Stock futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street Wednesday as a stronger dollar tugged on commodities prices.
A Boston-based investment firm has agreed to pay $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors for a Ponzi scheme run by an independent broker in Kalispell.
Three ex-employees of Bernie Madoff -- including operations chief Daniel Bonventre (above) -- say they played no part in the fraudster's $65 billion scheme
Institutional investors are investing in timberland, trying to fill new inflation-hedging allocations.
Stocks are looking to extend their gains into a seventh straight day as investors anticipate positive readings on home prices and consumer confidence.
Although there are just a few days left in 2009, small business owners still have time to squeeze in a few tax breaks.
New accounting rules and underpriced universal life insurance are just a couple of the issues keeping Joseph M. Belth up at night.
Morgan Stanley elevated its chief financial officer to a new role as co-chief of investment banking and global securities trading Tuesday as part of a management shake-up ahead of James Gorman's assumption of the CEO role on Jan. 1.
Provisions in legislation aimed at “too-big-to-fail” financial firms will increase borrowing costs for large institutions — and will make it harder to get secured lending, according to financial industry officials.
Wells Fargo Investments LLC will return about $1.3 billion to investors who suffered losses in the auction-rate-securities market, according to the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.
A Lubbock businessman pleaded guilty Thursday to two charges related to his bilking $50 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme.
The secular bull market in commodities, which took a breather during the stock market downturn last year, is back on track and poised for an extended rally, according to money managers and market watchers.
Stocks edged higher Monday as investors returning from a long holiday weekend were heartened by good news on retail sales.
The decade ahead could be a brutal one for America's unemployed — and for people with jobs hoping for pay raises.
U.S. stock futures are creeping higher as investors return from a long holiday weekend to find good news on retail sales
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned there's a "significant" chance the U.S. economy will contract in the second half of next year.
If the trend is your friend, U.S. large-cap stocks will be the place to invest over the next several months, says Jim Porter, manager of the Aston/New Century Absolute Return ETF Fund (ANENX).
The stock market's relentless charge from its March lows shouldn't be taken for granted, since no rally lasts forever, according to portfolio manager Jeffrey Beamer, who maintains a constant hedge on every position in his Lacerte Guardian Fund (LGFIX) offered by Lacerte Capital Advisers LLC.
A Virginia man will spend more than seven years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than $5 million from more than 30 investors.
