<i>Friday's menu:</i> Investors waking up to Putin's Russia risks. Plus: Russia's debt downgraded as Kerry issues another warning; U.S. manufacturing comes back (but housing has not); how about this call: gold to hit $5,000 an ounce; the SEC starts to dissect liquid alt funds; and how sanctions are supposed to work.
Leader Total Return Fund manager goes off the beaten path to make nimble bets on market and rate patterns.
Take Five with BlackRock's James Keenan, who says risks to the asset class include central bank policy.
They're even interested in international stocks, survey finds.
“The best hedge of a stock portfolio is something that by design moves in the opposite direction of the stock market,” says Sungarden's Isbitts
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Sugar-coating data to downplay retirement-income challenges. Plus: Simplified Fed-speak, ETFs continue to threaten active management, leveraged-loan fund investors hit the bricks, and there are still undervalued stocks worth considering.
Fed Chairman Yellen says not to put too much stock in heightened 'appropriate target' funds rate.
The surprising resilience of Treasuries has investors recalibrating forecasts for higher borrowing costs as lackluster job growth and emerging-market turmoil push yields toward 2014 lows.
Weitz Investments calls the stock market tough for active managers and with equities trading at 85% to 90% of fair value, the money manager has socked cash away to take advantage of volatility.
The University of Connecticut plans to sell $220 million of municipal bonds starting tomorrow as its teams are set to play this weekend in the Final Four of the men's and women's national college basketball tournaments.
Growth-oriented stock pickers beat their benchmarks, but how long will it last?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Time to sell stocks? Plus: All you need to know about the Fed's policy decision today, lessons from a Texas-size bankruptcy, lingering effects of the polar vortex, a social media darling trips up, and the latest on Rep. Dave Camp's tax reform plan.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Rate clarity from Janet Yellen and the Fed this week could chill volatility. Plus: Someone doesn't like small caps, <i>IN</i>'s big independent broker-dealer report is out, determining what airline to fly, a new cybersecurity warning and two popes are now saints.
With the bull market intact after “good flat” first quarter, changes are afoot, leading strategists to suggest looking broadly for investment opportunity in the second quarter. Jeff Benjamin explains.
Stocks, bonds and commodities rose together in February for the first time in seven months, reversing January's losses. The S&P 500 is at a new all-time high. So who's panicking now?
Fed chief comments send yields surging; Bond King says 5-30 year maturities at risk.
Expectations that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates leads to biggest selloff since '10
The world's biggest bond dealers aren't buying a strong start for Treasuries as they grow bullish on the U.S. economy even as investors such as Bill Gross of Pimco and Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital question the strength of the recovery,
Betting against Treasuries risky, caution needed with funds buying junk bonds, shorting government debt,
