From his growing list of acquisitions, Warren E. Buffett seems to be investing like the world's richest 10-year-old boy, if that boy lived in 1955 Ame...
Michael Pento | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business
Yesterday's earnings report from government sponsored Fannie Mae should cause investors to question whether the very entity charged with saving the real estate market will actually need to be rescued itself.
Dan Solin | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
I challenge two sacred beliefs: Actively managed funds will outperform index funds in a bear market and your portfolio should become more conservative as you age.
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street rallied Thursday after the government's jobless claims data and Ford Motor Co.'s first-quarter results helped reinject so...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Delta and Northwest Airlines, hoping to merge and become the nation's largest airline, posted big losses on Wednesday, the New York Times reported: D...
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The hormone that drives male aggression and sexual interest also seems able to boost short term success at finance. But what seems ...
CNN/Money | Nicholas Varchaver | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business
Some 15 times a year, Warren Buffett invites a group of business students for an intensive day of learning. Fortune was there for a recent visit. His...
Dan Solin | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
Instead of engaging in the fruitless search for high returns with low risk, investors would be far better served by determining an appropriate asset allocation for their investment objective and tolerance for risk.
Dan Solin | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business
Many investors fall prey to investment pornography. They believe they have found the path to investment success, but upon examination, their beliefs are more likely to lead to financial disaster.
Wall Street Journal | E.S. BROWNING | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business
Over the past 200 years, the stock market's steady upward march occasionally has been disrupted for long stretches, most recently during the Great Dep...
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business
The stocks go up, the stocks go down; bonds go up, and bonds go down. And, since those well-paying writing jobs have gone away, it's not a theoretical situation. We're living off our investments.
236.com | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
Economic meltdown looms, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is doing what he does best: lowering interest rates. At least, that's what financia...
Reuters | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business
The Federal Reserve slashed a key U.S. interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point Tuesday, a substantial cut but smaller than many in finan...
New York Times | Vikas Bajaj | Posted 03.14.2008 | Business
Almost everything seems to be going wrong for the American economy at once. People are buying less, but most things are costing more. Mortgage rates a...
Dan Solin | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business
Fund families make much more money selling actively managed funds than index funds. Both Vanguard and Fidelity offer a broad range of both kinds of funds. Don't let them dissuade you from purchasing index funds.
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO and MADLEN READ | Posted 03.11.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The Fed promised a $200 billion booster shot for ailing markets _ and Wall Street answered with its biggest bounce in more than five ...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Stocks fell sharply Friday after a series of depressing economic and corporate reports as well as high oil prices stoked concerns abo...
Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.27.2008 | Business
A bear market is only possible if there is a consensus that a financial crisis is significantly worse than ever before. And that is why we are currently in a bear market.
AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 02.21.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — The stock market finished with a sharp loss Thursday after bleak readings on the economy heightened investors' fears of recession. Th...
Mort Gerberg | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street retreated Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted a "sluggish" economy until later in the year and...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 02.12.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished mostly higher Tuesday after billionaire investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easi...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.11.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished higher in an uneasy session Monday as retail and homebuilders stocks rose on expectations for more interest rate...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished a dismal week with a mixed performance Friday as investors grappled with fears about insurers of distressed mort...
AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Wall Street finished moderately higher in fitful trading Thursday as investors, still nervous about the economy, decided to buy back ...
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Washington Post | Tomoeh Murakami Tse and Frank Ahrens | Posted 06.01.2008 | Business