Investors shifted record amounts out of U.S. stock funds and into bonds in seven-day period ended Feb. 5, while withdrawing money from emerging-market equities for a 15th straight week.
After a rocky first month of the year and a downright awful start to February, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the stock market is correcting or beginning a longer-term slide. Advisors Asset Management's Scott Colyer takes a look at the bearish case and the bullish case.
Pimco's Bill Gross is recommending investors focus on shorter-duration debt. Why? More important than the upcoming jobs report, the slow pace of inflation indicates the Fed will keep its benchmark interest rate at or close to zero.
Friday's menu: All eyes on the jobs report as investors pull cash from stocks, what the frigid winter in the U.S. could wreak, what is Apple up to (aside from buying back its stock) and at long last, the Winter Olympics in Sochi begin.
WisdomTree Investments and State Street Global Advisors wasted no time getting ready to launch exchange-traded funds that will track the U.S. Treasury's latest innovation: floating-rate Treasuries.
Citing weak but recovering economy, monetary policy, Nuveen's Doll says, "We have been in the sweet spot for some time, and it is likely to continue."
Today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> If rates rise, gold won't. Plus: Warren Buffett's $1B tease, a new twist on stock valuations, bitcoin marches on, another solar energy push and, what's good about hoping for a flat market.
After $1.2B yanked in June, $2.1B, the most ever, pulled in September.
New tool allows modeling of specific bond-exposure choices as clients ask about rising rates.
Taper is one thing, rising rates another but strategist offers insight into navigating the seas
Pacific Investment Management Co. has joined with London-based exchange-traded products provider Source UK Services to offer the first actively managed ETF focused on covered bonds.
Risks of the strategy can be great the returns even greater.
Despite worries over valuations &mdash; and the potential for a correction &mdash; the longer-term outlook for stocks is solid. As long as the global economic recovery continues to expand.
In seeking to stop Mohamed El-Erian from leaving Pimco, Bill Gross told him 'hell no.' It didn't work and now Pimco must revisit its succession plan as its struggle to move beyond bonds continues.
Weak earnings combine with currency volatility send investors to the exits
Bond mutual funds in the U.S. posted record investor redemptions of $80 billion in 2013 as investors fled fixed income in anticipation that interest rates will rise further.
Bill Gross' love affair with Brazil is ending after 10 years as his bond bets sour from a steep drop in the local currency. The bond king cut Brazil bond holdings in his Total Return Fund to below 4%.
Economist predicts weakness, slow growth will persist in world markets
