The appetite of the fixed income investor is voracious. Apple was the course of the day with the largest issuance of corporate bonds in the history of our republic for $17 billion.

For Marvin Burrows, the grief of losing his partner in 2005 was quickly followed by a different emotion: devastation as his financial life crumbled ar...

Morgan Stanley's first-quarter profit dropped nearly 50 percent, hurt by a decline in fixed income trading revenue. The investment bank and brokera...

Just what is at the root of the EU's troubles? And how do last week's events with Portugal exemplify the problem?

After pulling in their biggest haul in three years last quarter, bank profits have hit a wall in the first two weeks of September, The Financial Time...

I happened to be in Madrid last week on the day Spain was downgraded. It was portrayed by the media as a catastrophic situation. Now is not the time for over dramatization.

While Alan Greenspan has been busy denying any blame or foresight into the financial crisis, Paul Volcker has been working to dissociate the speculative risks of hedge funds from banking. But "The Volcker Rule," does not go far enough.

The boutique derivatives and fixed income firm Pali Capital, Elinor Comlay writes, was "an oasis of prosperity," before suddenly imploding with Bradle...

Wall Street firms have received fees exceeding $1 billion in less than a year selling "Build America Bonds" meant to spur jobs in struggling cities, o...

I am thinking about the millions of workers who were cut loose by their partners, their government, their businesses, their bosses, their schools, institutions. The rope has been cut.

LONDON -- The bond vigilantes are back. But this time they are roaming mostly through Europe rather than the United States -- at least for now. Their...

I tend to believe that the Glass-Steagall approach, an institutional way to address the question, overlooks the importance of a market response.

It now takes about 10 cents on every tax dollar collected just to pay the interest on the debt. As bad as that is, it's only because interest rates are at record lows that the debt is still manageable.

BlackRock boss Larry Fink may want to thank the Federal Reserve for handing him a fistful of new business yesterday. As part of JPMorgan's sweetened ...

WASHINGTON — Confidence in the economy dropped to a new low as worries about a possible recession, persistent problems in the housing and credit...

It's shaping up to be a blue bonus season for employees at Merrill Lynch. Probable, continued massive writedowns at the investment bank are weighing ...