Bipartisan support is growing in the U.S. Congress for new rules banning insider trading by lawmakers amid concerns about waning trust among the public.
History is on the side of a Santa Claus rally by the stock market at the end of the year, but the bigger issue is what it means for stocks next year if that year-end rally doesn't pan out.
For those with a long horizon, I am sure well-managed forestry and farmland will outperform the average of all global assets.
MetLife Inc., the biggest U.S. life insurer, was removed from Citigroup Inc.'s list of top stock picks as new Chief Executive Officer Steven Kandarian reshuffles management and plans his strategy.
The 30 stocks making up the Dow Jones Industrial Average are expected to increase their annual dividend payouts by an average of 11.8% over the third quarter of 2010 and by 1.1% over the second quarter of this year.
Don't see magic fading following passing of company co-founder; 'creative spirit is still there'
Up 13% after Citigroup analyst said insurer can withstand mortgage-related losses
Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. invested $23.9 billion in the third quarter, the most in at least 15 years, as he accelerated stock purchases and broadened the portfolio beyond holdings in consumer and financial companies
Frank A. Barbera Jr., co-portfolio manager of the Sierra Core Retirement Fund, tracks a staggering number of jobs reports and other economic indicators
Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management will hold a 90-minute conference call with BofA CEO Brian Moynihan on Aug. 10 during which investors in the Fairholme Fund, which holds 92.6 million shares of the bank, will get to ask about its sagging share price.
Frank A. Barbera Jr., co-portfolio manager of the Sierra Core Retirement Fund, tracks a staggering number of jobs reports and other economic indicators. They all say the same thing, he says.
UBS AG, Switzerland's biggest bank, will pay $12 million to resolve Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that a brokerage unit allowed millions of short-sale orders to be placed without reasonable grounds to believe that the securities could be delivered.
Barton Biggs, a hedge fund manager who bought stocks when the market bottomed in March 2009, recently boosted bullish bets on equities in his Traxis Global Equity Macro Fund, citing improving U.S. economic data
Traders are placing more bets than any time since 2009 that the CBOE's Volatility Index will fall, a sign they expect concern about Europe's credit crisis to recede and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to rally.
Looking beyond the technology-centric U.S. market is key to building a solidly diversified portfolio of tech stocks, according to Ian Warmerdam, manager of the $300 million Henderson Global Technology Fund.
The nearly two-year trend of companies' hoarding cash due to economic uncertainty plays right into the hand of the $560 million JPMorgan Equity Income Select Fund.
Emerging-market stocks are “cheap” and Pacific Investment Management Co. is buying in China after the nation's shares tumbled this year
More institutions are taking cover as uncertainty surrounding the euro is putting developed-market currency risk at center stage of global investment portfolios, including equities strategies
