AP - The government's top securities regulator called Thursday for Congress to impose new oversight on financial derivatives, warning that allowing risky instruments like credit default swaps to continue unfettered could bring further economic damage.

[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:24:04 GMT]
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Reuters - The top U.S. securities regulator said market watchdogs need to supervise credit default swaps, securities blamed for exacerbating 2008's market meltdown and more recently the Greek debt crisis.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:46:27 GMT]
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AP - A rally in financial stocks Thursday helped the market extend its grind higher to a third day.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:18:30 GMT]
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AP - A rally in financial stocks Thursday helped the market extend its grind higher to a third day.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:02:16 GMT]
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AP - A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Thursday:
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:21:38 GMT]
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Reuters - The S&P 500 hit a 17-month closing high as rising bank shares led a late rally that lifted stocks on Thursday, more than offsetting worries China may move to cool its overheating economy.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:29:49 GMT]
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Reuters - The appetite and sense of urgency for world financial reform have waned as markets have rebounded and the world economy has shown signs of recovering, the head of exchange operator NYSE Euronext said on Thursday.
[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:27:10 GMT]
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AFP - FTSE 100 shares ended in the red on Thursday after the latest batch of mixed economic data and company reports.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:11:44 GMT]
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AP - European and U.S. stock markets fell modestly Thursday amid growing concerns of an overheating Chinese economy and as investors awaited further insight into the state of the U.S. economic recovery.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:46:47 GMT]
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AFP - Leading shares weakened on Thursday after unconvincing gains overnight on Wall Street as investors mulled the latest economic data and company news.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:09:55 GMT]
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AFP - Europe's main stock markets weakened Thursday after unconvincing gains overnight on Wall Street as investors mulled the latest economic data and company news.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:58 GMT]
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Reuters - A spike in Chinese inflation weakened equity markets on Thursday, as investors pondered the prospects of interest rate hikes in one of the world's main economic drivers.

[Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:02:53 GMT]
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AP - GOOD NEWS, MODEST MOVES: The Dow Jones industrial average tacked on only 3 points Wednesday after the government said that inventories at wholesalers fell in January while sales rose. That suggests that demand is strengthening.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:29:59 GMT]
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Reuters - Ten years ago today, before the dot-com bubble burst, the Nasdaq composite index hit a record 5,132.52 points -- a peak that the technology-heavy market shows no sign of scaling again any time soon.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:37:58 GMT]
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AP - The chief economist of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is an expert on the financial instruments that figured largely in the 2008 crisis, is leaving his position for the private sector.
[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:25:02 GMT]
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AP - Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:58:48 GMT]
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Reuters - A former stock loan trader at Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp in New York received well over $100,000 of cash kickbacks by steering orders to other brokerage firms, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:49:59 GMT]
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Reuters - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's chief economist, James Overdahl, will be leaving at the end of the month, he said on Tuesday.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:45 GMT]
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AP - An official in charge of China's foreign reserves tried to ease American concern Tuesday about the political impact of its huge holdings of U.S. government debt and indicated Beijing has no plans for a big increase in its gold stockpile.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:02:49 GMT]
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Reuters - New York state should not reimpose a stock transfer tax as this would make Wall Street firms move to other cities such as New Jersey's Newark, or other states like Connecticut, Governor David Paterson said on Monday.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:52:16 GMT]
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