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Advisors and consumers revealed different views on where the economy and markets are headed in December, for the second month in a row.

Stocks edged lower for a fifth day on concern that Washington lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal before a year-end deadline. If stocks end the day lower, it will mark the longest losing streak in three months.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ordered a New Jersey company to pay more than $10.7 million in restitution, plus interest, to customers who placed mutual fund orders with Pruco Securities, LLC, via facsimile or paper orders from late 2003 to June 2011 and received an inferior price for their...

Genworth's research finds some serious holes in life insurance saturation, posing some additional retirement security issues for unmarried parents.

Borrowing - but promising to repay - up to $185 billion in federal pension savings might offer the U.S. Treasury some breathing room to wait out the fiscal cliff crisis.

Living through an ongoing period of low interest rates can cut a participant's retirement savings by as much as half, a new Prudential study reports.