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What’s Apple got up its sleeve?
Breakfast with Benjamin: Apple's latest acquisition and what else it has up its sleeve. Plus: Microsoft's latest move; Netflix subscribers using Comcast can breathe easier; small investors get back into the trading game and training advisers to work with women.
Emerging-markets selloff sparks global concerns
Breakfast with Benjamin: Emerging market selloff raises contagion fears. Plus: Short-selling starts to make sense, Bill Gross plans to work till he's 109, Obamacare triggers downgrade of health insurers, economists bicker over minimum wage laws, and tricks of debt-free Americans.
Buffett’s hedge fund strategy leaves much to be desired
Active strategies, diversification work and are necessary
Breakfast with Benjamin: Obama’s budget blueprint
Today: Who will be happy with Obama's budget blueprint? Plus, a contrarian idea for stocks, tapering already, gold, GMATs and g-forces.
Gold rides high on the taper effect
Friday's menu: Gold rides high on the taper effect, playing smart defense with a wide-moat ETF, blaming cold weather in February, stirring the income inequality pot, why you should complete your LinkedIn profile, and the SEC shows some love.
Pros panic while retail investors stay cool
As strategists warned of calamity, investors dropped $3B a week into emerging-market funds.
Bill Gross compares Chinese economy to ‘mystery meat’
Breakfast with Benjamin:The Bond King: China's a big risk. Plus: JPMorgan goes on a settlement binge, finance industry tells investors to stay calm, Obama administration catches a CBO boomerang, and some healthy balance sheets for the New Year.
BlackRock’s Fink calls market drop ‘old-fashioned correction’
CEO says long-term investors staying the course, blames hedge funds for volatility.
Fed tapers another $10B a month; stocks extend losses
Slight economic improvement keeps central bankers on track as they commit to keeping target interest rate near zero.
Investors shift record amounts from U.S. stocks to bonds
Investors shifted record amounts out of U.S. stock funds and into bonds in seven-day period ended Feb. 5, while withdrawing money from emerging-market equities for a 15th straight week.
Cry me a river: Tears of fear or tears of joy
After a rocky first month of the year and a downright awful start to February, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the stock market is correcting or beginning a longer-term slide. Advisors Asset Management's Scott Colyer takes a look at the bearish case and the bullish case.
Time for a gut check on risk tolerance
C'mon, financial planners and investment advisers, duty calls. With the stock and bond markets both showing signs of…
All eyes on the jobs report as investors pull money from stocks
Friday's menu: All eyes on the jobs report as investors pull cash from stocks, what the frigid winter in the U.S. could wreak, what is Apple up to (aside from buying back its stock) and at long last, the Winter Olympics in Sochi begin.
Warren Buffett’s hedge fund bet might be sending the wrong message
Breakfast with Benjamin: What's with the Oracle of Omaha's hedge fund bet? Plus: Friday's freaky jobs report preview, public pensions gained 16% last year, Twitter earnings raise concerns, and investing in income inequality.
To follow the herd … or not
Dr. Daniel Crosby explores the problems of surrounding yourself with “yes people.” Sometimes it's natural and healthy, but it can lead to dangerous 'groupthink.'
Sustained drop in stocks not likely despite uncertainties, global worries
Citing weak but recovering economy, monetary policy, Nuveen's Doll says, "We have been in the sweet spot for some time, and it is likely to continue."
Breakfast with Benjamin: Fed shrugs off market selloff and sticks to taper plans
Breakfast with Benjamin: Janet Yellen's Fed is sticking with tapering but more econ data today could change the conversation. Plus: Stocks are down big so is it the overdue correction? And Japanese stocks fell 4% overnight, the case for index funds, BofA rate traders see smaller bonuses, and tracking short sales.
Stocks extend January slide, hit by weak earnings, emerging markets turmoil
Worst January since 2010 as S&P 500 loses 3.6%, first monthly decline since August 2013.
More bad news for gold
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: If rates rise, gold won't. Plus: Warren Buffett's $1B tease, a new twist on stock valuations, bitcoin marches on, another solar energy push and, what's good about hoping for a flat market.
Bullish Super Bowl theory hits snag as S&P 500 extends drop
Super Bowl predictor may be irrational but has better track record than many stock pickers.