Executives testified today that they did all they could to keep Bear Stearns
The stock market has been on some run of late, with the S&P 500 index up nearly 5% in the first quarter. With cash-rich corporates eyeing stock buybacks, expect more of the same.
Buried in the jobs creation law signed by President Barack Obama last month were a number of tax and reporting provisions that have nothing to do with employment opportunities.
The Federal Reserve repeats its pledge to hold interest rates at record lows to foster the economic recovery and ease high unemployment.
The bank urges the Swiss parliament to sign a tax treaty with the U.S. -- or risk winding up on Uncle Sam's blacklist
The Canadian investment firm that paid $1.68 million last year to win lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is about to collect its prize.
Financial literacy has gone bilingual.
The nation's economy posted its largest job gain in three years in March, while the unemployment rate remained at 9.7 percent for the third straight month.
An Apple Valley, Minn., money manager is charged with orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded at least 1,000 victims out of $190 million.
With five companies slated to go public next week, the initial-public-offering market is on track for its best two-week period since December 2007 — when there were 13 IPOs spread over two weeks.
Starting today, viewers will be glued to the TV for the NCAA men's basketball tournament. But one financial firm in Kentucky is drawing clients in with its own tourney attraction
A judge has decided prosecutors have enough evidence to try two former Nebraska City brokers accused of defrauding investors out of more than $20 million.
Now that the days of generous variable annuities are behind them, some advisers are finding ways to fit the revamped, slimmed-down versions into clients' portfolios.
Brian Laubacker has joined The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. Mr. Laubacker will serve as a regional vice president of sales in the western U.S. for The Hartford's individual life insurance division.
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has begun recruiting independent insurance agents to sell fixed life insurance products while retaining their own autonomy.
Scottrade today announced that is has promoted Brian Davis to lead Scottrade Advisor Services.
While the price of gold has been rising steadily since 2001 and reached its highest average level ever in 2009, S&P's Metals & Mining equity analyst, Leo Larkin, believes that the price will rise again in 2010, for several reasons.
By late 2009, as the U.S. dollar flirted with multi-year lows against most foreign currencies, big investment players crowded into trades that shorted the greenback.
I have a solution for Lee Feldman's salespeople who are worried about losing their income derived from 12(b)-1 fees (“Keeping 12(b)-1 fees discourages churning,” Feb. 1).
