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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, in Europe to meet with regulators in London and Paris, said they shouldn’t necessarily overreact to the credit crisis by imposing additional regulations, Dow Jones reports.

The combination of a sign of a slowdown in jobs and an inverted yield curve proved to be the harbinger of a recession in 1990 and again in 2001. And the two ominous signs have propped up again, The New York Times reports.

Morningstar has introduced five commodity futures indexes, the Morningstar Long/Short, Long/Flat, Short/Flat, Long-Only and Short-Only Commodity Indexes. Each consists of a combination of long futures, short futures and cash.

Russell Investment Group Senior Strategist Richard K. Fullmer has offered a new approach to retirement income planning in a recent issue of The Journal of Financial Planning.

Vanguard has updated its intranet to improve collaboration, so that employees can better communicate with one another and the platform can serve as testing ground for new interactive tools for customers, Information Week reports.

Lifecycle funds are now taking another punch, and while this one may not be fully merited, it is one that fund companies might want to consider as a roadmap to improving such funds' performance and marketability.

Confluence, a provider of automated data management solutions, has launched Unity, an integrated platform that automates and integrates critical fund administration processes.

With the Federal Reserve expected to cut rates further on Tuesday, mutual fund managers are taking a closer look at particular sectors—

During its earnings call last week, U.S. Global Investors indicated that the company is considering launched an infrastructure fund, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

TD Ameritrade had one of its databases hacked and contact information stolen on more than 6.3 million customers, according to the Associated Press.