Senate hearing focuses on rebates paid to brokers for placing trades with wholesalers and for using certain exchanges.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Four hot markets right now; investors turn their focus to Europe; the SEC stops an adviser; a digital currency cautionary tale; dark pool transparency (thanks, Finra); and World Cup fever.
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.
United Development Funding IV launches tender offer in conjunction with listing.
Responding to a letter from an activist investor, Nicholas Schorsch says he will keep building the company but his acquisition pace will slow. <i>(And on Monday, <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140602/FREE/140609990" target="_blank">ARCP shareholders rejected Schorsch's executive comp plan</a>)</i>
Regulator still reviewing industry comments on rule to give investors better handle on share values.
Even as the technical barriers are eclipsed, doubts remain over cost and utility.
Eight new funds offer chance to wager on the riskiest to safest corporate borrowers.
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.
Commission is developing rule proposal to strengthen industry data received, official says.
Nontraded REIT industry backs Finra's proposed disclosure rule but wants implementation pushed out to late 2015.
Acquisition of Corporate Property Associates 16 Global is industry's latest liquidity event.
With heady momentum after a record year of sales, nontraded REITs are expected to be popular with advisers and investors again in 2014 but new regs and climbing interest rates could dampen enthusiasm.
Money manager Brian Schreiner digs into the questions raised by the firestorm over Michael Lewis' book "Flash Boys" and claims that the stock market is rigged and comes up with some answers. Some questions can't yet be answered, though.
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?
