The investors who put their faith into advisers recommending the purchase of various oil and gas companies are now finding themselves in a financial slump. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is seeing the surge of claims filed by investors who have lost their life savings in unsuitable oil and gas investments. Often brokers instead of …
First, oil prices have been going down since the summer of 2015 due to reduced global demand as well as oversupply; then the concerns over the Chinese economic slowdown shook markets all over the world. Since that time oil prices have been steadily falling. According to U.S. Bank Wealth Management strategist Rob Hayworth: “Oil and …
Despite the fact that Republicans were critical of the the Dodd-Frank Act during the Tuesdays’ GOP debate, it does not mean big banks can sigh with relief. On the contrary, Republican candidates believe that the law is too friendly toward the big banks and instead it should focus on protecting consumers. According to the Wall …
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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are going to be “looked into” due to the recent market sell off. Security and Exchange Commission will closely examine rules and regulations affecting the ETFs. “We’re going to have tons of data to look at; data about the ETFs, data about the performance of Rule 48” said SEC Commissioner, Dan …
Despite the market woes and persistent fears over the Chinese yuan affecting global markets, many analysts still expect the U.S. economy to expand at a slow but steady 2.5% annual rate. Consumers are increasing their spending and the unemployment is at its lowest since 2008. According to Wall Street Journal, “growth stocks—shares of companies that …
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Bloomberg reports: “The S&P 500 has closed more than four standard deviations below its 50-day moving average for the third consecutive session. That’s only the second time this has happened in the history of the index.” Further, according to Bespoke Investment Group, “Not even the crash of 1987 got this oversold relative to trend”. The declining …
In an effort to boost its sinking economy, China decided to devalue the yuan. “China devalued the yuan last week and shifted to a more market oriented exchange rate sending the currency into the biggest decline in two decades”, according to Bloomberg. The world markets are plunging in response. “China could be forced to devalue …
FINRA said the firm failed to properly supervise sales of complex products, including certain ETFs, variable annuities and non-traded REITs May 6, 2015 The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. ordered LPL Financial to pay $11.7 million in fines and restitution for what it deemed “widespread supervisory failures” related to sales of complex products, according to …
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Blowing the whistle is increasingly worth big bucks.The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that a foreign tipster will collect a record whistleblower award of more than $30 million, more than twice as much as the highest previous award. The award came less than a week after Attorney General Eric Holder gave a New York speech in …
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SEPTEMBER 8 – There are rumblings, rumors, conversations, hypotheticals within the wealth management industry that Morgan Stanley has given consideration to buying UBS WMA’s North American operations. We have heard this ‘what if’ from an interesting collage of sources – enough of them that it certainly warrants referencing and discussing. Who are the folks having …
