The dollar edged up from its near-record low against the euro, while crude oil traded past the $90 mark on NYMEX for the first time.
The system will help life insurance companies get certifications of supervision of annuity suitability.
Despite careening markets, Americans felt more confident about their financial security.
Lehman has pledged $10 million to Spelman College to prepare black women for careers in the financial sector.
The figure includes the change in banks' dollar-denominated liabilities, which comprised most of the loss.
Cory Little will head the private banking and investment unit in Boston's global wealth management group.
Merrill Lynch is stoutly denying that its finance chief, Jeffrey Edwards, will get the boot.
LPL has plucked Derek Bruton from a custodian that caters to RIAs to oversee its network of affiliated B-Ds.
Market uncertainty remains unusually high as a result of subprime-mortgage turmoil, the Fed chief said last night.
One of the nation's top-producing independent brokers is under investigation by Michigan securities regulators.
In an effort to get more wirehouse brokers to break away and become independent registered investment advisers, Schwab Institutional plans to roll out today an all-in-one benefits and payroll package designed for the newly independent RIA.
Across the country, states are considering plans to apply "terror-free" investing strategies to their public pensions.
They were selected “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.”
A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. has sued more brokers who left the firm in the wake of its recent merger with Wachovia Securities LLC.
Rising energy costs bumped overall producer prices up 1.1% during, but consumers were happy to open their wallets.
The wealthiest Americans took a record slice of the income pie in 2005, according to an IRS report.
Nebraska insurance director L.Tim Wagner died on Tuesday, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
One of the nation's top producing registered reps is under investigation by Michigan securities regulators.
The number of brokers at independent dealers will catch up to the number of wirehouses in three years.
The PPA has not increased the security of defined-benefit pension plans, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. said.
