If you think you're going to get rich investing in the stock market, you are a victim of the biggest investing con.
U.S. News & World Report | Kirk Shinkle | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
With a little luck, the economy and the stock market should hit bottom sometime this year. In fact, there's a chance that both already have, although ...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Avoiding financial calamity is a good thing and it does appear that the global economy is past the worst point in the cycle, but a self-sustained recovery is not necessarily in the bag.
Alan Schram | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business
It should be obvious to all that we can't get out from under our mountain of debt through spending.
Michael Russnow | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
This 1:20 split smells, to me, a bit too rancid for the ordinary shareholders, not to mention the U.S. public who are hoping to recover their investment.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business
In recent weeks, as the market stalled, investors have gone back on a starvation diet. So what's next? If this past week is any indication, look for a resumption of financial heartburn.
N. E. Marsden | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
Pioneers in the field of neurofinance are searching for the right neurococktail of emotion and logic for today's fast-paced electronic marketplace.
Dan Solin | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business
When investors got clobbered in 2008, the most common lament was: "I had no idea I could lose that much in the market."
Dan Dorfman | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business
Oil is going up, interest rates are going up and unemployment will go --- all bad things --- and yet they're not killing the market. One money manager says that means the upward trend remains intact.
Henry Blodget | Posted 06.09.2009 | Business
Your money manager has walloped the market by 5% per year for the past 10 years, so he's obviously a genius, right? Actually, no. He had a 1-in-5 chance of doing that just by throwing darts.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 06.03.2009 | Business
Veteran San Francisco money manager Gary Wollin expects a "buying panic" -- a veritable flood of new stock purchases -- to kick off any day now and push the equity market appreciably higher.
Michael J. Panzner | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business
In recent months, the spread between short and long-term bond yields has increased significantly, hitting record extremes. Many market-watchers believ...
Lesley Stern | Posted 05.29.2009 | Comedy
Many banks won't accept deposits of less than $100. Those that do tend to get a little uppity when presented with a deposit in 20 lbs. of rolled pennies.
AP | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business
NEENAH, Wis. — If your stock portfolio isn't performing as well as you'd like, maybe you could hand it over to these fifth-graders. Four student...
Ryan Mack | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business
Employees are now burdened with the responsibility of planning for their own retirement since defined contribution plans became the norm.
Amy Domini | Posted 05.20.2009 | Business
Government continues to be surprisingly effective in fighting the economic battle, in creatively looking at ways to tax, to incentivize good behavior, and in raising America's reputation abroad.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.13.2009 | Business
The market bottom, contrary to renewed market enthusiasm stemming from the recent rally, still remains a long way off.
N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business
Wall Street has come up with a new twist on "insider trading": brain science. Neuroeconomics and Neurofinance give new meaning to the term "Pandora's Box."
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business
Hey, maybe I need a new pair of eyeglasses. The last time I looked, the financial scene appeared unmistakably cloudy and ominous. Not so to Wall Street's bulls.
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Fed confirmed what Wall Street has already concluded: The recession is starting to ease. Federal Reserve policymakers said at th...
Diane Francis | Posted 04.23.2009 | Business
The Wall Street Journal story today reveals that the Bank of America's CEO claims he was told by Bernanke and Paulson to remain silent about the disas...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 04.22.2009 | Business
What are the best ways to play China and other Asian markets, which should also benefit handsomely from the Chinese rebound?
Tom Morris | Posted 04.20.2009 | Living
Who would have guessed that the world's most popular fictional wizard could teach us all a thing or two, or five, about courage, change, and dealing with daunting challenge?
Dan Dubno | Posted 04.20.2009 | Comedy
We have collectively weathered the Bernie Madoff fraud, the debauchery at AIG, the insolvency of Fannie Mae, I found the overall approach of this latest financial offer more troubling than usual.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Investors are back to worrying about banks. Long-present unease about soured loans bubbled over on Monday after Bank of America Corp...
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Dan Solin | Posted 07.07.2009 | Business