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INVESTING EQUITIES JUL 03, 2014
Barclays looks like the latest bank to back away from commodities trading

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Barclays backing away from commodities. Plus: Goldman hangs tough in the commodity-trading arena, getting esoteric with income investing, riding on an M&amp;A high, and IRS bonuses whether you've paid your taxes or not

INVESTING EQUITIES JUL 01, 2014
The grim reality of inflation without wage growth

On Friday's menu: Inflation without wage growth: Cause for concern? Plus: The Fed has painted itself into a corner, consumer stocks are likely to take a hit, bracing for Treasury yield volatility, silver outshines gold in June, and how to live to be 100.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUL 01, 2014
The Fed views inflation through rose-colored glasses

On Wednesday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: The Fed dons rose-colored glasses. Plus: Junk bond yields get scary low, commodity hedge funds fall out of favor, what you need to know about stock buyback ETFs, and the inequality mob is driving the rich to hoard cash

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 27, 2014
The stock market stays eerily calm despite a world of chaos

Friday's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Calm before the stock market storm? Plus: Hedge fund investors inch toward the exits, the Fed sees low inflation while consumers live with higher prices, and Icahn goes after Family Dollar Stores with a vengeance

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 27, 2014
Wary investors start to heed advice on bull market, put cash to work

Many advisers think mom-and-pop investors should warm to the bull market

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 23, 2014
ARCP shareholders reject Schorsch's executive compensation plan

Shareholders of Nicholas Schorsch's American Realty Capital Properties turned thumbs down on the eye-popping pay plan for Mr. Schorsch and other top execs. <i>(Plus: <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140602/FREE/140609999&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>Schorsch sells a health care REIT</a>)</i>

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 20, 2014
Iraq's instability spreads to the world's weaker currencies

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Currencies feeling pressure from Iraq. Plus: Gold bugs still not convinced of the next big move, select energy stocks correlate with Iraq unrest, Americans are unable to save money in this economy, and the SEC zeros in on liquid alternative funds.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 20, 2014
Four hot markets beating the Dow

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Four hot markets right now; investors turn their focus to Europe; the SEC stops an adviser; a digital currency cautionary tale; dark pool transparency (thanks, Finra); and World Cup fever.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 19, 2014
REIT begins trading on NASDAQ

United Development Funding IV launches tender offer in conjunction with listing.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 19, 2014
After large shareholder criticizes ARCP, Schorsch says REIT will slow down activity

Responding to a letter from an activist investor, Nicholas Schorsch says he will keep building the company but his acquisition pace will slow. <i>(And on Monday, <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140602/FREE/140609990&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>ARCP shareholders rejected Schorsch's executive comp plan</a>)</i>

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 19, 2014
Finra holds off sending nontraded REIT share price rule to SEC

Regulator still reviewing industry comments on rule to give investors better handle on share values.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 19, 2014
You, too, can play hedge fund manager with new credit swap ETFs

Eight new funds offer chance to wager on the riskiest to safest corporate borrowers.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 18, 2014
Next on Janet Yellen's to-do list: Winding down a $4.5T balance sheet

On Friday's menu: What's next on Yellen's to-do list. Plus: Small-cap stock weakness as a leading indicator, an SEC official dishes on PE funds, big banks are loving big mortgages, three finance questions you better be able to answer, and getting by on $6,000 an hour.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 18, 2014
Nontraded REITs want delay in Finra's proposed disclosure rule

Nontraded REIT industry backs Finra's proposed disclosure rule but wants implementation pushed out to late 2015.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 18, 2014
W.P. Carey completes acquisition of affiliated nontraded REIT

Acquisition of Corporate Property Associates 16 Global is industry's latest liquidity event.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 18, 2014
Nontraded REITs set up for strong year but speed bumps loom

With heady momentum after a record year of sales, nontraded REITs are expected to be popular with advisers and investors again in 2014 but new regs and climbing interest rates could dampen enthusiasm.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 16, 2014
Why REITs are looking like the year's hottest market sector

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> looks at what's propelling REITs into their position as the year's hottest market sector, plus emerging market stocks' record month, Japan's inflation woes, and much more.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 15, 2014
Best- and worst-performing alternatives mutual funds

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 15, 2014
The $20 billion MainStay Marketfield fund's chicken or egg problem

Fund performance sagged as assets ballooned and performance sagged &amp;ndash; but the manager says his bad bets were the culprit.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 13, 2014
BlackRock lists Ukraine among the biggest threats facing the markets

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> BlackRock calls Ukraine a market threat. Plus: JPMorgan gets a slap on the wrist from Finra, Yellen ponders fuzzy unemployment data, where the gold rally is headed from here, and the emergence of subprime business loans.