While there is no inflation in energy prices just yet, consumers could cope with higher energy prices as long as they occur over time and don't hit in the form of a shock. But the tipping point is not too far away.
<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.
In some cases, hedge funds are no investment panacea.
Survey shows many retirees wish they had waited to begin taking benefits.
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.
In today's <i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>, Finra and the SEC's mixed messaging over how much badly-behaved brokers need to disclose stirs up new discussion, plus more on Millennials, Obamacare and the Ukrainian conflict.
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
<i>Friday's menu:</i> Jobs report looks past winter blues; investing in weed for a pot of gold; GM execs get PR all wrong; five funds set to bounce: jumping on the HFT bandwagon, and when the rich don't feel rich
With different rates in different states, these under-the-radar taxes require close scrutiny of annuities contracts to avoid hidden surprises.
Bond king bets on five-year Treasuries that other money managers say will suffer when Fed raises rates.
Outflows from Pimco's Total Return fund, run by Bill Gross, have made headlines but Morningstar analysts call the "shrinking asset base" of two other funds "more troubling." <i>Plus: See who Jeff Gundlach's DoubleLine Capital <a href="http://http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140421/FREE/140429992" target="_blank">grabbed from Pimco</a>.</i>
Wasatch Funds' Sam Stewart invokes legendary football coach Woody Hayes in reviewing the first quarter and says that today, sticking to the basics in a slow-growth economy with unprecedented monetary stimulus is the way to go.
