Retirement Trends

An encouraging drop in claims for unemployment benefits helped the stock market edge higher in late morning trading Thursday.

A debate is raging among investors and analysts: Has the Federal Reserve inflated a stock market bubble by driving interest rates to record lows?

More than half of advisors believe the global economy will improve over the next 12 months, new research reveals.

MetLifes U.S. Pension Risk Behavior Index this year has reached the highest value it has ever recorded.

A series of weak economic reports pushed the stock market sharply lower Wednesday. Stocks fell to their lowest level in a month.

The U.S. government plans to sell another 30 million shares of General Motors stock in a public offering on Thursday as it speeds up efforts to divest itself from a stake in the auto giant that it got in a bailout four years ago.