Moody's Investors Service has placed 177 top-rated municipal bond issuers with a combined $69 billion of debt on review for possible downgrade.
Company debt from the U.S. to Europe to Asia returned 1.8% last month on average, erasing a 0.65% loss in June, and the most since a 2.14% gain in August 2010.
Treasury bond yields are plunging to levels seen in the 1950s as concern a two-year recovery in the world's largest economy is stalling causes investors to flee stock and debt markets.
Is the suddenly volatile stock market signaling another recession? A majority of financial advisers don't think so, but a significant number are of the belief that a second recession could be around the corner.
Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement they sold that faces pressure from its creditors.
U.S. two-year note yields increased from a record low yesterday as the Labor Department said the U.S. added 117,000 jobs, up from a revised 46,000 gain in June and compared with the 85,000 forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
Investors Capital Holdings Ltd. has a new set of owners: its employees, advisers, and their clients.
Is our economy headed back into a recession? A look at a past double-dip, the recessions of 1980 and of 1981-1982, suggests we are due.
Kenneth Marsh, who pleaded guilty in April to charges he misled investors into paying fees for phony investment advice, should be sentenced leniently in part because he consistently helped clients turn profits, his lawyer said.
The 2007-2009 recession gouged the world's largest economy more deeply than previously estimated and the recovery lost momentum throughout 2010 before stalling this year, revised figures show, painting a bleaker picture that may raise concern over the outlook for U.S. growth.
