Five Myths the Recession Taught Us
During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.
During the course of the past few months, several myths came to bear on the struggling economy that will play out through 2010 to create enormous opportunities in the market and the economy.
Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
And the winner is... Ford Motors. Of all of the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, Ford has shown the biggest leap in value since Presiden...
Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Let's get our bearings here. What is short-selling? NYU Professor of Finance Steven Figlewski can explain: "You sell the stock with the expectation, ...
AP | SARA LEPRO and TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Grim signals about consumer spending ripped through the markets Friday, sending stocks tumbling as investors raced for safe havens. ...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
Main Street Americans are struggling to pay their bills, while Wall Street executives are getting record bonuses. Two Americas; trust me it's more than just a campaign slogan.
Wall Street Journal | JANET ADAMY and GREG HITT | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The drug industry stands to gain in a health-care overhaul by getting tens of millions of newly insured customers, while insurance companies -- especi...
AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
MIAMI — Three men are accused of running a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from hundreds of Haitian-American investors in South ...
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
With investments, mob psychology takes over. People get greedy at the top and afraid at the bottom. At the end of the day, they almost always default in favor of sleeping at night.
James Altucher | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
We live in a world of nightmares. But understanding these worries -- the myriad ways the world could end -- and hedging against them is the way to turn the fear into greed, the nightmare into a dream.
Dan Solin | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
There is an asset allocation that is best for you. Based on the risk of that asset allocation, IFA has a recommended holding period that improves your chances of achieving the expected return.
The Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
On Monday, Fannie Mae jumped 41.7 percent, to $1.70 per share, with nearly 824 million shares bought or sold during regular trading hours. Freddie Mac...
AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Dow Jones Industrial Average could get a new name. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that its publisher, Dow Jones & Co., ...
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business
I invest my clients' portfolios by focusing on their cash needs first: renovations to a house, capital calls from other investments, and tuition for example. These discussions are tangible.
Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
Goldman has been making its money somewhat like a hedge fund: by buying and selling securities in the secondary market for profit. Why this activity should be government subsidized, I don't know.
Jill Keto | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business
Derivatives are a problem of breathtaking scale that cannot be cleaned up with a quick government fix.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business
Progressives are keenly aware of all the political contributions the financial industry makes. But when you are as big as these behemoths, your power stretches far beyond campaign contributions.
Dan Dorfman | Posted 07.04.2009 | 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.
Ryan Mack | Posted 06.21.2009 | Business
Employees are now burdened with the responsibility of planning for their own retirement since defined contribution plans became the norm.
CNN | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business
According to the latest disclosure from the White House, President Obama is a fan of index-fund investing. See the stocks in his main holding. ...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
Are we nearing a stage where the "stuckholders" -- those investors butchered by huge losses over the past couple of years -- are about to become viable stockholders once again?
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — April was Wall Street's best month in nine years _ offering some of the most powerful evidence yet that maybe, just maybe, the econom...
AP | TIM PARADIS and MADLEN READ | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — The Fed confirmed what Wall Street has already concluded: The recession is starting to ease. Federal Reserve policymakers said at th...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business
Call it the case of the disappearing dividends, a $42 billion caper that's robbing many Americans of a fair chunk of their future wealth.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.21.2009 | 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...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street is seeing an economic glass that's half-full _ again. Investors poured money into consumer product and financial compani...
James Altucher | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business