The United States shed 598,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate rose to 7.6% from 7.2%.
In her first public speech since becoming chairman of the SEC, Mary Schapiro said risk-based oversight of broker-dealers and advisers needs to be strengthened.
Wachovia Securities reached a settlement with the SEC in which it agreed to pay investors more than $7 billion to buy back failed auction rate securities.
New claims for jobless benefits rose to a 26-year high last week, signaling that the U.S. economy remains stuck in a deep recession.
New orders for manufactured goods fell 3.9% in December, marking the fifth consecutive month of declines.
After forecasting dismal 2008 results, Swiss Reinsurance Group has announced that it will receive a capital infusion from billionaire Warren E. Buffett.
President Obama revealed major compensation reforms today that will limit significantly the pay of executives at companies receiving federal bailout money.
A survey of 506 registered investment advisers finds half their new assets are coming from wirehouses and other broker-dealers.
Will Fuller has joined Lincoln Financial Distributors of Philadelphia as president and chief executive, effective Feb. 13.
Regulators and members of the futures industry met before the House Agriculture Committee to debate the regulation of credit default swaps and other derivatives.
It might pay for broker-dealer firms and registered representatives to litigate disciplinary proceedings brought against them by the SEC and Finra.
The Department of the Treasury under Bush administration Secretary Henry Paulson paid 44% more for bank securities than they were worth.
Fairfield Greenwich Group, the largest feeder fund for Bernard Madoff Investment Securities LLC with $7.5 billion invested, failed to perform due diligence.
Lazard, an investment bank, said profit for its fourth quarter, ended Dec. 31, had fallen by about half to $61.2 million, or 50 cents per diluted share.
The Department of Labor today delayed implementation of a rule that would have allowed most investment advisers to give specific advice to 401(k) participants.
Aviva announced that full-year 2008 life insurance and pension sales hit a company record of 11.9 billion pounds ($17.2 billion) in the United Kingdom.
ING Groep has sold off its 70% stake in its Canadian property/casualty unit, ING Canada Inc., in an attempt to bulk up its balance sheets.
Three former brokers, who were first with UBS Financial Services Inc. and then with Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., have been barred from working in New Jersey.
Iowa’s insurance commissioner yesterday posted a bulletin that would allow life insurers in that state to apply deferred tax assets toward 15% of their statutory capital and surplus levels.
Employers eliminated 650,000 jobs last month, bringing the total number of job cuts in the United States since September 2008 to 2.3 million.
