Stocks have biggest May in years but where's the excitement?

<i>Breakfast with Benjamin: Why there's no excitement for this stock rally. </i>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.

JUL 11, 2014

By Jeff Benjamin

There's sizzle but no bacon. What gives? Volume, VIX and yields are stock market's bogeymen
Many fee-only RIAs are sitting pretty after strong growth in 2013, when rising markets perked performance across the board. But don't get too comfortable. Calm before the RIA storm
Things are heating up in the active exchange-traded fund world. State Street to open active ETF run by Jeffrey Gundlach
File this one under unintended consequences. This time, of the Fed's quantitative easing. Unstoppable $100 trillion bond market renders models useless
A good lie activist investors? Or a bad tee shot from authorities? U.S. would face hurdles bringing case against Icahn, Mickelson: lawyers
Apple's big day. The whole world is watching. What we want Apple to unveil at WWDC

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Stocks have biggest May in years but where's the excitement?

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