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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
Russell 2000 index trying to join record-high party

Small-cap laggards not a big concern as the sector takes a breather.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 27, 2014
World stock markets get nervous as Iraq melts down

Plus: Deutsche Bank shows its hand with World Cup bets, Wall Street fines are a cash cow for the Treasury Dept., navigating Social Security before you retire, and eating at home gets pricey in a hurry.

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 EQUITIES JUN 26, 2014
Going global pays dividends

About 75% of the world's dividends come from outside the U.S. but the search for dividend yield by advisers and investors is largely limited to U.S. companies. That needs to change.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 26, 2014
New inflation data could drive the Fed into hawkish mode

On the <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Inflation data could turn doves into hawks. Plus: Oil could get a lot pricier in a hurry, insider trading runs rampant and SIFMA cuts its economic outlook.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 26, 2014
Let's keep perspective on high-frequency trading

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 24, 2014
Refuting the bears

Bears are pointing to overly bullish sentiment readings and anemic volume as reasons to be wary of the end of the bull market. But there's more to the story.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 24, 2014
Will tumult in Iraq unnerve clients?

Market has already priced in geopolitical turmoil in Middle East.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 23, 2014
Fidelity and Credit Suisse team up for easier access to IPOs

Poll shows strong interest in IPOs among high-net-worth investors.

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
Lawmaker says high-frequency trading creates conflicts of interest

Senate hearing focuses on rebates paid to brokers for placing trades with wholesalers and for using certain exchanges.

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 EQUITIES JUN 19, 2014
This is the way long-term bull markets survive and thrive

Early equals wrong and it isn't until the masses buy every dip that bull markets begin to top out.

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 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 EQUITIES JUN 17, 2014
Answering the questions high-frequency trading raises

Money manager Brian Schreiner digs into the questions raised by the firestorm over Michael Lewis' book &quot;Flash Boys&quot; and claims that the stock market is rigged and comes up with some answers. Some questions can't yet be answered, though.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 17, 2014
Slow and steady for economy, stocks and tapering: Nuveen's Doll

Bob Doll, Nuveen's chief equity strategist doesn't see big head winds for stocks or the economy this year, forecasting mid- to high-single-digit equity gains this year. What about tapering?

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 16, 2014
Pimco likely to pick Dan Ivascyn to succeed Gross

Deputy chief investment officer has inside track to succeed 'Bond King' as CIO

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.