<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Euro stocks rally but for how long?. Plus: The China risk, big money managers are flush once again, the future of airplane seating, and 21 inspirational yearbook quotes.
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Ukraine heats up and fund winners and losers come into focus. Plus: Fed-speak clarity: an oxymoron? Bank loan funds fall victim to Fed policy, Obamacare drags us back to the 1950s and banks square off with Big Labor in Vegas.
How much can the year's surprising mutual fund flows tell us? Leuthold Weeden Capital Management's Kristen Hendrickson takes a deep dive and provides insight into how the rest of the year could play out.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: Finra targets trading trickery. Plus: Credit Suisse pleads guilty to tax evasion, dealing with the Fed's giant balance sheet, Treasuries vs. gold and 10 great baseball movies to see this summer.
Investors are plowing money &mdash; $5 billion in April alone &mdash; into equity ETFs, betting that an expanding economy will overwhelm concerns such as slowing earnings growth, rising valuations and the end of Fed stimulus.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> The bond market's oddly logical rally. Plus: Retail and professional investors get cautious, gold tops $1,300 an ounce, the income opportunities in deep-water drilling, and clarifying Thomas Piketty's attack on capitalism
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Some big names, including Nouriel Roubini, are warning about a bubble in corporate bonds. Plus: Jeffrey Gundlach knows where the bond market bear is, insider trading on fantasy, should you drop health care coverage, cities not enjoying a housing recovery and about that West Antarctic glacier.
Firm runs crash-test analysis to identify biggest losers &mdash; and winners &mdash; if the tension escalates. You might be surprised at the results.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Why interest rates won't rise soon, from N.Y. Fed chief William Dudley. Plus: Why interest rates <i>will</i> rise soon, from another Fed governor, more reasons to expect a stock market correction, the end of the Tea 'party,' and what sets Warren Buffett's favorite bank apart.
They're less willing to take risks with money than men, but they'll ensure the mortgage is paid off.
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu: China moves hit T-bonds. Plus: Navigating a bond portfolio through rising rates, El-Erian says the market outlook is rocky, the price of meat is high and going higher, and math doesn't have to be so darn complicated.
Optimism about continued support from the Federal Reserve was not enough to prevent the worst recent decline for the Nasdaq Composite Index. Plus, find out which companies took a beating on first quarter earnings.
Stock-trading site Kapitall woos investment-shy millennials with its online 'playground.'
Startup brokerage planning new online platform for advisers.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What's up with junk bond investors? Plus: Four sorry years of Dodd-Frank, ignore the Fed's warnings at your own risk, mathematical excuses for sluggish wage growth, and it's not too late for a mid-year portfolio checkup.
Plus: Alibaba IPO is on track to break records, what U.S. investors will really get when buying Alibaba shares, Goldman offers a leg up to Steven Cohen, and MSNBC apologizes for poor taste on Cinco de Mayo
Emerging sector has reached a tipping point, presenting many long-term investment opportunities.
On today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> menu, the latest step the Obama administration is taking to push back against Russia, plus just how much support the Clintons have among Dow Jones Index companies, and much more.
Putting market-cap indexes in perspective.
Stocks will fall 11% starting as soon as this week should some price patterns come true, according to Tom DeMark, the creator of indicators that show turning points in securities.
