Oil prices plunged nearly $3 to below $64 a barrel Monday as dismal unemployment figures from the U.S. and Europe last week sparked investor doubts about any nascent economic recovery.
Wells Fargo & Co. said today it has renamed its investment banking and capital markets businesses as Wells Fargo Securities.
Orders to U.S. factories jumped in May by the largest amount in nearly a year, further evidence that the nosedive in manufacturing is nearing an end.
Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.
Another clearing firm bites the dust. Emmet A. Larkin Co. Inc. last month quietly shut down its back-office and clearing operations.
VSR Financial Services Inc., an independent broker-dealer based in Overland Park, Kan., has tapped Christopher Radford as its new chief executive.
Construction spending fell more than expected in May, a sign the problems facing the nation's builders are far from over.
Venture capital investments in green technologies rebounded in the second quarter, according to a report released by Greentech Media Inc., a Cambridge, Mass.-based online media and research firm.
Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts.
Job losses continued to rise in June: 472,000 jobs were shed, compared to 380,000 jobs in May — a 24% increase, according to a report released today by TrimTabs Investment Research of Sausalito, Calif.
Low-quality, beaten-down stocks played a role in driving many stock fund groups to the top percentile of performance in the most recent market rally, according to an analysis published by Morningstar Inc.
Concerns have stalled a three-month advance in the market that brought stocks up more than 30 percent off of 12-year lows reached in early March.
American International Group Inc. today sold most of its ownership in its Russian consumer bank subsidiary.
Despite the downturn in the economy, the number of health savings accounts and assets held in the plans continue to grow, a new study released today showed.
The 'Geritol Gang' tried to recoup investment losses by making off with their financial adviser. Now, they're looking at serious prison time.
Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is correct: Fiduciary standards for all who give investment advice won't be sufficient to deter fraud.
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Even though independence is losing its stigma as a sign of failure among wirehouse brokers, they continue to move at only a moderate pace to independent broker-dealers and registered investment advisory firms, a panel of experts said last week.
Although financial advisers have been leery of life insurance with long term care benefits, the products appear to be generating interest among consumers trying to insure against multiple risks and search for a place to store assets, according to a new study.
States that operate Section 529 college savings plans are showing an increased interest in hiring third-party investment consultants to monitor their programs in the wake of the stock market downturn and the poor performance of OppenheimerFunds Inc.'s Core Bond Fund.
