<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Big news from two tech giants: strong earnings and a gamechanging sale. Plus two questions: Should you worry about the rout in emerging markets and is your technology working for or against you? Also: A super price for a Super Bowl suite.
Finra turns its ever-watchful eye on frontier funds amid concern that risks are inadequately disclosed to retail investors.
Risks of the strategy can be great the returns even greater.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Apple's earnings will be a focus, but the big question for CEO Cook will be about Carl Icahn. Plus, the emerging markets rout isn't over, why it might be too early to buy the dip, Janet Yellen's Job One and who won big at Sunday night's Grammy Awards.
Weak earnings combine with currency volatility send investors to the exits
Economist predicts weakness, slow growth will persist in world markets
Private capital flows into emerging markets forecast to drop $153B to $1.1T in 2013.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin features BlackRock's settlement with the N.Y. attorney general. Plus: Stock futures looking up, activist hedge funds rock, a look at 4Q earnings, the myth of cybersecurity, retirement mistakes to avoid and the upside of office relationships.
In today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Two big investment houses recommend exiting emerging markets. Also: Credit Suisse offloads risky assets, investment gurus get nervous about 2014, cold weather and a weak economy, and what will cost more this year.
Domestic equities have been the place to be since the financial crisis ended almost five years ago, but with head winds starting to mount in the U.S., investors may be better off on the other side of the Atlantic, says Chris Alderson, president of T. Rowe Price International.
Neuberger is cautious for the near term but says sector could shine down the road
Plus: Asian markets are charging, hitting a year-end financial high note, how to use bond ETFs, Amex gets stung, and apps for getting fit. Check out Breakfast with Benjamin.
Plus: Elizabeth Warren vs. Wall Street, emerging markets see downside of credit boom, and the realities of alternative energy investments. All in Breakfast with Benjamin.
Wall Street's biggest firms are predicting intensifying bond losses in emerging markets, where borrowing costs have already soared to the highest in more than four years versus U.S. corporate debt, as the Federal Reserve considers curtailing record stimulus.
The action in exchange-traded funds investing in India started heating up the day after Labor Day. Since then, the funds have had a 28% run that erased most of the losses they'd suffered this year, while the broader emerging markets are up 10%. ETF investors who want to amp up their exposure to India have options ranging from a broad basket of mostly large-cap stocks to a far-riskier bet focusing on small-caps.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: T. Rowe Price warns of correction, Deutsche Bank bans chat rooms, the first-ever hedge fund ad debuts, big banks sweating over the looming Volcker rule, and EU Commission levies heavy fine for rate rigging.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin includes: Facing the reality of capital gains, Hilton IPO sheds light on hotel stocks, hedge funds go long-only, and the Brits outshop Americans.
Markets are poised for the Santa rally and January effect. Also in today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Cyber Monday becomes Cyber Week, global factory growth, CEO pay and stock performance, and financing 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'
Plus: Emerging markets get dicey, butting heads with Buffett, hedging with ETFs, more Bitcoin buzz
Plus: Fed taper could hit savers hard, new scrutiny on company stock in K plans, the stocks hedge funds love and Consumer Report's annual "naughty and nice" list. All in today's Breakfast with Benjamin.
