Many mutual funds, especially index funds, are designed to resemble the market as a whole, so the government's decision to borrow trillions has prompted them to buy more and more Treasury bonds.

The lightly regulated registered investment advisor industry may offer few protections for investors who wind up with incompetent advisors.

Some states are trimming the tax due on estates or inheritances when someone dies, while others are raising them. Even more change is coming, complicating estate planners' efforts to preserve as much wealth as possible.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said at an investor conference that the Trump administration's plan for Fannie and Freddie would provide more opportunities for financial institutions. He also called for an end to the U.S.-China trade war and weighed in on the prospect of interest rates falling to zero.

Senate Banking Committee members feel urgency to pass a bill dealing with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but the same obstacles that have stalled congressional action for years remain.

For the third time in five months, the San Francisco bank made a downward revision Monday to its guidance on net interest income. An executive cited the impact of lower interest rates.

The more employees who can confidently tell their bank's story, the better positioned a bank will be to build relationships and earn business.

A former attorney with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency asks why regulators have failed to finalize the rules to implement Section 956 of Dodd-Frank, enacted more than a decade ago.

In his new book, "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021," economist and former Federal Reserve vice chair Alan Blinder tells the tale of how economic conventional wisdom has evolved over the last half-century.