ETNs: What Every Investor Should Know

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Index Funds
There was a time not long ago when nobody knew what an ETF was. But as of Nov. 30, assets in the U.S. exchange-traded fund industry totaled approximately $739 billion, after climbing $50.3 billion or 7.3% durin...

Goldman Sachs Back at Top in M&A

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Insurance Industry
Fraud charges and criticism over bonus payments have not hurt Goldman Sachs Group's (GS) position as a global mergers and acquisitions powerhouse. In the first half of 2010, Goldman was No.1 in deals during the...

U.S. Stock Markets Closed on Presidents Day

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Nasdaq
The global economy is a perpetual motion machine, but U.S. stock markets do take breaks: In addition to the weekends, there are nine holidays on which the stock exchange is shuttered. One of them is coming up ...

Nasdaq Fined $10 Million for Facebook IPO Snafu

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Nasdaq
Spencer Platt/Getty Images WASHINGTON -- Nasdaq has agreed to pay $10 million, the largest penalty ever levied against a stock exchange, to settle civil charges stemming from mistakes made during Facebook's i...