Study finds the agency's staff aren't better than other investors at picking stocks, but are better at selling shares before they decline in value.

Investors' risk aversion at the beginning of the year has given way to increasing confidence in equity markets.

Though both parties agree the major tax code reforms are unlikely to happen this year, lobbying against some of the proposals is already furious.

U.S. corporate boards of directors think the economy will continue to recover in 2014, but slowly.