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For more than a year, Republicans have been hammering Democrats for what they say are the hefty economic costs of new financial regulations.

Governments are falling, bond yields are zigzagging by whole percentage points and markets around the world are locking up. The eurozone turmoil risks turning into a global crisis.

And you thought the U.S. stocks were out of favor.

"Emerging markets are just a niche asset class" persistently remains as one of the five biggest myths about investing in emerging markets, said John Flint, chief executive officer of HSBC Global Asset Management.

Investment banking and brokerage firm Stephens Inc. has named John Baumgartner managing director and co-head of equity capital markets.

Fund managers are always looking for solid returns and growth in assets under management.

A majority of finance professionals are cautiously optimistic about growth in 2012, according to a survey by Accounting Principals, a finance and accounting staffing company.

The SEC's newly enacted Rule 13h-1 requires “large traders” to register to be assigned an identification number that will allow tracking of its transactions.

Direct Edge plans to launch an all-electronic platform for the trading of Brazilian equities. The exchange will be headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and launch, if all goes according to plan, by the end of 2012.

The SEC has ordered broker-dealer FTN Financial Securities to pay nearly $2 million for allowing a registered investment advisor, Sentinel Management, to defraud its clients through a reverse repurchase transaction.