Barry Ritholtz sees a market correction as inevitable, but lays out reasons why investors and advisers shouldn't fear its arrival.
Shift in investor focus to valuations and quality is a natural reaction to rising geopolitical risk.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> 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.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> 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.
Improving economic outlooks backs rally in transportation stocks, industrials and small-caps as utilities lag.
Markets await details of ECB stimulus plans
“60 Minutes” segment, new book fuel concern that jittery investors will become even more skeptical.
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.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> 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.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Braswell</i> covers investors missing out on the Dow's latest rally, another gender bias suit hitting Wall Street, and much more.
Heading into the second half of the year, Nuveen's chief equity strategist reviews his 2014 expectations for the market, economy and investment vehicles.
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?
Fund flows contain useful information that advisers can use to gauge the popularity of different trading strategies and identify changes in market focus.
Even with the Dow heading toward another milestone, Astor Investment Management's Rob Stein says the stock market is virtually in set-it and forget-it mode. In this Take Five interview, he explains why.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Stocks around the world are rallying. Plus: New rules and regs are not helping investors, the psychological impact of low volatility, investing in consumer spending, and toast tries to become gourmet dish. Toast.
Stocks have navigated successfully through headline risk, incurring an occasional sharp and abrupt pullback, but always bouncing back.
Pattern now showing that it's time for defensive postures.
Still, investors can bet on managers who can outperform
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Barclays backing away from commodities. Plus: Goldman hangs tough in the commodity-trading arena, getting esoteric with income investing, riding on an M&A high, and IRS bonuses whether you've paid your taxes or not
