What the Return of Market Volatility Tells Us
The renewed volatility in stocks last week was due to conflicting signs of additional central bank liquidity support, both in Europe and the US.
The renewed volatility in stocks last week was due to conflicting signs of additional central bank liquidity support, both in Europe and the US.
Roger Martin | Posted 03.18.2012
Critics of eliminating the focus on stock-based compensation argue that investors deserve a return on their investment; that management must work assiduously to maximize the stock price. This argument plays fast and loose with logic.
William Lazonick | Posted 12.06.2011
Rather than invest profits in building a strong economy, corporate executives invest in their own pay.
Slate | Bethany McLean | Posted 10.31.2011
It's not even a week old, and Warren Buffett's deal to invest $5 billion of Berkshire Hathaway's money in Bank of America has already been dissected, ...
New York Times | FLOYD NORRIS | Posted 10.15.2011
As is often the case when market gyrations become excessive, governments have good reasons to hope that the significance, if any, lies in market imper...
Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 10.15.2011
The economy is flatlining. Global financial markets are in turmoil. Your stock price is down about 15 percent in three weeks. Your customers have lost...
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 10.09.2011
NEW YORK -- Wall Street started the week with its worst single day since December 2008 Monday. But it followed up on Tuesday with its best day since M...
AP | PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 10.09.2011
WASHINGTON — What little confidence consumers have is being undermined by the tumult on Wall Street. Americans struggling with lean wages and j...
New York Times | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 10.05.2011
The main problem for the stock market is obviously the economy. But it’s not the only problem. Stocks are also under pressure because they are fairl...
Posted 09.07.2011
Morgan Stanley downgraded Google Inc a notch to "equal-weight," saying the search giant's margins will shrink as it undertakes aggressive hiring a...
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
While Wall Street's bull market is making America's rich even richer, most Americans continue to be mired in a worsening housing crisis that the administration is incapable of stemming, and of which Wall Street has now seemingly washed its hands.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
The masses, namely the army of retail investors, are starting to get swayed by signs of a peppier economy and rebounding equity prices. But there are still plenty of lurking nightmares out there.
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011
What will the Federal Reserve's massive $900 billion plan actually accomplish? As HuffPost's Shahien Nasiripour pointed out yesterday, the Fed's new a...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011
Compensation of CEOs is generally deemed outrageous. But what is now at stake, is that, while the amounts themselves are outrageous, their correlation to performance is questionable, too.
N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.25.2011
Every once in awhile, a journalistic ray of light exposes how far our financial system has veered from anything resembling objective reality.
Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011
Once you view the real numbers on PE ratios and dividend yields, it is hard to make an argument that stocks are cheap.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
The unmistakable message from the growing market worries and swings in stock prices is that as far as most investors go, the market's nightmares are not about to vanish anytime soon.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011
This story was updated at 4:30 p.m. ET to reflect the market's close. Wall Street is already betting that a Republican win in Massachusetts will comp...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011
Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?
Pablo Triana | Posted 05.25.2011
The world at large was being told something which was plainly not true. The real innovators were ignored, the faked ones were glorified.
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Wall Street retreated Monday as continuing violence in the Middle East and a resulting jump in oil prices reminded investors that the...
Ron Galloway | Posted 05.25.2011
Ten years ago Microsoft stock was $33/share. Today it's $19. That's a return to shareholders of -40%. Ten years ago Apple stock was $8. Today it's $91. That's a return, um, higher than -40%.
Diane Francis | Posted 05.25.2011
Far be it from me to contradict one of the world's greatest stock sages and business analysts. But I will.
Los Angeles Times | Tom Petruno | Posted 05.25.2011
When the stock market goes on sale, smart investors are supposed to seize the opportunity. But Wall Street's decline of the last three weeks has been...
New York Times | Edmund L. Andrews | Posted 05.25.2011
Impelled to take extraordinary measures for the second time in less than a week, the Federal Reserve moved on Tuesday to subdue the deepening crisis i...
Mohamed A. El-Erian | Posted 04.15.2012