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Most international investors also want to invest in strong economies. After all, why should investors chase weak economies where their efforts may be treated poorly?
As we have looked through research from the firms that we cover on Wall Street, we find that almost everybody expects a pullback. None that we have seen could be as large as the one predicted by...
Jon OggBob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager of Nuveen Asset Management, is out with his ten predictions for 2014. His predictions are followed by many, and he scored a 7.5...
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsOne of the reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that those that are added are immediately bought by portfolio managers who...
ThinkstockExchange traded funds (ETFs) almost undoubtedly have unseated mutual funds in their importance in the daily swings in the stock and bond markets. Mutual funds are still important to the...
This year already has been a great one for stocks. The S&P 500 Index is up almost 16% after Wednesday’s gains to 1,654 as of mid-day, and the bull market may get another boost if Morgan...
thinkstockInvestors almost always worry about a stock market crash, but when headwinds start to look stronger than the positive forces, they really start to worry that the rug can get yanked right...
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhat is a stock market crash? The short answer is that it depends on your risk profile. The financial media covers a one-day drop of 4% as though it were a crash....
ThinkstockThe hedge fund industry sure seems and looks different now when compared to a decade or two ago. We recently wrote about how the 2% and 20% pricing strategy long imposed on hedge fund...
ThinkstockHighlighted in a Fortune magazine article in 1966, an obscure investment vehicle called the hedge fund was outperforming every existing mutual fund by double-digit figures. By 1968, there...
David Tepper’s Appaloosa hedge fund is one of the most respected and closely watched funds on Wall Street. Tepper makes frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and often his comments alone...
The bull market is alive and well, and the S&P 500 recently broke 1,700 for the first time ever. So, what happens now that stocks have rallied and rallied as fears of an end of the Federal...
ThinkstockOne of the big reasons that investors look for stocks that may be added to the S&P 500 is that the stocks that make the cut immediately become targeted by portfolio managers that run...
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, July 18, 2013. They include Citrix Systems, eBay, Intel, SanDisk and Johnson &...
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Wednesday, July 17, 2013. They include Adobe Systems, Ciena, McDonald's and Wells Fargo.