Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Is the Market Irrationally Exuberant?
By Ron DeLeggeAdvisors and investors should watch volatility closely, and beware of buying trends that aren't backed by strong fundamentals, experts say.
August 02, 2013
The Hunt for a Pension Crisis FixIts gotten so bad that many cities have found themselves paying more for retiree benefits than they do for public services such as fire and police.
August 02, 2013
Jeremy Siegel Sees ‘Really Great’ Opportunities in Emerging MarketsJeremy Siegel, a senior advisor for WisdomTree and professor at The Wharton School, told investors on a quarterly call what he thought about the economy, Obamacare and Medicare.
August 01, 2013
Janet Tavakoli: SEC Needs to Wake Up, Make Bad Money Managers Pay UpWall Street scourge Janet Tavakoli usually reserves her fire for big cheating firms, but she turned her ire on the SEC regarding its criminal indictment of SAC Capital on insider trading charges.
August 01, 2013
Why Bond Prices Won’t Go (Straight) Down—Searching for Alpha for August 2013The recent downtick of the CPI to 1.40% should put a little wind in the sale of Treasury prices, which should help equity prices.
July 31, 2013
U.S. Economy Grew at Sluggish 1.7% Pace in Q2The U.S. economy grew from April through June at an annual rate of 1.7% a sluggish pace but stronger than in the previous quarter. Government cutbacks have weighed heavily on the economy the past 12 months.
July 31, 2013
How Bad Was Financial Crisis? $30 Trillion Lost Bad: Dallas FedThe cost of the crisis may top the value of one year of the countrys economic output when hard-to-measure factors are included, according to an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
July 30, 2013
Fact-free ‘middle-out’ economicsWho else can we blame for the economic crisis of 2008?