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Brian Holmes,: According to today's Washington Post, the dollar has fallen by 14 percent with respect to the yen, and 16 percent with respect to the euro, from the highs of earlier this year. These falls directly reflect capital flight from the US, principally the US stock markets With the tax...; Tags: Investment, stock market, deflation, stock, bond, tax; White papers
Discover How to Invest! Learn to Buy and Sell Stocks: This article is about the investment in stock market. Stock markets are based on profits, fear and greed, on supply and demand and on many "hidden secrets!” It gives the detail information about the What's Going on With the Markets? Anyone can invest and make money in rising...; Tags: Investment, stock market, stock; White papers
Do Fundamentalsùor EmotionsùDrive the stock market?: The paper outlines that dramatic stock market gyrations during and since the 1990s have encouraged advocates of behavioral-finance theories, which hold that market values can systematically deviate from economic fundamentals. Evidence shows, however, that such events are limited and that market values eventually return to fundamental levels. Managers and investors...; Tags: Investment, McKinsey & Co., swing, stock market, stock, theory; White papers
Do Fundamentals - Or Emotions - Drive the stock market?: Dramatic stock market gyrations during and since the 1990s have encouraged advocates of behavioral-finance theories, which hold that market values can systematically deviate from economic fundamentals. Evidence shows, however, that such events are limited and that market values eventually return to fundamental levels. Managers and investors need to understand the...; Tags: Investment, McKinsey & Co., swing, stock market, stock, theory; White papers
Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future: The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. The following article shows how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their risk levels,...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, About Inc., investor, valuation, stock, bond, stock market, performance; White papers

Breaking the Bond Barrier: How Fixed-Income Investors Can Build a Better Future: The stock market has been the focus of almost all the hype the past few years. But in the 1990's, soaring valuations, made stocks just too rich for the appetites of many investors. In the following article, we show how conservative investors can increase their expected performance, along with their...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Merriman Capital Management Inc., investor, valuation, stock, bond, stock market, performance; White papers
Futures Contract: This tutorial gives relevant information about Derivatives. The name really says it all, futures are contracts on commodities, currencies, and stock market indexes that attempt to predict the value of these securities at some date in the future. The primary purpose of futures markets is to provide an efficient and...; Tags: Investment, Investopedia, stock market, derivatives, trader, stock, security; White papers
Hedge Fund Information: This article explains the origin of hedge funds. The year was 1949, WWII just ended, and the world was in a unified celebration. Alfred Winslow Jones, a sociologist, was working on assignment for Fortune magazine investigating fundamental and technical research on forecasting the stock market. The article reported on a...; Tags: Investment, stock market, hedge fund, stock, forecasting; White papers
A Review of Financial Markets II: After a third consecutive year of declining stock markets, there is one question on everyone’s mind, when will this bear market end? This is the first time the US stock market has declined for three years in a row since 1939-1941. As measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average,...; Tags: Investment, bear market, stock market, stock, DJIA, terrorism, financial; White papers
Fear Recedes as Corporate Profits Reassure Investors: By Doris Frankel CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index or VIX on Wednesday dropped to its lowest levels this year as encouraging earnings from blue-chip stocks helped lift investors' spirits after a string of disappointments last...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Financial services, Chicago Board Options Exchange, Federal Reserve Board, stock market, interest rate, pulse, derivatives, Chicago, investor, stock, S&P 500, online trading, job, volatility, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., performance, wa; News items 2008-04-16
Wikinomics for the stock market: Wikinomics was one of last year's best-regarded business books.Â Motley Fool says it should be a must read for stockpickers, as well. The main point the Fool wants its readers to know: a successful company in the modern era should not be afraid to open up...; Tags: Investment, stock, Michael Fitzgerald, Wikinomics, stock market; Blog posts 2008-02-11
"SOX" Simplified: Payroll And Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Few years back, a stock market disaster cost ordinary investors trillions of dollars at the hands of a small group of deceptive business leaders. The Enron scandal and other similar scandals damaged investors' confidence in the accuracy of corporate financial statements. In response to the public outrage, Senator Paul Sarbanes...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Investment, Financial accounting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, stock market, business ethics, regulation, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial reporting, investor, financial statement, stock, financial, payroll, compliance, small; White papers 2007-08-15
Lawrence Summers: Odds Favor U.S. Recession: For business strategists and business owners trying to handicap the chance of a recession in the U.S., news earlier this week has been encouraging. Triple-digit stock market gains, dropping oil prices, decent Black Friday sales, and and hints of another interest rate cut by the Fed has somewhat lightened the...; Tags: Investment, Sean Silverthorne, Lawrence Summers; Blog posts 2007-11-29
Finding The Next Starbucks by Michael Moe |Book Brief: Author Michael Moe, who successfully predicted the rise of Starbucks, Google, and other superstars, gives a glance into his book, “Finding The Next Starbucks” and explains how to use the Four P’s (people, product, potential, and predictability) to spot the next big stock market winners.; Tags: Investment, Starbucks Corp., stock market, stock; Videos 2007-10-16
Developing a Capital Asset Pricing Model: CAPM describes the relationship between risk and expected return for an individual portfolio or security. Its underlying theory has prompted lively discussion about what “risk” actually means, asserting that only “systematic” (non-diversified) risk brings real reward to investors. Systematic risk is unavoidable, market-oriented risk that cannot be averaged out through...; Tags: Financial accounting, BNET Editorial, beta, volatility, investor, risk, investment, Capital Asset Pricing Model, theory, asset, security, advisor, stock, stock market; Articles 2007-10-12
When Do stock market Booms Occur?: The Macroeconomic And Policy Environments Of 20th Century Booms: This paper studies the macroeconomic conditions and policy environments under which stock market booms occurred among ten developed countries during the 20th Century. We find that booms tended to occur during periods of above-average growth of real output, and below-average and falling inflation. We also find that booms often ended...; Tags: Investment, Currency & Foreign exchange, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, stock market, inflation, stock, environment; White papers 2006-09-01
How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: the Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina: It's a common observation that crises such as wars, recessions, stock market meltdowns, ethics scandals, and natural catastrophes often drive the public policymaking process. A crisis reveals a problem and then a public consensus emerges that policymakers must do something about it. The policy debate then centers on the best...; Tags: Investment, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 commission, ethics, stock market, TV, stock, industry; White papers 2006-08-30
Are REITs a Better Property Investment?: REITs are an established part of the stock market in the US and in a number of other countries. Introducing them here simply represents a catching up process. REITs have been around in the US since the 1960s. There have been some thrills and spills along the way. What their...; Tags: Real estate, Investment, REIT, stock market, stock; White papers 2006-04-18
Institutional Investors and stock market Volatility: This paper presents a theory of excess stock market volatility, in which market movements are due to trades by very large institutional investors in relatively illiquid markets. Such trades generate significant spikes in returns and volume, even in the absence of important news about fundamentals. It derives the optimal trading...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, National Bureau of Economic Research, stock market, investor, absence, stock, theory; White papers 2005-10-01
The Dot-Com Bubble the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account: Stock market movements are usually interpreted as reflecting exogenous changes in perceived or real productivity, while budget deficits are usually understood as a mainly political decision. The paper challenges this view here and develops two alternative interpretations. Both are based on the notion that a bubble the 'dot-com' bubble) has...; Tags: Investment, National Bureau of Economic Research, stock market, bubble, dot-com, stock, asset; White papers 2005-08-01