financial markets

• Maryland

Clive Crook: Follow data on monetary policy

• Politics

Delaney joins Obama, Warren in announcing White House retirement proposal

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Delaney, who spent a career in financial services before running for Congress, joined President Barack Obama on Monday in calling for tougher regulations on brokers who help people plan for retirement -- offering his endorsement of a plan that is unlikely to sit well with some on Wall Street.

• Opinion

Why Greeks should dump the euro

By electing Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras to be premier, Greeks voted last week to end the draconian economic measures imposed by Germany and other international lenders. After the dust settles, German Chancellor Angela Merkel will either backpedal on the austerity imposed on Athens or accept Greece's exit from the euro.

• Opinion

Obama still reading from the same old script

President Obama has a particular weakness for the logical fallacy known as the argument from authority, says Jonah Goldberg.

• Opinion

The euro must go

To preserve Europe's economy, countries need to revert to individual currencies.

• Maryland

Let there be light

By early next year, certain residents of Westminster and tenants in the Air Business Park will have access to faster, more reliable Internet service for voice, video and data services.

• Opinion

The reverse Robin Hood [Commentary]

The Federal Reserve's efforts to boost the economy have made the poor poorer and the rich richer.

• Business

Legg restructures debt amid signs of turnaround

Legg Mason plans to close a deal to restructure $650 million in debt this month, a move designed to lock in favorable interest rates for the long term while taking advantage of the market's sustained appetite for corporate bonds.

• Maryland

How the Dow Jones industrial average did Friday

Summertime settled into Wall Street on Friday as major stock indexes drifted slightly higher going into the weekend.

• Maryland

Stocks head lower on Wall Street, led by banks

Banks and other financial firms tugged the stock market slightly lower Thursday as a mixed batch of economic reports and earnings results gave investors little reason to push the market up.

• Maryland

Stocks end lower as traders sell blue chips

• Business

SunTrust settlement to bring $33 million to Maryland

Maryland will receive $33 million from a nearly $1 billion joint state-federal settlement reached with SunTrust Mortgage Inc. over problems with its mortgage servicing and foreclosure procedures, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said Tuesday.

• Baltimore City Paper

Primer on the Federal Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

• Baltimore City Paper

It's The Acronymy, Stupid: $13.9 Trillion

• Baltimore City Paper

"They knew it. They knew that they were frauds."

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore vs. Banks

• Baltimore City Paper

Putting Two and Two Together

• Baltimore City Paper

Muni Maybe

• Baltimore City Paper

Krugman Needs a Weatherman

• Business

T. Rowe Price net income up nearly 26 percent for quarter

Baltimore money manager T. Rowe Price said Thursday that net income rose nearly 26 percent in the first three months of the year, compared with a year earlier, as revenue from investment advisory fees grew by more than $120 million.

• Howard County

Howard's ARL unveils NYSE ticker

The Applications and Research Laboratory's Academy of Finance unveiled a new data center, which includes a New York Stock Exchange ticker, on Friday, March 21.

• Business

Former Towson broker found liable for clients' retirement losses

A former Towson-based financial advisor for Signator Investors Inc. was found liable, along with the firm, for elderly clients' retirement losses, according to a Tuesday decision by arbitrators for a securities industry regulator.

• Stock Market

Pinched Daily Record owner faces restructuring

The Dolan Co., owner of The Daily Record, has signaled financial distress by hiring a restructuring officer, deciding against paying a dividend for the last quarter and disclosing that it received a warning from the New York Stock Exchange over its low stock price.

• Business

5 Questions for Michael D. Hankin, CEO of Brown Advisory

Interview with Michael D. Hankin, CEO of Brown Advisory

• Business

Investors wary and weary, but not panicked over debt ceiling standoff

Maryland financial advisers and money managers say investors are concerned but not panicked yet by debt ceiling brinkmanship

• Maryland

Mitch Edelman: Shutdown is nothing to be happy about

• Opinion

The over-leveraged GOP

Like investors who sparked the financial crisis, Republicans in Congress have overplayed their position and put the nation at risk.

• Opinion

Yes, Republicans, a default would be a really big deal

The reality-averse brigade in the GOP is pushing a showdown over the debt limit out of a refusal to be accept that facts trump politics.

• Maryland

Men's Wearhouse rejects Jos. A. Bank's bid, stock rises

• Business

Memories of the financial crisis, five years later

Maryland financial professionals look back on financial crisis and the repercussions still being felt

• Education

Five questions for Matthew Wyskiel

Baltimore's Matthew Wyskiel co-founded fundraiser that sells tickets to evening with area stock pickers.

• Opinion

Who should be the next Federal Reserve chair?

Maryland business and financial leaders say who they want as the next Fed chair

• Business

Bill Miller's fund is beating the market once more

Famed money manager Bill Miller's fund is once again beating the market, but analysts say its too early to know whether he's made a comeback.

• Maryland

Strategies 4 Success: Building a Savings Strategy that will Result in Ultimate Success

• Maryland

Caroline Baum: Bernanke was clear; Fed's crystal ball is cloudy

• National Security Agency

NSA chief says programs disrupted 50 terrorist plots

Under growing pressure over recently disclosed surveillance programs, the head of the National Security Agency told lawmakers on Tuesday that gathering telephone data and monitoring Internet use has helped to disrupt more than 50 "potential terrorist events" since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

• Business

Joseph Haskins Jr. navigated Harbor Bank of Maryland through tough times

Harbor Bank, a minority-owned commercial bank with nearly $251 million in assets, comes out from under heightened federal scrutiny.

• Business

T. Rowe Price, Legg Mason offering up ultrashort-term bond funds

Baltimore's two major fund companies have joined a small but growing number of investment firms offering ultra short-term bond funds, which may become an alternative to the traditional money market fund.

• Laws and Legislation

Harford government shouldn't be in the loan business [Editorial]

Once again, the government of Harford County, like many county and municipal governments around the state and nation, has perpetuated the practice of running a taxpayer-subsidized business banking system.

• Baltimore Ravens

Ravens games showing up more frequently on Washington-area TVs

Washington television -- and we're primarily talking about WUSA, the CBS affiliate -- has become very Ravens-friendly.

• Science

Academy of Finance students cash in on money matters

Wilde Lake High School senior Taylor Bruner has long had a penchant for money matters, and that insight has developed into a interest that may not only reap dividends after high school, but also helped her and three other like-minded students at Howard County's Applications and Research Lab capture a state finance competition.

• Baltimore City Paper

Baltimore's post-punk heroes hang up the glyph and launch new musical adventures

• Opinion

The BMA's shrinking staff

Layoffs of 14 employees at the Baltimore Museum of Art driven by lingering effects of the 2008 recession

• Business

Sullivan named Legg Mason CEO and president

Joseph A. Sullivan, who has served as interim leader of Legg Mason Inc. for more than four months, has been named CEO and president of the Baltimore-based money manager, the company announced this morning.

• Travel

Some Ravens fans booked for Denver trip while others contemplate cost

Some Ravens fans have already booked their trip to Denver for Saturday's playoff game against the Broncos, while others are contemplating the cost.

• Media Industry

U.S. stocks end higher despite negative news much of year

• Opinion

Fed's easy money will eventually trigger inflation

Peter Morici says the Fed's efforts to reduce the deficit and keep interest rates low will end badly

• Maryland

Bold moves pays off for Kamenetz

• Science

MedImmune creating drug pipeline for AstraZeneca

MedImmune leaders say the company is at a key point in developing drugs for AstraZeneca and has grown despite fears its acquisition would hurt Maryland.

• Sports

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones heading to Wall Street

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones will ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor on Friday.