China's long on demand but short on supply of several key industrial metals. That's one reason analysts are picking silver -- not gold -- as the best commodities bet in 2011.
Worrisome shortage fuels big spike in price of red gold; 'where is all the new copper going to come from?'
When Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles formally released their controversial deficit reduction plan earlier this month, they patted each other on the back as if to say, “Well done — everyone can find something to hate.”
The Securities and Exchange Commission is unlikely to see its budget increased over the next couple months as it continues to implement Dodd-Frank.
Like automobiles, the future of long-term-care insurance may lie in hybrids.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is holding off forming several new departments required under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, will halt the sale of new long-term care coverage after citing “financial challenges” in the business.
The disclosure that Mary Schapiro received nearly $9 million last year when she left her post as Finra's chief executive to become chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission was greeted with outrage by brokerage industry participants last week.
Genworth Financial Wealth Management Inc. has appointed Eaton Vance Investment Managers as a portfolio strategist for its client accounts.
But Republican representative has little support for wholesale repeal, even among GOP
Investors continue to flee the bond market in droves. Meanwhile, Bill Gross, Pimco's legendary bond guru, keeps plowing prodigious amounts of his own money into debt funds.
Hundreds of financial advisers switched firms this year, many looking for opportunities to build equity in themselves and some exiting after mergers, according to <i>InvestmentNews</i> data.
A Wirehouse Adviser, Regional Firm Broker, and a Boutique Firm Adviser are sitting with me for dinner. None of them are particularly happy with their current firms.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission froze the assets of a North Carolina investment firm and its owner, claiming he diverted more than $16 million from clients including pension funds, school endowments and hospitals.
Last August, a well-publicized technical indicator called the Hindenburg Omen predicted an impending market crash.
Downward pressure on the markets is coming from a number of sources, including geopolitical risk in the form of heightened conflict between North and South Korea, the deepening of the European debt crisis, policy tightening in China, an FBI-led investigation of insider trading, confusion over the implementation of quantitative easing and weakening housing market data
