Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Charles Biderman, Jeremy Siegel and Others on Today’s Market: Ground Floor or Precipice?
By Gil WeinreichOne fund exec who's held 80 meetings with advisors since April says they all ask the same thing: How do I get my clients out of cash and bonds?
November 01, 2012
Bill Gross Channels Flavor Flav for Latest Investment OutlookPIMCOs Bill Gross ups his manic style in his latest investment outlook by recounting a conversation with a genie that looks and talks like rap icon Flavor Flav.
November 01, 2012
Unum continues to face rate pressureGroup long-term disability insurance sales rose, and more LTD claimants recovered.
November 01, 2012
Unum continues to face rate pressureGroup long-term disability insurance sales rose, and more LTD claimants recovered.
November 01, 2012
Moody's Says Sandy Likely to Drive Further Rate IncreasesMoodys reports that one positive result of Hurricane Sandy for insurance companies is that the event will likely help support price increases going into 2013.
November 01, 2012
8 Events That Closed or Shook the NYSESometimes the events shut the market, other times trading continued in the face of tragedy.
November 01, 2012
It’s Still the Economy, Stupid: TD Ameritrade Poll Ahead of ElectionRetail investors named three issues as weighing heaviest on their confidence in the stock market, according to TD Ameritrade's Investor Sentiment Poll.
November 01, 2012
London Could Lose Out Over Eurozone Banking UnionOpposition to an EU budget freeze and to Britains joining a eurozone banking union could cost the City of London its position at the top of the worlds financial centers.