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Mexico’s pension funds are selling government bonds as they prepare for faster inflation, clashing with foreign investors such as Pacific Investment Management Co. who have bought the debt to profit from an oil-led growth boom.

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio’s plan to pump $1 billion of New York’s $144 billion in pension assets into apartments for poor and working-class residents faces constraints including competition from banks and declining federal aid.

Buoyed by its success on the West Coast, Operation Hope is partnering with the likes of SunTrust and Popular Community Bank to set up its financial literacy centers in such cities as Memphis, Atlanta, Washington and New York.

Susquehanna Bancshares is doing a sale-leaseback of 30 branches to improve its capital planning. But over the long term, and more importantly to the industry overall, it could also help the bank get out of branches that may one day become obsolete.

A pair of longtime Suntrust financial advisors have hooked up with LPL Financial to form their own practice.

Because I specialize in planning for teachers, I follow a number of teachers on Twitter -- and it turns out they share information like crazy. They have multiple chats throughout the week and help each other out with their daily problems.

A new report finds that advisors, investors and financial providers have been using the term inconsistently -- and perhaps incorrectly.

Pacific Investment Management Co. and BlackRock Inc. are set to take over Eike Batista’s failed oil ambitions as creditors accept losses as deep as 99 percent on $5.8 billion of debt in return for ownership stakes.

Treasury 10-year yields climbed to the highest level in more than two years as signs of a quickening recovery boosted speculation the Federal Reserve will keep reducing debt purchases.

The question triggers a whole array of responses. But after a five-year onslaught of new rules and enforcement, some see a brighter regulatory future for banks.