Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
GDP Suggests Time’s Running Out for Obama
By Ben WarwickTodays market rally is probably due to traders gaming Obamas decreasing chances for a second term.
July 26, 2012
Advising the Aging Brain; Running a Cool Workplace: August Research—SlideshowFinancial decision-making ability peaks in middle age, according to a body of research cited by Michael Finke of Texas Tech University in his cover story for the August issue of Research, The Challenge of the Aging Brain. In A Cool Place to Work, Ellen Uzelac looks at how some advisors...
July 26, 2012
Top of the Dividend ChartsWith current market conditions and global economic trends, advisors have a good opportunity to introduce more clients to companies that make the Mergent Dividend Achievers roster.
July 26, 2012
Prediction TimeForecasting election outcomes has taken on some of the trappings of a science in recent years.
July 26, 2012
Sandy Weill Wants Banks Small Again, Chris Dodd Wants Them BigIf politics makes strange bedfellows, it also makes for strange adversaries.
July 26, 2012
Olympic Marketing: It All Started in 1896Without the help of a wealthy philanthropist, the modern Olympics would likely have been moved before the first event was even held.
July 26, 2012
Draghi Says ECB Will Do ‘Whatever It Takes’ECB President Mario Draghi declared that the central bank will do whatever it takes to keep the euro intact, as eurozone central banks looked for new ways to spur bank lending and undo the blocs financial logjam.
July 26, 2012
Congress can’t be trusted to fix itself (Atlantic)Bob Kerrey is the current Democratic nominee for the Nebraska Senate seat, which he held from 1989 to 2001. Away from the game for 11 years, Kerrey is not happy with how Congress has changed.