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The May 6 Flash Crash has sent the Investment Company Institute into action. The Washington trade association wants a better handle on high-frequency trading and dark pools. Not only is the ICI asking this clandestine corner of the market for more information, but it’s urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to look closer, too.

Equity investors could not shake off their anxieties about the European sovereign debt crisis, and what that would mean for credit markets here.

Putnam Investments plans to continue to aggressively expand its array of products even as market volatility has forced some competitors to retrench.

WASHINGTON — House conferees finalizing the regulatory reform bill unexpectedly proposed Tuesday to add sweeping provisions that would greatly expand deposit insurance coverage, but it remained unclear if their Senate counterparts would accept the package.

Investor-adviser relations are considerably improving, Fidelity Investments and National Financial found in a survey of 350 investors and 218 brokers and advisers.

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Monday said the creation of a system of monitoring overall risks to the nation's financial industry could take one of eight forms, each of which would be costly.

WSJ's June 15 "Fund Track" column picks up on the continuing price wars among ETF providers, Fidelity, Vanguard, iShares, Van Eck and Schwab, notwithstanding.

Chief executives are feeling optimistic about the U.S. economy over the next 12 months for the first time since the second quarter of 2007, with CEOs of private companies with international operations being slightly more optimistic than those that are only domestic.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--Banks expect hybrid annuities with long-term-care riders to be the next hot product on brokerage platforms, as soon as product providers ramp up their offerings in this area, a Kehrer-Limra executive said.

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