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- Best Buys on Bonds
- Despite the nascent stock-market rally, the once-stodgy bond market remains the hot new thing for wary investors. Corporate and municipal bonds offer some temptingly high yields. Treasuries promise a safe haven. But the market is riddled with risks. Learn how to avoid them... Although stocks have bounced back in recent...
- Articles 2009-03-17
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- AARP Mutual Funds: Is AARP Looking Out for You?
- The giant nonprofit offers multiple financial products, but are they any good? First under the microscope: AARP's $202 million mutual-fund family. The AARP Funds Switcheroo AARP has sold mutual funds for 25 years, but the group switched course dramatically in...
- Articles 2009-07-09
- Second Quarter 2009 Market Review
- John D. Frankola submits:Stock markets produced positive gains in the second quarter of 2009. The S&P 500 Index generated returns of 15.9% for the quarter as investors’ confidence improved with signs that the economy may be turning around. While most economic data continued to show significant weakness, the rate of...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Rehabilitating a Lopsided Portfolio
- When the Radoseviches began phasing into retirement in 2006, their portfolio was worth about $1.5 million. Not anymore. Don, like everyone else, was enthralled by the stock market’s seemingly unstoppable surge in value in the past 20 years. He recalls, with something like nostalgia, that “from 1990 to 2000, everything...
- Articles 2009-09-24
- Tom Atteberry: Investor Who Predicted the Crash Tells Us What's Next
- FPA portfolio manager Tom Atteberry spotted the mortgage-backed-securities time bomb before it blew up. One year after the collapse of Lehman Bros., he tells us what to buy, what to avoid, and why 70 is the new 65. FPA investors, however, did pretty well, all...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- How to Invest in the âNew Normal'
- Some advisers say you'll need to be more nimble with your investments; critics just call that market timing. Here's what we do know about the post-Lehman market. To Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian, co-chief investment officer and CEO respectively of Pacific Investment Management Co., that...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- Peculiarities of the Current Rally: Where Do We Go from Here?
- Raymond Micaletti submits: Following up on Greg Feirman's recent article, "A Junk Stock Rally," here are some peculiarities of the current rally that have stood out to us, along with some questions that these peculiarities raise: As many have mentioned, the rally has indeed been led by Financials and Consumer...
- External links 2009-04-29
- Could Warren Buffett Save Dow Chemical?
- For Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, failure isn't an option. Liveris has a tough juggle ahead of him to complete his company's $15.3 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas. Ever since Liveris beat out rival BASF to win Rohm in a bidding war in July, he has touted Rohm's ability...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Credit Thaw Update: Banks More Confident in Lending to Their Peers
- In a sign of improving confidence about banks and businesses in general, interest rates have been dropping in the credit markets both in the U.S. and Europe. Banks are showing greater confidence in lending to one another for short periods, and investors in both investment grade and high-yield corporate bonds...
- Blog posts 2009-04-29
- E*Trade Asked to Raise New Capital Without Access to TARP
- E*Trade is the latest company to have been dragged into the stress tests run by U.S. federal bank regulators and has been asked to raise new capital as a result. But unlike the "too-big-to-fail" 19 major financial institutions also undergoing stress tests, the online broker -- which doubles as a...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Textron Financial Could Benefit From New TALF Lending
- Textron, the maker of Cessna jets, may be getting fresh liquidity with the new version of the federal Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility, a Federal Reserve lending program. Oddly enough, it can thank the boating industry for that. Textron's financing arm, Textron Financial, provides leases for a...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Outlook for MLPs Ahead of April Earnings
- Avi Morris submits: MLPs are one of the very few winning groups in 2009 for those long in the markets. After beginning the year at 172, the Alerian MLP Index at 177 is still up. While MLPs have gained as the Dow was dropping over 20% YTD, selling sentiment has...
- External links 2009-03-04
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