Gold hit record highs Friday, as February COMEX futures punched through $900 intraday before finally settling near $898. Gold bugs swarmed around the media outlets making sure they got quoted as the first—the very first—to call this...
Oops, looks like Merrill underestimated its quarterly loss—again. After an $8.4 billion write-down in the third quarter that resulted in $2.3 billion in losses, the fourth quarter is likely to be far worse.
We, the editors of Registered Rep. magazine, are officially opening our
annual hunt for the best in the business. That’s right, we’re asking for nominations
for the Outstanding Advisor Awards
If politicians were traded daily like a stock, which company would best describe them? That’s one perspective Slate, an online magazine, has brought to its coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Merrill Lynch began a round of layoffs this morning: The dismissals reportedly kicked off at 7 a.m. on the trading floor, according to Wall Street news blog Dealbreaker
Financial research firm Morningstar announced today the three winners chosen as “Mutual Fund Managers of the Year.” But with many studies showing one year’s hot managers
The SEC released the results of the RAND study today, which examined two issues: how broker/dealers and investment advisors market and provide products and services to investors, and how investors understand the differences between investment...
Last year’s markets were not very kind to brokers and their firms, which both took major hits in the fourth quarter thanks to the credit fiasco. For those betting on 2008
Since Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau unsealed indictments on the "swindling" of the late Brooke Astor, grand dame of New York society and Gotham's first lady of philanthropy, the press accounts have focused on the two men...
