Retirement Trends

The stock market is opening higher after DuPont Co. said it is exploring a sale of its performance chemicals unit and China pledged to maintain growth.

The federal judge overseeing Detroit's bankruptcy set the first hearing in the case for Wednesday after the city urged him to stop pensioners from filing lawsuits that could gum up plans to restructure billions of dollars in debt.

The stock market edged higher as a big week of earnings kicked off Monday.

Stocks are opening slightly lower on Wall Street as traders are mostly unimpressed with the latest batch of corporate earnings.

Although the report was optimistic on the whole, of the almost 100 institutional money managers queried, 62 percent said they expect rates to rise in the next three months.

Somewhere in all that data are the answers to the questions retirement plan advisors and their clients ask routinely.