Funds Grapple With Insurance Scandal (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - If you have doubts about how mutual fund managers reacted to news that insurance broker Marsh &amp; McLennan was the target of a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, you need look only at the share price.
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Investor's Business Daily - A funny thing happened on the way past the 2000-02 bear market: Assets in 401(k) accounts soared.
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Investor's Business Daily - IBM is ironing out some scheduling problems for the steel industry.
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Strange happenings from the investing and business world.
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Investor's Business Daily - 1 Indexes opened weaker in reaction to another plunge in China&#39;s stock market. But U.S. indexes recovered, despite a jump in oil prices. The S&amp;P 500, Nasdaq and NYSE composite rose 0.2%. The Dow edged up 0.1%. But volume receded across the board. In Shanghai, stocks fell 8% in a continuing correction. The yield on the 10-year note dipped to 4.93%.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Nat&#39;l Assn. of Purchasing Management&#39;s regional business activity surveys rose in June. The Chicago-area gauge eased to 60.2 vs. 61.7, but still remains solid. The Milwaukee index jumped to 66 from 58. Better auto production and exports helped, and could boost national activity. The index for New York City rose to 451.5 from 450.2, and the outlook improved as well.
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Investor's Business Daily - The barbarians aren't sitting on the fence anymore. They're making leveraged buyouts.
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Investor's Business Daily - Even before Tuesday's 0.75% slash in the federal funds rate by the Federal Reserve, mortgage rates had been sliding. Last week's cut pulled down home loan rates more.
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Insurance brokers, whose images and share prices have both plunged in a fees scandal, will struggle to make up the hundreds of millions
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Investor's Business Daily - Among personal finance concerns, having enough money to retire is typically most people's top goal.
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Investor's Business Daily - The ex-Fed chief said it's not clear if a proposed $75 bil fund to ease the current credit crisis will work. The fund, created by Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan, will buy high-quality assets of structured investment vehicles. Alan Greenspan said, "The issue here is how do you stabilize this sort of market ... will an intervention do that? If you go into a market and absorb a chunk of supply by essentially bidding above what fire-sale prices might be, that might persuade others from trying to get out of the market."
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Investor's Business Daily - Asset management and mutual fund firms have regained their sea legs after riding out a stormy summer.
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Investor's Business Daily - Most banks, credit unions and savings and loan associations are scrambling to comply with federal requirements for increased online banking security measures by year's end.
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An explosion of new exchange traded funds hitting the market is giving investors more ways to put their money to work every day. But how many do they really want?
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Investor's Business Daily - Could Russia's hypergrowth in cellular subscribers start slowing?
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Investor's Business Daily - If bond mutual funds were an ice cream parfait, high-yield funds would be the cherry on top. But top junk-bond managers are changing their diet a bit.
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Investor's Business Daily - Heritage Mid Cap Stock Fund courts growth stocks. But it won't settle for a flash in the pan.