Thanks to higher interest rates and higher stock prices, plan funded status improved dramatically in 2013although it's still below 100 percent.

To what degree are increases in bond yields affecting the refinancing of sovereign debt around the world?

Detroit requests approval for new settlement to get out of swaps contracts originally designed to protect pension fund against rising interest rates.

The much-publicized regulation requires significant changes for banks. Heres how it will affect derivatives end users.

Fears over 'wildly overvalued' stock prices may be wildly overblown.

Why has the slump in mergers and acquisitions continued, even as the U.S. economy and stock markets recover and European debt crisis eases?

Financial institutions are said to be racing to share evidence of FX price fixing with EU regulators, in exchange for immunity.

Amid regulator probes into manipulation of benchmark interest rates and FX rates, Goldman Sachs has reportedly banned traders from using chat rooms with counterparts at more than one bank.