A survey showed that bearishness among retail investors reached 20 percent, a 10 percent increase from December.

Create a tax plan, an income plan and an investment plan. Otherwise all your money is slipping through your fingers.

There was a mixed response to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's comments last week on a time frame for future interest rate increases, with some analysts viewing it as a mistake and others finding it encouraging.

Bullard noted that in 2006, the housing prices had already started to peak at the same time the Fed was tightening its policy.

Employers face a 52 percent increase in the regulatory cost of administering pension plans by 2016 as well as a whopping $150 billion increase in liabilities to retirees with longer life spans.

A significant number of workers have been forced to cut back their spending and plan to delay retirement, many until age 70 or after.

The interest rates offered by major banks operating in New Orleans, Houston, Boston, and Burlington, Vt., are 31-54 percent higher than the national average, the survey found.

The House passes a bill that will make it easier for charities and cooperatives to continue to pool pension plans for their employees.