<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Janet Yellen takes the helm (and the heat). Plus, data breach at Barclays, Pimco's guide to reducing volatility, investing when you're really scared, and investing when you're in love.
After struggling for years in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Improved performance and a rising tide is helping American Funds reverse years of outflows.
Today: What hedge funds fleeing the market means. Plus, buck up, investment banker bonus week is here; building your own mutual fund; clean energy stocks; getting the most out of Siri; and more.
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.
Investors in the company run by the billionaire have to rely on his homey annual shareholder letter and Q&A at the annual meeting for info on its disparate holdings because the company, which is set to post record full-year profit next week, has become more opaque during his five-decade-long acquisition spree. Still, they've done OK.
Pimco's co-CIO says central banks pushing investors to riskier assets but that policy has limits.
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.
Exchange-traded and mutual funds investing in stocks took in about $162 billion this year, the most since 2000, as the S&P 500 surged 29%.
Equities usually react favorably when the central bank tightens, according to new research.
A top investment strategist seeks to answer questions on inflation, deflation, valuation and portfolio building.
The S&P 500 index and Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at record highs this week, capping their biggest gain in two months as a stronger-than-expected economic growth report put investors into a holiday mood.
Stock prices finished 2013 on a high note, with the S&P 500 posting its biggest annual gain since 1997, helped by consumer confidence and a rebound in housing. Concerns over valuations are rising but experts see more upside.
2014 could be a good year for mortgage REITs and here's why. Plus: Which housing markets are vulnerable to rising rates, gold-mining stocks for the truest gold bugs, an ETF end zone dance, social media apps took over in 2013, and more proof of Obamacare bumbling.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway adds a $3.7 billion Exxon Mobil stake, its biggest new holding since IBM in 2011.
ConvergEx Group's chief market strategist takes an investor's look at the famous editorial and updates it to the context of today's equity market.
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.
The stock market's rally has more investors and pundits screaming about too-high valuations but the fact is that corporate earnings have risen along with stock prices. The upshot? This unloved rally has room to go higher.
Rising rates this year have weighed on high-dividend stocks such as telecom, utility and real-estate investment-trust company shares. The specter of higher rates in 2014 doesn't bode well, some strategists say.
Plus: Hedge funds short gold, bonds embrace Fed taper, Obamacare hits the family budget hard, a case for reverse mortgages, and holiday tipping tips
