According to reports in the online versions of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain has accepted the top spot at Merrill Lynch

Kevin Matras shows you how to find winning stocks in the hottest sector, as well as acquire five new stocks from this week¹s screen

The securities industry’s biggest lobby held its annual meeting today, and, as usual, congratulated itself on the great job the industry has been doing in raising capital for business

In May, the SEC announced that it would not fight a March 30 ruling by the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals to vacate Rule 202—the broker/dealer exemption (a.k.a. the “Merrill Lynch Rule”

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The RIA industry gets all the glory: These publications, and others like it, have been writing about how fast the space has been growing.

Less than a week after Stan O’Neal retired as CEO and Chairman of Merrill Lynch, sources in the know say the firm’s Board of Directors has offered the position to BlackRock’s Chairman and founder Larry Fink

Another one bites the dust. Citigroup’s Charles Prince resigned Sunday night in the aftermath of Citi’s horrendous third-quarter earnings report

Deal with the mortgage crisis. Minimize the pain of a hedge fund implosion. Play a game of bridge. Smoke a J. That may be a day in the life of Bear Stearns Chief Executive, Jimmy Cayne.

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