  | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - College expenses are on a lot of people's minds now that interest rates on U.S. government-backed student loans have doubled to 6.8 percent. | | |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Retail sales rose less than expected in June, the latest sign of a slowdown in economic growth that could argue against the Federal Reserve's plan to start trimming its monetary stimulus later this year. | | | |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Worries about rising interest rates and falling stock prices dinged U.S. consumer sentiment in early July, while other data showed a firm rise in wholesale prices, which could make the Federal Reserve more comfortable reducing its monetary stimulus. | | | |  | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives Republican who oversees an investigative committee said on Friday the new U.S. systemic risk council overstepped its authority with an attempt to push through rules to rein in the $2.6 trillion money market fund industry. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds view the prospect of an end to U.S. money printing as a chance to buy riskier assets, including troubled euro zone bonds and U.S. stocks, and show they can perform better when markets are less predictable. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Investors regained confidence in stock funds over the latest week and poured $11.8 billion into U.S. equity funds, their biggest weekly inflows since September 2011, data from EPFR Global showed on Friday. | | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - The old stock market cliché "sell in May, and go away" had so far proved untrue this year. Instead, it is the bond market, so often perceived as steady, low risk and dependable, that has bitten investors. | | | | | | (Reuters) - Looking the other way while a broker racks up commissions by making excessive trades can have devastating consequences for his or her supervisor: a lifetime ban from the securities industry. | | |  | | | | (Reuters) - Whenever Alan Greenspan was praised for delivering a clear message on U.S. monetary policy, he liked to reply something along the lines of: "If you think that, you have misunderstood what I said." Ben Bernanke prefers the opposite approach. | | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Getting old? There's an app for that. | | | | |  |  | | | 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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