Morningstar Inc. began publishing credit ratings Wednesday, adding to its equity and mutual fund research. The company published ratings for 100 of the largest U.S. public companies and said it plans to produce ratings for up to 1,000 companies covered by its equity research. Morningstar's move ...

Morningstar Inc., an investment information provider, broke a Nasdaq rule that prohibits members of its board's audit committee from getting direct or indirect compensation from the firm other than their board pay. Nasdaq determined that Morningstar audit committee member, Cheryl Francis, put the firm out ...

Stocks always rise over the long haul. Bonds are for retirees and investors with little taste for risk. Companies rarely cut their dividends. Those are three of the long-followed rules of investing — and rules that, as investors learned during a year of the stock market's worst turmoil ...

Morningstar Inc. said Wednesday it is launching ratings and detailed reports on target-date funds. The style of mutual funds have been criticized for losing significant value as the stock market deteriorated last year even though they were sold as safe investments for retirement. The average 2010 target-date fund, for example, lost 25 percent last year ...