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RIAs and small B-Ds have advantages over bigger firms
At Pershing's Insite 2014, BNY exec Brian Shea says bigger Wall Street players continue to face economic and regulatory challenges, opening the door for smaller firms.
Markets brace for the Fed’s big talk about normalization
Plus: Individual investors zig as professionals zag, hedging the U.S. market by going global, Citigroup in the spotlight, and futbol mania
Citigroup’s Mexican unit under FBI scrutiny for alleged fraud
Breakfast with Benjamin: Citi under the FBI microscope. Plus: Using P/E ratios to dispel bubble theories, re-calculating the size of the nation's oil reserves, big banks and big overdraft fees, GM and political grandstanding, and it's always a good time to teach kids about money.
Advisers still suspicious as Dow closes over 17,000
As stocks cross a symbolic threshold, advisers fear clients' rushing in at potential market peak.
Stocks have biggest May in years but where’s the excitement?
Breakfast with Benjamin: Why there's no excitement for this stock rally. Plus: Fee-only RIAs in the catbird seat but they can't relax; the active ETF world heating up; what QE has wrought; on Phil Mickelson and insider trading; and Apple's big day.
Carl Icahn advises caution in the equity markets
Breakfast with Benjamin: Carl Icahn warns that stocks are on risky ground. Plus: Interest rates and volatility are raising red flags, one man's take on the Fed-fueled bubble, the SEC is watching for political-donation conflicts, gold gets no respect, and institutional money is chasing solar energy stocks.
Volatility looks cheap and risky
Breakfast with Benjamin: Barclays: Following in the footsteps of Sallie Krawcheck. Plus: The volatility play: Cheap but risky, bond managers brace for higher rates, dancing around the issue of student loan debt, and a potato salad venture whets the tax man's appetite.
Barry Ritholtz: A correction is coming
Barry Ritholtz sees a market correction as inevitable, but lays out reasons why investors and advisers shouldn't fear its arrival.
It’s time for dividend-paying stocks
Shift in investor focus to valuations and quality is a natural reaction to rising geopolitical risk.
The financial fallout from Germany’s World Cup rout of Brazil
Breakfast with Benjamin: Germany's World Cup rout goes beyond soccer. Plus: The SEC takes another stab at curbing high-speed trading, investment lessons from a crumbling cupcake chain, and dividend stocks are looking better than ever.
Investors bracing for a wild second half of 2014
Breakfast with Benjamin: Buckling up for a rocky second half. Plus: Companies tweak bylaws to tamp down shareholder lawsuits, Morningstar settles software piracy case, JPMorgan embraces smart-beta investing, and buying beer stocks when it's hot outside.
Defensive stocks flash false alarm as tech, consumer shares rally
Improving economic outlooks backs rally in transportation stocks, industrials and small-caps as utilities lag.
Dow average tops 17,000 as payrolls rise
Markets await details of ECB stimulus plans
Best- and worst-performing equity mutual funds
Large-Cap Growth Top 10 Portfolio net assets ($M) 1-year return 3-year return 5-year return Expense ratio* Morgan Stanley…
Advisers worry about high-speed trading backlash from clients after Michael Lewis contention that markets are ‘rigged’
“60 Minutes” segment, new book fuel concern that jittery investors will become even more skeptical.
High-frequency trading runs over a rigged market: Barry Ritholtz
On "60 Minutes," author Michael Lewis made a bland assertion: High-frequency traders, he said, working with U.S. stock exchanges and big banks, have rigged the markets in their own favor. The only surprising thing about Lewis's charge was that anyone could be even remotely surprised by it.
Dollar rides high on hope into earnings season
Breakfast with Benjamin: The dollar is enjoying a big rally right into earnings season. Plus: Goldman moves up its rate hike forecast, putting GDP in perspective, El-Erian reads Yellen's mind, and proven old-school investing techniques.
Most investors missed the Dow’s early fireworks
Today's Breakfast with Braswell covers investors missing out on the Dow's latest rally, another gender bias suit hitting Wall Street, and much more.
Bob Doll’s midyear assessment of investments, the market and the economy
Heading into the second half of the year, Nuveen's chief equity strategist reviews his 2014 expectations for the market, economy and investment vehicles.
Losers of ’14 come roaring back
The best stocks this month, like Netflix, Tesla and TripAdvisor, which are all up more than 16% in the past four weeks, were the market's biggest losers just a few months ago. What gives?
