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Coming off yesterday’s big bounce, futures do not look bright for today
Breakfast with Benjamin: Backing off the big bounce. Plus: Bill Gross confesses, Bank of America pays for cheesy marketing tactics, investing in wind energy and an urgent reminder to change those passwords
Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak
Breakfast with Benjamin: Bank ETFs ride the choppy waves of Yellen-speak. Plus: Still waiting for Treasury yields to spike, new love for intermediate-term bond funds, hot stocks ahead of earnings reports, and even gold bugs are starting to worry about the precious metal's decline
Until the economy springs forward, just keep blaming the weather
Breakfast with Benjamin: It's the weather. Repeat. Plus: Congress sticks with its attack on mortgage interest deductions, high-speed traders and you, investing in stock splits, and here's how much you should have saved for retirement.
JPMorgan’s Madoff missteps
Breakfast with Benjamin: JPMorgan's Madoff missteps, Prudential's bullishness, ETF inflows' lessons, gold bugs' squashed state and Kraft's Velveeta shortage warning. Plus: pot stocks vs. prison stocks.
Investors go berserk over Bitcoin trading platform
Also in today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Getting contrarian in 2014, El-Erian picks apart the Fed's taper plans, Morningstar warns against timing this market, more Obamacare taxes coming, and companies that got social media right
Bitcoin is soaring, but financial advisers are steering clear for now
Despite the Bitcoin hype, many advisers are steering clear of the online currency, which is unregulated by central banks and traded freely on the Internet.
New plan for Barclays advisers offers more even ratio between salary and bonus
A new plan for Barclays advisers offers a more even ratio between salaries and bonuses. The payout grid remains in place, but it's not the same. Plus: How adviser salaries stack up vs. other jobs
Rubber meets the road on Fed tapering
Breakfast with Benjamin: Did the Fed make the right move with tapering? We'll know this week. Plus: Hot stocks for cold weather, missing out on the market, consumer sentiment looks bright, office vacancy rates still hurting, and the minimum wage debate.
Gold hits the skids and miners dig deep
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin shines a light on the slide in gold and its impact on miners, Volcker rule tweaks, Nasdaq settling its Facebook IPO glitch, the expected drop in oil prices, and quotes to ponder
Janet Yellen takes the helm (and the heat) at the Fed
Breakfast with Benjamin: Janet Yellen takes the helm (and the heat). Plus, data breach at Barclays, Pimco's guide to reducing volatility, investing when you're really scared, and investing when you're in love.
60/40 is fine for many advisers
Investors have poured $156.6 billion into alternative investments, including nontraditional bonds, since 2010, according to data from Morningstar Inc. Nearly half of that amount — $74.6 billion — has come in 2013, giving the alternative market total net assets of $227.3 billion. Still, some believe that overdiversifying is unlikely to add value for clients and maintain that sticking to stocks and bonds is enough.
Take 5: For bond fund investors, it may be time to bail
"Get out while the getting is still good," says Asset Dedication's Brent Burns.
Big PE firms facing $1B settlement in collusion case
Plus: Asian markets are charging, hitting a year-end financial high note, how to use bond ETFs, Amex gets stung, and apps for getting fit. Check out Breakfast with Benjamin.
Fed set to knock another $10B off its quantitative easing program
Breakfast with Benjamin: At Bernanke's final meeting, Fed poised to cut another $10B from its bond-buying program. Plus: CEOs struggle to manage expectations, income tax pain hits home, a tale of two homebuilder ETFs, and young folks aren't biting on the Obamacare sales pitch.
Huber succeeds by looking at the little picture
High-flying fund applies a blend of fundamental and behavioral finance analysis to capitalize on market patterns.
Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise
Breakfast (with Benjamin) is served: Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise; Bernanke's last stand; nontransparent active ETFs; Obamacare's drag on health care; useless jobless claims data; and global New Year's traditions.
Fed tapering could catch junk bond investors off guard
Plus: Looking for weakness in the Volcker rule, the case for stocks in 2014, the upside of market bubbles, and what the heck Elizabeth Warren is up to now?
Iran nuke accord is already moving markets
Plus: Fed taper could hit savers hard, new scrutiny on company stock in K plans, the stocks hedge funds love and Consumer Report's annual "naughty and nice" list. All in today's Breakfast with Benjamin.
Money management tips from central bankers
With huge balance sheets to manage, central banks diversify away from bonds, buy gold. What can advisers learn from the Ben Bernankes of the world?
Bernanke looks past end of QE and sees low rates for a long time
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Bernanke sees low rates for a long, long time; holiday retailers on the ropes; SAC Capital jury selection; investigating fishy employment data; coal becomes the next tobacco-style villain
