Markets are expected to experience some immediate, but short-term, volatility if the Federal Reserve decides to raise interest rates in December.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Ground Control to Major Yellen. Commencing countdown, engines on. The Fed's October meeting minutes stress a potential December liftoff for rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> After the big IRS data breach, few people probably trust the agency regarding data security. Nonetheless, it's offered a checklist of ways to avoid becoming a tax-scam victim.
Catalysts that drove the S&P 500's 12% summer tumble, from interest rate dread to a commodities rout and weak earnings, surfaced again. Strategists expect more downside.
Companies paid out a record $1 trillion last year; about 70% came from non-U.S. companies
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Even though it's designed and expected to be apolitical, the Federal Reserve is becoming a popular target of political attacks.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Presidential candidates are not always good at managing their own money, and voters don't care, or need to.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The NBA star is claiming to have lost $1.1M by being invested in a bankrupt cosmetics company.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Susan Elizabeth Walker was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for taking over $1 million from clients' accounts.
Manager is hoping to garner assets in a crowded market through a strategy targeting the stability of investors' retirement income stream.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Emerging-markets fund manager who darted out of Chinese stocks at the best possible time is now moving back in.
Well-known investor Laszlo Birinyi, who has defied market pessimists throughout the 6 1/2-year bull market, says there's more money to be made in the stock market.
Citizenship by investment is a growing method that allows high-net-worth clients to shield their assets from the U.S. government.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The numbers are in, and it turns out the $12.4 trillion worth of quantitative easing has only worsened inequality.
Funding model is based on platforms such as those developed by Kickstarter Inc. and Indiegogo Inc. that allow entrepreneurs, artists and engineers to solicit donations for projects ranging from virtual-reality headsets to music festivals
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The specific things to watch for in today's jobs report that could influence the Fed's decision on interest rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The bond market appears uninterested in the Fed's subtle hints of a looming rate hike next month, or the month after that, or someday, maybe, eventually.
The new model includes private equity, venture capital, activist investing, gold, timber and collectibles
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: The economy has historically done better with a Democrat in the White House. Why that is remains a mystery.
Poor performance could send the income-generating category back to direct investing, where it belongs.
