NEW YORK — Exposure to global markets is playing an increasingly important role in the confidence investors have in a company and its stock, according to evaluations of 2006 fourth-quarter company reports published last month by Goldman Sachs & Co. Inc.
KPMG LLP endured another blow in its tax shelter case this week, when a federal judge in Texas ruled that tax shelters based on fake bank loans are not legitimate tax write-offs, according to the New York Times.
The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration released its first Field Assistance Bulletin of the year, which provides guidance to field investigators regarding an exemption for investment advice in the Pension Protection Act.
Lower gas prices and a thriving labor market boosted consumer confidence to its highest level in two years, according to the monthly index of consumer sentiment that Reuters and the University of Michigan released today.
The former head of a Hailey, Idaho-based hedge fund was indicted on criminal charges that he carried out a fraudulent scheme that bilked investors out of $88 million, the U.S. Attorney's office said yesterday.
Three executives of National Planning Corp., Sean Haley, Bryan Jacobsen and Austin Moon, have received promotions.
Putnam Investments today announced that it is being acquired by Great-West Lifeco Inc., a subsidiary of Power Financial Corp. in Montreal, for $3.9 billion.
The Pending Home Sales Index, which measures signed sales contracts, increased 4.9% in December.
There's an old saying that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client.
New York Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer isn't just getting scandal-plagued mutual fund companies to cry uncle. He is going for their wallets, too.
Concerned that the public - and even some financial planners - are clueless about its practice standards, the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. in Denver is on a mission to spread the word.
A bipartisan group of senators has offered compromise legislation that would require publicly traded companies to include in expense statements stock options for their top employees.
The Internal Revenue Service is already helping taxpayers use a new tax law providing income exclusions for death benefit payments and certain home sales.
Mutual funds that use hedging strategies are finding their way into variable-annuity subaccounts - a move some expect will snowball in the coming year.
Some of Wall Street's most powerful firms, reeling from steep drops in stock-trading profits, are urging regulators to help them make more money.
It is one of those rare moments in Leon Wagner's 26 years on Wall Street. Virtually every investment he has made recently has gone up - a lot.
