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INVESTING EQUITIES FEB 04, 2013
Add another bull to the pile: Goldman's Gary Cohn

Sees shift to equities from bonds as interest rates rise.

INVESTING EQUITIES FEB 04, 2013
Don't write off the 60/40 portfolio just yet: Vanguard

Fund family comes out swinging against balanced portfolio's detractors; bonds still a great hedge

INVESTING FIXED INCOME FEB 02, 2013
Companies at a crossroads

Despite a lack of corporate earnings growth in 2012, a surge of investor confidence boosted US stocks. But experts at Invesco don't believe that type of market rally is sustainable for the longer term. Looking ahead, we expect the market environment to be tougher in 2013 as companies face a crossroads: continue to hoard cash at the long-term expense of future growth, or reinvest in their business at the shorter-term expense of profit margins?

Fed worried about bond bubble
INVESTING FIXED INCOME FEB 01, 2013
Fed worried about bond bubble

From farmland to junk bonds, officials concerned after buying binge.

INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 29, 2013
A long time coming, but investors finally ready to buy stocks

Bloomberg poll finds nearly two-thirds plan to raise stock holdings over next six months.

Will Washington kill the muni tax exemption?
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 28, 2013
Will Washington kill the muni tax exemption?

Politics trumps logic, basic math in Capitol Hill cat fight

INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 27, 2013
Tomczyk warns about bond route

Says investors will take hit when Fed eases up on easing; 'not defying gravity'

INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 27, 2013
Nuveen muni manager Miller is snapping up debt tied to land projects

INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 27, 2013
Pimco is losing its equity honcho

INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 25, 2013
Dow hits 14,000 — so where's the great rotation?

Suddenly, stock fund inflows are up. Bond fund inflows are up as well -- this, despite predictions of an imminent route in the debt markets. <i>IN's</i> Jason Kephart offers the low-down on the upswing.

Bill Gross: Pimco's investment picks and pans
INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 24, 2013
Bill Gross: Pimco's investment picks and pans

The Pimco chief gives Pimco's investment picks and pans if growth falls below 2%

The danger of more uncertainty in the muni market
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 23, 2013
The danger of more uncertainty in the muni market

With three more more months of legislative wrangling ahead, investors run the risk of growing indecisive.

Clear of fiscal cliff, munis facing another volatile patch
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 23, 2013
Clear of fiscal cliff, munis facing another volatile patch

Threat to tax-exempt status 'clear and present danger.'

Don't buy the headlines, California still a financial train wreck
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 20, 2013
Don't buy the headlines, California still a financial train wreck

Balanced budget relies on smoke and mirrors; 'wall of debt'

INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 18, 2013
Deal on dividend tax is small victory for investors

Forget California: Meet the new poster-child for fiscal irresponsibility
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 17, 2013
Forget California: Meet the new poster-child for fiscal irresponsibility

Meet America's new poster-child for fiscal irresponsibility

Bonds have Vanguard CEO thinking of 1999
INVESTING EQUITIES JAN 17, 2013
Bonds have Vanguard CEO thinking of 1999

Fixed income looks like stocks just before lost decade, McNabb says.

Munis on a tear ever since Meredith Whitney's forecast
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 17, 2013
Munis on a tear ever since Meredith Whitney's forecast

Best-performing asset class for second straight-year; 'semi-safe status'

The Empire State strikes back as Gross doubles down on NY munis
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 17, 2013
The Empire State strikes back as Gross doubles down on NY munis

A high-quality credit, New York is issuing muni debt like crazy. And Bill Gross seems more than happy to take advantage of the output.

Big state faces 'clear and present danger' of credit downgrade
INVESTING FIXED INCOME JAN 17, 2013
Big state faces 'clear and present danger' of credit downgrade

The governor of Illinois says pension costs have pushed the state to the brink of its own fiscal cliff.