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Dow industrials extend monthly win streak to five

The Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required) is reporting that four large brokerage houses gave their CEO’s an average 33% pay raise after their stocks rose on average 4.7%. not bad. I wonder who is paying for the difference.
It’s Good to be the King

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2012-34
Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2012 ? The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a rule proposal to help protect investors from identity theft by ensuring that broker-dealers, mutual funds, and other SEC-regulated entities create programs to detect and respond appropriately to red flags.
The SEC issued the proposal jointly with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Section 1088 of the Dodd-Frank Act transferred authority over certain parts of the fair Credit Reporting Act from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the SEC and CFTC for entities they regulate. …

With a rocky economic landscape and ever-increasing longevity to contend, annuities have had a tough year. but the clouds could finally be clearing

Light at the end of the tunnel

AXA Advisors Awards top National Honor to Florida Businesswoman
Peggy Hollander Receives Highest Honor For AXA Advisors’ Financial Professionals
becomes first Woman to Receive this Honor
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Peggy Hollander, founder and ManagingDirector of the Succession Group, inc., Miami, Fla., and a financialprofessional for AXA Advisors, LLC, has earned AXA Advisors’ 2005 NationalHonor Associate Award, it was announced today by Christopher M. “Kip” Condron,President and CEO of AXA Financial, inc., one of the premier U.S.organizations in financial protection and wealth management. the award, established nearly seven decades …

NASCAR kicks off every new racing season with its biggest race, the Daytona 500. This 2012 event is getting added attention thanks to driver Danica Patrick and two Republican presidential candidates. Danica daze: OK, the really big news first. Danica will be making her Daytona 500 debut. she won the pole for yesterday’s Nationwide Daytona… …
Danica, Daytona and politics

It’s impossible to predict the financial markets. Why? sure, economists can do a good job explaining what has already happened.? But with millions of variables, it’s impossible to credibly and repeatedly predict how things will move going forward.? does that mean you should give up on trying to do the smart thing with you investments?
Instead, be sure to follow proven strategies.? Although proven strategies such as periodic rebalancing won’t make you immediately rich, they can do wonders to keep you from losing your shirt.? Learn how periodically rebalancing forces you …

In the coming days and weeks, leading Democrats will make the case that their historic trouncing at the polls last night was the inevitable fallout of a brutal economy. There’s a bit of d?j? vu here: George Bush blamed his plummeting approval ratings on an unpopular war.
It’s not just the economy, stupid