Personal incomes fell 0.7% in July, marking the sharpest decline since incomes dropped 2.3% in August 2005.
The package includes 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) in rebate checks that will be sent to Japanese citizens.
Advisers are using ETFs in multiple ways, in both the core and satellite allocations, as well as in the active and passive slices of investors’ portfolios.
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and the Massachusetts Housing Partnership will be repaid $18 million and $25 million, respectively.
The New York-based ratings agency upgraded BlackRock's long term corporate credit rating to AA- from A+.
The National Association of Independent Life Brokerage Agencies has announced its opposition to the SEC's regulation of fixed indexed annuities as securities.
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating how a close business relationship between Fidelity Investments and Goldman Sachs affected auction rate securities transactions.
The Rydex AdvisorBenchmarking Inc.'s Advisor Confidence Index rose 13% in August to 97.06, from 86.27 in July.
An index covering all nine U.S. census divisions fell 15.4% compared with the year-over-year decline of 14.2% in the first quarter.
Inflation may fail to moderate unless monetary policy is tightened "sooner than currently anticipated by financial markets.”
