Barton Biggs, a hedge fund manager who bought stocks when the market bottomed in March 2009, recently boosted bullish bets on equities in his Traxis Global Equity Macro Fund, citing improving U.S. economic data
Traders are placing more bets than any time since 2009 that the CBOE's Volatility Index will fall, a sign they expect concern about Europe's credit crisis to recede and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to rally.
Looking beyond the technology-centric U.S. market is key to building a solidly diversified portfolio of tech stocks, according to Ian Warmerdam, manager of the $300 million Henderson Global Technology Fund.
The nearly two-year trend of companies' hoarding cash due to economic uncertainty plays right into the hand of the $560 million JPMorgan Equity Income Select Fund.
Emerging-market stocks are “cheap” and Pacific Investment Management Co. is buying in China after the nation's shares tumbled this year
More institutions are taking cover as uncertainty surrounding the euro is putting developed-market currency risk at center stage of global investment portfolios, including equities strategies
Investors should buy equities because valuations, income growth and dividends show that the asset class is attractive, said Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC's Neel Kashkari
U.S. companies are earning too much for the bull market to be derailed by speculation that Europe's debt crisis will spread, according to Laszlo Birinyi, who advised clients to buy shares before they bottomed in March 2009
The global economic crisis is leading to a possible “developed economy” recession in Europe and the United States that may be hard to alleviate, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC's Bill Gross
Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Neel Kashkari said investors should buy equities because valuations, income growth and dividends show the asset class is attractive.
June's combination of flows out of active U.S. equity funds and into index funds was the highest since '09
In a sign that the economy may be on the verge of another recession, investors are paying less for equities than they have during every recession since Ronald Reagan was president
Even in the rocky world of technology investing, the debt ceiling debate has been an eye-opening experience.
Pessimism about U.S. stocks among 120 investment newsletter writers increased the most since July 2007, a bullish signal to analysts who track investor sentiment as a contrarian indicator of share performance.
Is it time to move back into equities? Insiders are buying for the first time since March 2009, said Blackstone Group's Byron Wien, who predicted on Jan. 3 that 10-year Treasury yields and economic growth will approach 5% this year--usually a good sign.
Warren E. Buffett's determination that Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A) shares are cheap enough to buy back may mean that the S&P 500 also is a bargain.
U.S. and European stocks rose, erasing all of last week's losses for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, as companies announced $26.9 billion in global deals after equities traded near their cheapest relative to earnings since 2009.
