  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - American employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, a sign that Washington's austerity drive could be stealing momentum from the economy. | | | | | (Reuters) - At least three wealth management firms that market themselves as objective financial advisers are getting payments for investing their clients' money in certain mutual funds, a practice that even some of these firms say could create conflicts of interest. | | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve should continue buying bonds through this year due to a "scarring" of the labor market, and even more aggressive policies may be warranted if unemployment remains persistently high, a top Fed official said on Friday. | | | |  | | | | SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has signed an overhaul of the U.S. territory's cash-short public pension fund into law, after it was passed by lawmakers late on Thursday in a bid to soothe investors and shore up the country's sputtering economy. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Fears of a rush for the exits from the U.S. bond market have been greatly exaggerated. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - For a business whose main products fetch record prices, the financial services industry sure is firing a lot of people. | | | |  | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Call it the myth of the greedy geezer - an argument keeps popping up in Washington that old people have it too good, and that entitlement spending is squeezing out programs for the young and the needy. We can maintain our current spending on programs like Social Security, or we can have Head Start - but we cannot do both. | | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A hunt for higher yields by risk averse investors is helping spark a resurgence in funds that can invest more broadly and take bigger risks than strictly regulated money market funds. | | |  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. investors in two big funds that track Japanese stocks got a good lesson in the importance of currency hedging on Thursday. | | | |  | | | | MUMBAI (Reuters) - Banks and mutual funds in India are earning abnormally high returns in money markets by breaching central bank rules forbidding forward trades, multiple people involved in the practice said, undermining the effectiveness of monetary policy in the process. | | | | |  |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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