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INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 28, 2014
Boomers cash in as bull market aids exodus from workforce

Five-year rally restores $14 trillion to U.S. equity values, helping push participation rate of working Americans to 40-year lows.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 28, 2014
Most hated stocks prove to be the best performers, knocking money managers for a loop

The most hated stocks are proving to be the best performers, knocking money managers for a loop, with more than 80% of growth and value funds trailing their benchmarks. Remember the old adage about past performance? It's true.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
The Fed takes a long-term view of its record $4.3 trillion balance sheet

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Janet Yellen's Fed will sit on its record $4.3T balance sheet as the QE experiment continues. Plus: A top economist wants the Fed to raise rates now, stock buybacks push markets to the sky, beating short-sellers at their own game, and how not to get burned by pot stocks.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
Outcomes making fund management a hard-knock life

In this Take Five interview, Columbia Management's global CIO says outcomes are more than a buzzword and investors expect more than performance.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
Amid shifting rate policy, rising geopolitical risk, convertible securities could make sense

Some investors looking to reduce downside risk from exposure to the effects of the changing interest rate outlook on equities, bonds and foreign currencies turn to convertible securities. Can they work for you?

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
When searching for investment advice, consumers are drawn to the alphabet soup of credentials

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Consumers drawn by alphabet soup of adviser credentials. Plus: Job cuts continue at Barclays, pushing for nationwide fracking, a big retirement risk, commodity hedge funds take a beating, and another smidgen of bad news for the IRS.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 27, 2014
The capital gains vacation is coming to an end

For fund investors, the vacation from capital gains taxes may be over after another strong year for stocks. But it's not all bad news, as there are ways for investors to extend their holiday.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 23, 2014
The housing recovery is falling flat

On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the housing recovery might have fizzled out. Plus more on junk bond yields, a big Barclays fine and much more.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
European stocks hit six-year high on fifth day of rally

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 22, 2014
Ukraine's new resistance to Russia draws attention back to the macroeconomic fallout

<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 21, 2014
Mutual fund flows: Expect 2013's reversal of trends to continue

How much can the year's surprising mutual fund flows tell us? Leuthold Weeden Capital Management's Kristen Hendrickson takes a deep dive and provides insight into how the rest of the year could play out.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 19, 2014
Finra goes after algorithmic trading trickery

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Finra targets trading trickery. Plus: Credit Suisse pleads guilty to tax evasion, dealing with the Fed's giant balance sheet, Treasuries vs. gold and 10 great baseball movies to see this summer.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 19, 2014
As economy improves, ETF investors take note

Investors are plowing money &amp;mdash; $5 billion in April alone &amp;mdash; into equity ETFs, betting that an expanding economy will overwhelm concerns such as slowing earnings growth, rising valuations and the end of Fed stimulus.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 15, 2014
2014's oddly logical bond market rally

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The bond market's oddly logical rally. Plus: Retail and professional investors get cautious, gold tops $1,300 an ounce, the income opportunities in deep-water drilling, and clarifying Thomas Piketty's attack on capitalism

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 13, 2014
Corporate bonds might not be a good place right now

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some big names, including Nouriel Roubini, are warning about a bubble in corporate bonds. Plus: Jeffrey Gundlach knows where the bond market bear is, insider trading on fantasy, should you drop health care coverage, cities not enjoying a housing recovery and about that West Antarctic glacier.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 13, 2014
As Ukraine gets hotter, fund winners and losers come into focus

Firm runs crash-test analysis to identify biggest losers &amp;mdash; and winners &amp;mdash; if the tension escalates. You might be surprised at the results.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 12, 2014
Don't worry about rising rates. Or do

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Why interest rates won't rise soon, from N.Y. Fed chief William Dudley. Plus: Why interest rates <i>will</i> rise soon, from another Fed governor, more reasons to expect a stock market correction, the end of the Tea 'party,' and what sets Warren Buffett's favorite bank apart.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 12, 2014
Are women financially conservative or just economically realistic?

They're less willing to take risks with money than men, but they'll ensure the mortgage is paid off.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 11, 2014
Treasury bonds are already reacting to China's proposed market reforms

Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: China moves hit T-bonds. Plus: Navigating a bond portfolio through rising rates, El-Erian says the market outlook is rocky, the price of meat is high and going higher, and math doesn't have to be so darn complicated.

INVESTING EQUITIES MAY 09, 2014
Week in review: Stocks fall amid tech selloff

Optimism about continued support from the Federal Reserve was not enough to prevent the worst recent decline for the Nasdaq Composite Index. Plus, find out which companies took a beating on first quarter earnings.