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This year the Securities and Exchange Commission will be looking more closely at exchange traded funds and variable annuities, new areas of focus for the agency from last year...
If at first you don't succeed ... | Copyright Sean Gallup, Getty Images
Edward Jones was the first firm to partner with the Securities Training Corporation to sponsor Series 7 prep courses at various universities in early 2015. But recentl...
This time is different. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images
George Soros spoke at an Asian investment conference yesterday and told the crowd the current market meltdown reminded him of 2008, on the eve of the worst recession in dec...
Hightower has made something of an art form out of the animated whiteboard drawing - using the technique in a few videos to help (literally) illustrate what they do. Its latest video takes the innocuous cartoon format and sharpens it into a d...
Buy, buy, buy. | Copyright Joe Raedle, Getty Images
The stock market on the whole may be struggling to start 2016, but that's not the case for gun manufacturers. Gun stocks gained 78 percent in 2015, according to USA Today, compared to the...
The year 2016 started with a bang with the Dow dropping nearly 500 points on Monday. Expect more of these kind of big swings to continue throughout the year, Allianz's chief economic adviser, Mohamed El-Erian, told CNBC. El Erian says that a ...
Cyber criminals are paying a pittance for passwords, according to MarketWatch. Citing a recently released study by Trend Micro, MarketWatch reports that passwords for entertainment accounts with NetFlix, Hulu and Spotify go for as little as $...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s Securities Helpline for Seniors has responded to over 2,500 calls and helped recover nearly $750,000 from investors since the service launched in April...
Famed E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison passed away in November and nobody can find her will. TMZ obtained court documents, which reveal that Mathison’s business manager both confirms the existence of a will and the inability to actually loc...
Famed “affluenza teen” Ethan Couch and his mother Tonya were detained by authorities in Mexico on Tuesday after the two fled the country in the wake of a surfaced video depicting an apparent probation violation by the young man, according to ...
