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The IPO market continues to sizzle and the latest is a doozy
Breakfast with Benjamin: The latest IPO candidate has filed, and its numbers are 'insane.' Plus: Currency traders on their way to extinction, hedge fund managers boost gold bets (mostly), small cap strategies rule, two powerful women on Wall St. could be out of work and an Olympic update.
Ally Financial IPO is banking on short investor memories
Breakfast with Benjamin: One IPO hoping investors have a short memory. Plus: Bracing for weaker earnings, here comes Fed meeting minutes, bond market opportunities, shoving investors toward behavioral finance and refusing LinkedIn requests.
Viewing Alcoa’s earnings season kick-off in a high-tech light
Breakfast with Benjamin: An old manufacturer goes high tech and why its earnings still matter. Plus: Emerging-markets stocks bounce as the dollar slides; the stock market's frayed nerves; and a little corporate board turnover can go a long way toward stock performance.
Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak
Breakfast with Benjamin: Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak. Plus: Still waiting for Treasury yields to spike, new love for intermediate-term bond funds, hot stocks ahead of earnings reports, and even gold bugs are starting to worry about the precious metal's decline
Investors adopt a defensive stance to wrap up 1Q
Breakfast with Benjamin: At some point in the first quarter, investors got defensive. So what does that mean now? Plus: It's all about Friday's jobs report, Michael Lewis calls out the stock market for being rigged, Obamacare investing risks and opportunities, and will Janet Yellen spook the market again?
When BRICs go bust, investors head toward frontier markets
Friday's menu: Where investors go when BRICs crack. Plus: How advisers can — and should — deal with male and female clients, mounting sanctions drive Russia toward China for economic help, investor class-action lawsuits spike, and saving money on travel.
The last five years: Quite a ride, but did you stay in it?
Markets move quickly and can take us on a roller-coaster ride; the key is to keep emotions in check.
Markets wake up to China’s economic slowdown
Breakfast with Benjamin: Markets wake up to China's economic slowdown. Plus: Soros deters British EU exit, an all-ETF retirement portfolio, rethinking cash-rich tech companies, undervalued Wall Street banks, and test your investor profile (for fun).
Solid earnings growth — and thus stock price gains — expected in key sectors
Industrials to consumer spending to drug research look good. Here's why.
What’s the best asset allocation now?
After a rip-roaring 2013 and an early chill in 2014, stocks are either on the cusp of a correction or poised for further gains. Bonds, meanwhile, still face rising rates at some point, with tapering in full swing. What's an investor to do?
Drama, poor performance haunt Pimco
Consultants, insitutional clients watch closely as firm deals with alleged Gross-El-Erian feud.
Emerging markets stocks: Volatility, yes, but dividends too
New American Funds offering seeks to take advantage of strong payouts but some doubt strategy.
When the White House starts giving investment advice, we’re all in trouble
Investors wisely ignore calls to short or sell Russian stocks
Until the economy springs forward, just keep blaming the weather
Breakfast with Benjamin: It's the weather. Repeat. Plus: Congress sticks with its attack on mortgage interest deductions, high-speed traders and you, investing in stock splits, and here's how much you should have saved for retirement.
Russia and the energy-stock short-sale question
Breakfast with Benjamin: Is it time to short energy stocks, given the Russian rabble rousing? Plus: Gold's reaction to Fed chief Yellen, Candy Crush IPO's dizzy math, how to retire with $1M, and at tax time, age counts (the younger, the better).
When women-run retirement funds beat the boys
Breakfast with Benjamin: Women-run retirement funds have consistently higher returns than those run by men. Here's why. Plus: Four data points to watch this morning, dealing with a bankrupt hedge fund, how the FBI is watching high-frequency trading, and April Fool's Day around the web.
Every day is Veterans Day at Drexel Hamilton
Longtime Wall Streeter James Cahill's firm trains ex-military members for finance jobs.
What are the economic consequences of the next Cold War?
Breakfast with Benjamin: How the Russia situation could hit the economy. Plus: JPMorgan abandons its commodities business, Morningstar's deep dive into the Pimco mess, expect the expected from Yellen today, retirees give Boomers the playbook, and, big surprise, short-sellers badmouth stocks.
Obama administration’s call for boycotting Russian stocks falls flat
Breakfast with Benjamin: Investors not taking President Obama's advice. Plus: Fed warns there's always time to worry about bubbles, Morgan Stanley doubles down on biotech, the cloud computing frenzy marches on, activist investor challenges Coke management perks, and index investing to cut the tax bill
Gold rally draws critics along with fans, but it’s still a rally
Friday's menu: Both sides of the gold rally. Plus: Who won at last night's Lipper Awards; Yellen gets credit for driving the dollar higher; nearly all big banks pass stress tests; Russian sanctions taking hold; and when to use home equity to buy stocks.