Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Why the SEC Must Revise Its Proposed Reg A Rule
By Andrea SeidtThe SEC wants to transform Regulation A offerings into covered securities, which by law are not subject to state review. That's not what Congress intended.
March 25, 2014
Expect continuing growth of economy, marketsGoldman Sachs' Economic Research unit forecasts that U.S. gross domestic product this year will grow to 2.8 percent and 3.2 percent in 2015.
March 25, 2014
Expect continuing growth of economy, marketsGoldman Sachs' Economic Research unit forecasts that U.S. gross domestic product this year will grow to 2.8 percent and 3.2 percent in 2015.
March 25, 2014
Global Investors Less Confident, but U.S. Affluent Index SurgesState Street and Spectrem confidence indexes paint a mixed picture for March.
March 25, 2014
Government Pension ‘Millionaires’ Outearn Private SectorA private-sector worker would need a 401(k) balance of $768,940 to match the retirement income of his public-sector counterpart, writes Andrew Biggs of AEI.
March 24, 2014
Why Azerbaijan’s Debut Eurobond SucceededAzerbaijans recent 1.25 billion euro, 10-year Eurobond did remarkably well and not just because the largest nation in the Caucusus region has oil.
March 24, 2014
Bad Countries, Good InvestmentsLast week the White House suggested shorting Russia, but Mebane Faber is going long, calling that advice "moronic."
March 24, 2014
Grantham: ‘Next Bust Will Be Unlike Any Other’ Thanks to FedJeremy Grantham, co-founder of GMO, called out the Fed for interfering with the economic recovery.