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The Dow Jones Industrial Average inched up 2.71 points Tuesday to close at 13.172.14 while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq trimmed 0.58 points and 5.54 points, respectively. Here are some more details from Tuesday's trading session: Dow Jones Industrial Average: Up six of the past eight trading days. An intraday high of 13223.01 occurred at 09:32:19 today, representing an increase of 53.58 points, or 0.41%. An intraday low of 13142.10 occurred at 15:53:39 today, representing a decrease of down 27.33…

As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

U.S. debt yields put you asleep. But you better be on your toes, with the adventure involved in emerging market bonds.

As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

First Trust Advisors has rolled out two new ETFs based on NASDAQ indices. The First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund and the Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund, which is based on the NASDAQ Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index, began trading Tuesday on NASDAQ.

WallachBeth Capital, an institutional brokerage firm, has created the WallachBeth Healthcare Research Group.

Equity fund investors appear to be exiting from mutual funds and investing in ETFs instead. Fixed income funds are a different story.

On August 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

First Trust Advisors has rolled out the First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund and the Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund.

On August 10, 2012, U.S. debt yields put you asleep. But you better be on your toes, with the adventure involved in emerging market bonds.

Global investors are betting on a short-term bounce in equities, boosted by expectations that the European Central Bank will engage in so-called quantitative easing by the year end, a Bank of America Corp. survey showed.

Howard C. Greene, the lead portfolio manager for the John Hancock Bond Fund, has just passed the 10-year milestone at the helm of the $1.4 billion fund.

The Value Line Asset Allocation Fund has been added to the Schwab Mutual Fund OneSource Select List. It's one of seven asset allocation funds among the 23 third-party funds selected for the "additional fund categories" section of the OneSource Select List.

Money-market fund companies obtained permission to support 155 of their funds during the financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, and six more funds got the same go- ahead since the crisis, according to a list provided to Congress by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Bond fund sales grew at a record pace with $350 billion in net inflows during the first half of 2012, according to Strategic Insight, a New York-based research firm. The trend is most dramatic in Europe, where investors are migrating to high-yield, emerging and global debt, according to the firm.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 38.52 points to close at 13,169.43 - ending a six-day winning streak. The S&P 500 also trimmed 1.76 points to finish at 1,404.11 and the Nasdaq inched up 1.66 points.

In the first half of 2012, tons of cash flowed out of non-qualified annuities, according to the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

Bond fund sales grew at a record pace during the first half of 2012, according to Strategic Insight. Equity funds recorded net redemptions in aggregate.

Money-market fund companies obtained permission to support 155 of their funds during the financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, and six more funds got the same go- ahead since the crisis, according to a list provided to Congress by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Value Line Asset Allocation Fund has been added to the Schwab Mutual Fund OneSource Select List. The fund is ranked in Lipper's top 12% for the 10-year period.