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June 11, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The average daily volume of Vanguard Total Stock Market VIPERS shares traded during their first week on the market was 1,182,533 shares per...

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Average US Hedge Fund returned 1.7% net of fees, outperforming the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which returned minus 0.2%...

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although it has found no evidence that institutional customers are suffering from the switch to decimal pricing, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)...

June 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Trading was suspended for almost four hours today at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) following a glitch in recently installed trading software.

June 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of initial unemployment insurance claims reached 432,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis, its highest level in nearly nine years, according to...

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small-cap value funds topped mutual fund category returns in May, according to fund-tracker Lipper Inc.

June 5, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The decade-long bull run saw institutional investors making long term investments of vast amounts of money in private equity, money which is now...

June 4, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Developed markets slipped in May, with the US interest rate cuts failing to calm fears of a global recession.

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) plans to amend its rules to resolve a spat between large financial institutions and market makers, stemming...

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monthly unemployment unexpectedly fell to 4.4% in May, the first decrease since September last year.

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Real-time prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average will be calculated 6.5 hours before the US market opens, once the index begins trading...

June 1, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today's unemployment numbers could provide more questions than answers, as the Bureau of Labor Statistics unveils the impact of some structural changes in...

May 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's mutual funds rose another 4.8% in April, totaling $6.945 trillion according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI).

May 31, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The latest Department of Labor data releases show the lines of people signing up for first time unemployment benefits growing longer by 8,000...

May 30, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drop in the market in the last few months has caused a shift towards more conservative holdings like certificates of deposit (CDs)...

May 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Vanguard continues to draw investor money in droves, pulling in more than twice as much as runner-up American Funds through the end of...

May 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of shareholder lawsuits alleging securities fraud declined in 2000 for the second consecutive year, as accounting violations continued to be one...

May 25, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Total exchange-traded fund (ETF) assets were $73.33 billion at the end of April 2001, up more than 11% from a revised $66 billion...

May 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Initial unemployment insurance claim figures were up sharply to 407,000 for the week ending May 19, 116,000 higher than the same period last...

May 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Regulators voiced concern about complaints that decimalization has brought an increase in market specialists undercutting investors and possibly hurting smaller investors.