Putting market-cap indexes in perspective.
Stocks will fall 11% starting as soon as this week should some price patterns come true, according to Tom DeMark, the creator of indicators that show turning points in securities.
Government will be a drag on growth as Fed winds down quantitative easing.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Investors' nerves are fraying and that's not a good thing. Plus: Spiking demand for U.S. Treasuries, dodging corporate taxes, the ABCs of liquid alts, risk-adjusted sector performance, and boning up on your Cinco De Mayo history.
With rates trending downward since the 1980s, the potential rising interest rate environment represents a significant shift for financial advisers &mdash; one that many of us have never experienced.
The era of sluggish growth characterized by Pacific Investment Management Co. chief Bill Gross as the “new normal” is ending, according to one of the firm's deputy CIOs. So what's happening?
Appreciating assets will lead to respectable growth rates and a reduction in unemployment, Pimco chief said in monthly outlook.
Deutsche Bank AG's asset management unit has started the first U.S.-based exchange traded fund that allows investors to buy Chinese stocks trading in both the domestic and foreign markets.
Transparency a minor issue, says RevenueShares' Vince Lowry
Exposure to variable-rate preferred stocks offers dividend income stream that moves with rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Can Janet Yellen and her Federal Reserve colleagues avoid roiling the markets? Plus: Visa and MasterCard tighten screws on Russian banks, bond ladders get snubbed by a fan of bond barbells, checking the math on alternative-investment performance, and the momentum-stock nosedive is real.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Investors waking up to Putin's Russia risks. Plus: Russia's debt downgraded as Kerry issues another warning; U.S. manufacturing comes back (but housing has not); how about this call: gold to hit $5,000 an ounce; the SEC starts to dissect liquid alt funds; and how sanctions are supposed to work.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Obama tees up more sanctions. Plus: Financial pros warn against ignoring Ukraine's significance, the housing market is being hurt by basement dwellers, epic Medicare fraud, safe investment bets surprise in 2014, and $1 million saved for retirement is now considered a good start.
Navigating an investment portfolio around Russia's increasingly aggressive move into Ukraine will not be easy, but there's no excuse for ignoring the potential risks &mdash; and maybe a opportunities &mdash; linked to the turmoil.
Leader Total Return Fund manager goes off the beaten path to make nimble bets on market and rate patterns.
Take Five with BlackRock's James Keenan, who says risks to the asset class include central bank policy.
They're even interested in international stocks, survey finds.
Gross' firm and Western Asset pulled as subadvisers from Mercer fund with $1.1 billion.
“The best hedge of a stock portfolio is something that by design moves in the opposite direction of the stock market,” says Sungarden's Isbitts
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Sugar-coating data to downplay retirement-income challenges. Plus: Simplified Fed-speak, ETFs continue to threaten active management, leveraged-loan fund investors hit the bricks, and there are still undervalued stocks worth considering.
