Analysts' Comments

* Main mining union NUM seeks wage hikes of up to 60 pct * Gold companies' shares drop, rand also under pressure * Threat of mines unrest is headache for ruling ANC * NUM rival AMCU now dominates tense platinum sector By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, May...

* IEA predicts rising supply from U.S. * U.S. crude inventories rose by 1.1 mln bbls, above f'cast -API * Brent to drop to $101.35 -technicals * Coming up: U.S. EIA weekly crude stocks at 1430 GMT By Manash Goswami SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) - Brent...

Philip Falcone, the onetime Chisholm rink rat who became a billionaire hedge fund manager, has agreed along with his firm to pay $18 million to settle a year-old fraud lawsuit accusing Falcone of using other people's money to pay his personal taxes and...

By Jed Horowitz NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Sontag Advisory, which oversees $3.6 billion of investments for wealthy families and individuals, has reversed its policy of accepting payments from Charles Schwab Corp and Fidelity Investments for recommending...

They didn't call him "Ace" for nothing. Asaph Schwapp was a stellar football player and even better young man who was emerging as a leader in Greater Hartford. His death Wednesday at age 26 from non-Hodgkins lymphoma is sad beyond words. Mr. Schwapp was...

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Philip Falcone's fall from hedge fund stardom deepened on Thursday when a public company he controls disclosed that the billionaire investor had reached a preliminary settlement with U.S. securities regulators...

* SocGen latest bank to announce cost-savings plan * Q1 results overall better than expected -analysts * Domestic loan-loss provisions rise at both banks * Investment banking, asset sales among bright spots (Adds analyst comments, share prices, Credit...

* Revenue up 8.1 percent at $974.8 million * Client assets rise 11.3 percent to $394 billion * CFO says "fiscal cliff" deal encouraged investors * Shares up 3.1 percent By Ashley Lau April 25 (Reuters) - LPL Financial Holdings Inc reported higher...

By Suzanne Barlyn April 22 (Reuters) - An Arizona-based investment adviser must pay a unit of Charles Schwab Corp a total of slightly over $4.1 million in damages stemming from an options trading error, according to a securities arbitration panel ruling....

Just about any big run-up of the stock markets is irrational at some point, but Tuesday's record celebration has to be the biggest head-scratcher since the bull market of 2000, for anyone not schooled in the weird ways of Wall Street. By almost any...

After years of budgetary gloom and shortfalls in the billions of dollars, Maryland's fiscal forecasters offered lawmakers a brighter outlook Tuesday, saying the state's operating budget could be just $27 million in the red next fiscal year. Top fiscal...

A federal grand jury indicted a Baltimore financial adviser Tuesday for mail fraud in an alleged scheme to defraud vulnerable clients including an 85-year-old with dementia of more than $838,500, according to the U.S. attorney for the District of...