Stock indexes rose Thursday as a jump in exports offset concerns about an increase in weekly unemployment claims
A weaker dollar and hopes for more good news on employment are lifting stock futures.
ING today stepped up its multicultural outreach efforts by hiring a slate of new executives hailing from Latin America.
The Bank of England is holding interest rates steady at 0.5 percent and leaving its 200 billion pound ($325 billion) program to expand the money supply unchanged.
An amendment to legislation to be considered today by the House Rules Committee could exempt accounting firms that audit certain broker-dealers from having to register with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. arbitration panel has ruled that Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. wrongfully terminated Joseph Mattia when it fired the former branch manager of the bank's flagship office in Manhattan.
Insurers claimed a small victory in the indexed-annuities war, as the SEC said it will delay by two years the effective date of a proposed rule that would make the products securities.
Life insurers will be back in the black at the end of the year, reaping an estimated $16 billion in profits, according to new research from Conning Research and Consulting.
Wells Fargo & Co. says its third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year ago although it joins other big U.S. banks in reporting higher loan losses.
The struggling online brokerage and bank looks to raise capital to pull itself out from under mortgage-related loan losses.
Although five exchanges will soon vie to clear credit default swap trades in Europe and the United States, the number is likely to dwindle to one on each side of the Atlantic in the next couple of years, according to analysts and industry participants.
CEO said he's leaving as a result of strategic differences with the parent company
World stock markets fell Wednesday amid ongoing worries about sovereign credit risks and ahead of a key budgetary policy statement from the British government.
The Arkansas Securities Department announced Tuesday that it fined a broker $50,000 and suspended his license for two weeks after a probe into alleged fraudulent mutual fund sales
Stock futures are indicating a higher open on Wall Street Wednesday, bouncing back from the previous day's losses as the dollar resumes its decline.
Stocks are slightly lower in early trading as concerns about foreign debt problems offset a weaker dollar.
Dubai's main stock exchange plunged for a third straight day Wednesday as investors dumped holdings.
