U.S. consumer sentiment has slipped to its lowest level since 1992, according to a University of Michigan/Reuters survey.
Cheaper gas prices were a major reason the consumer price index was unchanged in February.
With gas prices soaring and the economy struggling, retail sales slid 0.6% in February.
"it looks to me, [recession is] what we're in right now, JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO James Dimon said.
The U.S. trade deficit inched up in January, according to the Department of Commerce.
Estimated sales of book value annuities totaled $6.9 billion, while sales of indexed annuities totaled $6.3 billion.
A growing desire among investors to align their portfolios with their personal and political beliefs is transforming the financial services landscape and creating opportunities and challenges for financial advisers.
Financial advisory firms have evolved from home-based businesses, to one-man shows, to full-fledged, thriving enterprises with multiple professionals and sometimes many staff members.
The following is an edited transcript of the round-table discussion.
The big hit clean-energy stocks have taken this year is just an expected correction, not the end of a fad, green-investing advocates say.
Farm product sales jumped 16.1% for January and 73.3% from the year-ago period.
The SEC's proposed changes to Regulation S-P may slow down recruiting of independent reps, but executives with independent broker-dealers nonetheless are relieved that the agency has given some potential guidance on the issue.
The Section 529 college savings plan industry is trying to make sure that the Internal Revenue Service doesn't rain on its parade.
If hedge funds are becoming too commonplace, Michael Goldston offers jaded high-net-worth investors an alternative investment whose distinctiveness will knock their socks off and keep their feet toasty at the same time.
The move is intended to simplify the mutual company's ownership structure, according to the firm.
U.S. nonfarm payrolls shed 63,000 jobs in February — the second consecutive monthly decline.
An alleged Ponzi scheme ran for 12 years and defrauded 1,000 investors of $350 million.
The RBC CASH Index fell to a reading of 33.1 in March, marking the index's worst reading since January 2002.
The New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo is broadening his investigation into health insurers’ practices related to payments for out-of-network services.
