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Florida's Supreme Court has approved moves to force state employees to contribute cash to their own retirement plans.

The world has no yet escaped the risk of a collapse in the global economy despite some renewed investor confidence heading into 2013.

Federal Reserve officials in 2007 badly underestimated the scope of the approaching financial crisis and how it would tip the U.S. economy into the deepest recession since the Great Depression, transcripts of the Fed's policy meetings that year show.

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal that seeks to shut down class-action lawsuits from investors who lost billions in a massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford.

Can a new federal watchdog do what the SEC, the DOL and even FINRA haven't been able to do when it comes to protecting retirement plans in the U.S.?

The fund's $9.5 billion portfolio includes about $146,000 invested in Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp.