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White House memo confuses Wall Street on fate of fiduciary rule

February 7, 2017 By

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Conflicting signs from the White House have left brokerage firms and lobbyists unsure whether a controversial rule governing retirement advice will ever be put in place, but they are taking no chances and complying anyway. President Donald Trump's Friday memorandum ordered the Labor Department to review the so-called “fiduciary” rule, which requires brokers to put their clients' interests first when advising them about 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. Trump's memo did not go as far as White House early guidance to reporters that the memo would ask the department to “defer implementation” of the rule.

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Wall Street stands with two Fed-hike outlook for 2017: Reuters poll

February 3, 2017 By

Wall Street's top banks expect just two rate hikes from the Federal Reserve this year and see only modest risk to the U.S. central bank being pressed into a more aggressive pace of monetary policy tightening, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. The poll of primary dealers – the 23 banks that do business directly with the Fed – indicated none expect the next rate hike to occur before the second quarter, despite a report on Friday that employers added far more workers than expected in January. While the Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly non-farm payrolls report showed employment growth continues to be healthy, wages are not keeping pace, leading many to predict the Fed will stick to a leisurely pace of rate hikes.

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Warren Buffett: I bought $12 billion of stock after Trump won

February 1, 2017 By

Buffett revealed that he has bought $12 billion of stock for his company Berkshire Hathaway Inc since the Republican Donald Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential election. In an interview with talk show host Charlie Rose that aired on Friday night, Buffett suggested that Berkshire's post-election stock purchases overall were even higher, reflecting stocks that his deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler bought.

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