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Wall Street's own watchdog filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp., accusing the online brokerage giant of requiring customers to waive their rights to pursue certain legal action against the firm, a violation of industry rules.

The U.S. Labor Department has removed a controversial part of its proposed 401(k) fee disclosure rule that would have required retirement plan providers to create a summary document, or "roadmap," of all their fees for employers.

Since its inception in November 2004, the average annual return of State Street Gold Shares has been 18.72%. By comparison, the S&P 500 has returned half of 1% a year in that time.

Ameriprise’s Advice and Wealth Management Business saw its pretax operating earnings fall 14% to $83 million in the fourth quarter compared to the same period one year ago as a result of volatility that gripped the markets and increased investment in the unit, the firm said in its earnings release Wednesday.

Authority details its top concerns in a letter directed to the industry’s compliance officers.

Wall Street snapped out of its four-day funk Wednesday thanks in large part to some encouraging economic data from Europe and China. The Dow gained 83.55 points to end at 12,716.46.

Overall investor confidence fell in January. In North America, the decline was small; in Europe it was significnat; and in Asia, confidence actually increased.

A media shy financial advisor in Silicon Valley, Divesh Makan of Iconiq Capital, stands to bring in a potentially historic haul of new assets under management when Facebook launches its long-anticipated IPO.

For some stocks, the January Effect never took hold. Here's a look at the five Dow component stocks that lost the most ground in the first month of the year.

Investors displayed faith in all types of mutual funds for the week ended Wednesday, January 25, adding a total of $11.6 billion to equity, bond and hybrid funds, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute.