Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he's investigating whether any Connecticut residents are illegally evading taxes through offshore accounts.
Fears of inflation because of the Federal Reserve's massive quantitative easing measures are overblown, because the Fed has the ability to pull the liquidity out of the market fast enough to prevent price rises, William Dudley, New York Fed president, told CNBC today.
SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro today issued an open letter to broker-dealer chief executives, warning them to make sure supervisors are vigilant about conflicts of interests as they recruit registered representatives.
The Missouri insurance department has sued Central United Life Insurance Co. for allegedly dodging claims from clients with cancer.
Stocks mostly fell Friday as investors hesitated to extend the market's recent rally despite an improved outlook from Intel Corp.
Household income in the U.S. is essentially stagnant, raising doubts about whether consumers already hurt by job losses can sustain an economic recovery.
U.S. consumer spending edged up in July with help from the popular Cash for Clunkers program, but household incomes, the fuel for future spending increases, were flat.
Evidence is mounting that the longest recession since World War II is losing its grip on the U.S. economy.
The government says the economy shrank at an annual rate of 1 percent in the spring, a better-than-expected showing and more evidence that the recession is drawing to a close.
The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for jobless benefits dropped last week, and the number of people remaining on the rolls also fell, evidence that layoffs have eased.
It's time to look in the closet for that crumpled Dow 10,000 cap.
A Goldman Sachs analyst today upgraded his sector rating for midsized brokerages, saying an expected resurgence of corporate mergers and acquisitions as well as initial public offerings should lift the firms.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. generated nearly half a billion dollars in profits from serving Bernie Madoff, according to data compiled by a well-known finance professor.
About 20% of the defined contribution plans administered by The Vanguard Group Inc. had adopted automatic enrollment by the end of last year, up from just 5% three years earlier, according to a recent study by Vanguard.
In a chilling forecast, the White House is predicting a 10-year federal deficit of $9 trillion — more than the sum of all previous deficits since America's founding.
Mortgage interest deductions are the subject of recent examinations conducted by the Internal Revenue Service through the mail.
Variable annuities, whose sales and asset levels slumped during the market downturn, showed signs of a comeback in the second quarter, according to data from the Insured Retirement Institute.
The first lawsuit over the sale of allegedly fraudulent notes issued by Medical Capital Holdings Inc. was filed last week, and more look likely to come.
The feathers continue to fly in the brouhaha between The Charles Schwab Corp. and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
Consumer sentiment rose more than expected in August and expectations hit the highest level since the recession began, indications that Americans' pessimism about the economy may be lifting.
