Investors are finally getting back into the stock market, funneling billions into large-cap mutual funds. But this week's worrisome slide in equities, fueled by the unrest in the Middle East, raises the question: is the clock ticking down on the bull market?
Confidence hits highest level in a decade, Merrill study reveals; 67% now overweighting equities
Whitehead bashes proposed acquisition of New York Stock Exchange by Deutsche Boerse; 'holy institution'
A researcher at the ETF-specialist speculates that a trader may have been making a play on Ariba ahead of the company's earnings announcement.
Turner Titan's Baggini says both industries will keep rising
Without the unequivocal support of all the members of the Securities and Ex-change Commission, just how much can we learn about the future direction of the regulation of investment advice from the two SEC studies that were released last month?
TD Ameritrade Institutional continues to leverage one factor that distinguishes it from its larger competitors for the assets of advisers: its advocacy efforts
While last week's rumors of an OPEC production hike trimmed crude oil by a few dollars, energy prices are likely to keep climbing for quite a while
The trend is your friend in the energy sector, where the rising price of oil appears to be laying the foundation for a prolonged investment opportunity.
Insurer looks to roll back payout, withdrawal percentages on Highest Daily Lifetime 6 Plus product; puny interest rates to blame?
Wells Fargo & Co.'s head of brokerage operations said banks may reduce the number of investment products offered to customers if regulators impose a fiduciary standard on brokers.
Despite end of secret bank accounts, Swiss banking giant starting to attract more money from rich clients; profit margins still 'fairly poor'
Late Friday night, the SEC released it's report on the fiduciary standard. In it, the commission backed adoption of a single standard of care for both broker-dealers and advisers. Now, industry groups are taking dead aim at the proposal. <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20110116/REG/301169998>(What's the <i>IN</i> stance?)</a>
With the deadline approaching for the SEC to deliver a much-anticipated report about the regulation of financial advisers, the fight over establishing a universal standard of care is heating up
The ongoing political unrest in Egypt created a brief investment opportunity in neighboring Israel, where the stock market on Sunday experienced its biggest drop in nearly two years.
All of a sudden, gold seems to be losing its luster. With prices now at a five-week low, mining companies are starting to unload their inventory. Meanwhile, a growing number of analysts say the sell-off may continue.
ETFs for the precious metal now hold nine years' worth of U.S. supply; Soros, Paulson piling in, too
MetLife Inc.'s announcement last week that it will stop writing new long-term-care insurance shocked advisers, raising fears that rates will rise for existing blocks of business and that other carriers will exit the industry.
State insurance regulators are not likely to approve John Hancock's recently announced long-term-care rate hikes, denting third-quarter profits for the insurer's parent company, Manulife Financial Corp., according to analysts.
