Income portfolios should have a stable market value. In thirty-five years of investment management, I’ve determined that the single biggest error investors make is their focus on the market value of income securities. Stable income yes; stable market value – not! Roughly 25% of you incorrectly put this one in the “True” column.
By Noel Sheppard
January 17, 2010 – 01:25 ET
Former Barack Obama supporter Jim Cramer on Friday said the stock market would have a huge rally if Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley in Tuesday’s special senatorial election in Massachusetts.
“I think investors who are nervous about the dictatorship of the Pelosi proletariat will [...]
By Jonathan Burton
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Knowing that there can be too much of a good thing, many investors are wary about how stock and bond markets this year will follow their remarkable 2009 surge.
One thing’s for sure: This year won’t be like the last.
“We’re not going up 65% in the first nine [...]
Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010 03:48 PM
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York faces a congressional subpoena into bailout decisions made under the leadership of now-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., said Tuesday he will subpoena the New York Fed for documents related to the bailout of failed insurer American International Group Inc. Towns chairs [...]
It was a fabulous decade for those investors who were able to see over, beyond, and through artificial time constraints to find the long-term opportunities within every beautiful market cycle undulation. There were plenty of gyrations to gyrate to if you only knew how.
By: Dan Weil
The yield premium of Treasury bonds over Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) has reached a 16-month high, signaling inflation ahead.
The yield premium for 10-year Treasuries over 10-year TIPS closed above 2.25 percentage points four times last week, the longest streak since August 2008, Bloomberg reports.
That spread indicates that 10-year Treasury yields, now 3.63 percent, [...]
Sunday, 20 Dec 2009 02:50 PM
Skeptical kids can doubt whether Santa Claus exists. But for stock-market statisticians, there’s not much debate: The year-end lift known as the Santa Claus rally is no myth.
The stock market typically posts modest, but reliable, gains in late December into the beginning of early January.
“It’s pretty much like clockwork,” says [...]
By Thomas Ferraro and Andy Sullivan Thomas Ferraro and Andy Sullivan – Thu Dec 17, 2:08 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan on Thursday endorsed a proposed bipartisan commission to help make the tough calls needed to [...]
The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate.
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 7:12PM GMT 15 Dec 2009
“The Gulf monetary union pact has come into effect,” said Kuwait’s [...]
By Amanda Carpenter on Dec. 9, 2009
Chalk up another 500 jobs to the list of jobs President Obama will need to create or save.
A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits [...]