, Jr., the team at Martin Capital Management, Marc Turner and Elizabeth Verterano were named Community Leadership Award winners last night at the second annual awards dinner sponsored by <i>InvestmentNews</i> and the Invest in Others Charitable Foundation Inc.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal-2008 budget deficit projection is $407 billion, compared with fiscal 2007’s $161 billion deficit.
Another independent-contractor broker-dealer is being sold — and this time an insurance company is pulling the trigger on the deal.
Two divisions of Bank of America Corp. have agreed to buy back $4.5 billion in auction rate securities from individuals and small businesses across the country.
Manulife Financial Corp. of Toronto has named Donald A. Guloien to succeed Dominic D’Alessandro as president and chief executive officer.
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. of New York expects its retail client holdings of auction rate securities to fall to $7.5 billion by the end of the year, said Bob McCann, head of the firm's retail unit.
The Phoenix Cos. Inc. of Hartford, Conn., today launched its suite of living-benefit riders, with two new additions.
States and financial services companies promoting Section 529 college savings plans face an uphill battle this year as they kick off their traditional fall advertising campaigns.
Declining variable annuity sales will likely lead to enhancements to and new uses for VAs as carriers look for additional ways to appeal to high-net-worth investors.
MassMutual Financial Group is counting on the fact that consumers worry about whether they have made the right financial choice with its new campaign, Good Decisions.
To reinvest or not to reinvest — that's a question facing today's nervous investors as they wonder whether it's best to plow back dividend distributions or use the money elsewhere.
