Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.14 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.08 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.24 percent by 4.01 a.m. ET.
U.S. stocks rose on Monday as miners and energy companies advanced on dollar weakness and investors bought recent high fliers as the quarter's end approached.
British fund firm Jupiter's high-profile investor in financial stocks, Philip Gibbs, has put more than half his fund into cash as uncertainty around the UK election and western government debt hamper visibility.
Stock index futures gained on Monday as Greece prepared to test demand for the battered country's debt and investors shifted focus to key jobs data later this week.
U.S. stock index futures gained, pointing to a firmer start for Wall Street on Monday. Futures for the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite were up 0.4 to 0.6 percent by 4.09 a.m. ET.
Instinet, a U.S. agency-only brokerage hoping to fill a gap left by the diminishing number of sellside analysts, launched a dating-like service on Monday that allows companies to connect directly with institutional investors.
Precious metals have become a volatile battleground between shorter term investors exiting from long positions in response to a stronger dollar and improving economic conditions in many parts of the world on the one hand, and longer term investors who remain interested in these metals due to the fact that major trade, current account, savings, debt, and currency market imbalances remain unaddressed by governments.
The Dow industrials could hit 11,000 this week as investors bet the U.S. labor market had a significant turnaround in March, showing the economic recovery is in good shape.
Proposed regulations that restrict how financial advisers can work with company retirement plans could send brokers advising small businesses scuttling out of the market.
Demand for gold bars and gold coins is rising in major yellow metal consuming nations like China and India as investors are leaving the paper gold-exchange traded funds or Gold ETFs for physical gold. In India, sale of gold coins and gold bars is increasing despite the high price of gold. A recent Commodity Online study said that buying of gold coins has increased across jewellery shops, banks and post offices in India thanks to financial year schemes. In India, the financial year closes on Marc...
UBS adviser Chuck Huebner knew he was done with big brokerages when some supervisors questioned a stock he had purchased for one of his clients. The offending equity? Berkshire Hathaway.
Futures for the Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.2 to 0.3 percent, pointing to a firmer start on Wall Street on Friday.
U.S. securities regulators are looking at some trades of hedge funds Carlson Capital LP and Appaloosa Management LP, a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Stocks rose on Thursday as technology shares were lifted after wireless chipmaker Qualcomm raised its forecast and electronics retailer Best Buy reported quarterly profit and sales that beat estimates.
The U.S. securities regulator is probing hedge funds Appaloosa Management LP and Carlson Capital LP for certain trades, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The shares of two telecommunications equipment makers and a bank holding company blew past expectations in their stock debuts Wednesday, reviving hope for what had been a sickly market for initial public offerings.
One of the biggest insider trading cases to hit London in years cast a shadow on Tuesday on European banks Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas SA , as well as U.S. hedge fund Moore Capital.
U.S. jeweler Zale Corp , which expected to have secured funds to steady its finances by late May, is considering a financing proposal from Sun Capital Partners Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg plans to review past compensation at 419 companies that received bailout funds, including JPMorgan Chase , Goldman Sachs , according to a source close to the Treasury Department.
E*Trade Financial Corp named Steven Freiberg as its new chief executive and said it plans a reverse stock split, betting a former Citigroup Inc executive with consumer experience but a limited online brokerage resume will help it emerge from lending problems.
Shares of Medicaid insurers, hospital companies and even drugmakers rose on Monday as many investors concluded that passage of landmark U.S. healthcare legislation will add millions of new paying patients.
