Consumer spending, the bulwark of economic growth, is showing signs of life as the economy transitions from recession to recovery.
Both good companies and troubled companies have some lessons to learn
U.S. consumer spending, propelled by a temporary government incentives program for auto sales, shot up in August by the largest amount in nearly eight years even though personal incomes continued to lag.
A trustee trying to recover Bernard Madoff's assets for jilted investors now says a Florida philanthropist should return $7 billion that he received from Madoff.
In the "new normal" of slower economic growth and lower investment returns, Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC's Bill Gross is himself buying steady, dividend-paying stocks.
There are more positives than negatives in the current economy, but the negatives should not be overlooked, Liz Ann Sonders said today speaking at an Investment Management Consultants Association conference in Atlanta.
First-time claims for jobless benefits increased more than expected last week, a sign employers are reluctant to hire and the job market remains weak.
The Investment Adviser Association supports the Obama's administration's efforts to ban mandatory arbitration clauses in securities contracts.
“Cash for everything” government stimulus programs will help the economy look better through the end of the year, but the positive numbers won't hold up through the first quarter of 2010, according to economist Marci Rossell.
Financial advisers who have made outstanding charitable contributions to their communities were honored by more than 450 executives from 60 financial organizations at the third annual Community Leadership Awards last night at the Hilton New York.
The Securities and Exchange Commission would be expected to define a fiduciary standard that would be applied to brokers and investment advisers, according to draft legislation released this afternoon by House Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Paul Kanjorski, (D-Penn.).
In a lawsuit filed today, State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the two companies knowingly assigned false ratings to securities tied to subprime mortgages.
Fidelity Investments has hired David Canter, a lawyer who spent more than eight years at competitor Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., for a newly created position as chief operating officer of its investor wealth services unit.
Investors who lost a chunk of their retirement savings in the market downturn last year are obviously concerned about their futures — but so are investors who escaped the downturn unscathed, according to a report released yesterday by Financial Research Corp.
In what looks like the end of a long-simmering dispute, Finra orders two members of a team terminated by Merrill Lynch to pay the brokerage $3.5 million
A prominent wirehouse rep and his Hawaii-based team — <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090929/FREE/909299980&ht=choy>who rather suddenly left</a> Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. in September — have formed a new advisory firm.
Four senior citizens in Florida who were scammed into purchasing “inappropriate” equity indexed deferred annuities have had a combined $1.2 million returned to them by the state's chief financial officer, Alex Sink, according a statement from Florida's Department of Financial Services.
The majority of investors who work with advisers are not aware that income limits associated with the conversion of a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA will be lifted in January, according to a survey conducted by Fidelity Investments.
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Investors are just not sure where the economy is headed. And so the stock market may be in limbo for a while.
