Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Bank Bonuses, Retail Sales, Jobless Claims: Advisor Briefing for the Week of July 6, 2010
By James J. GreenWhat's happening this week.
July 01, 2010
Policy Analytics: Investing in a Rising Tax EnvironmentA year and a half into the Obama administration, the federal budget deficit is soaring. Spending has swelled as the government expended funds to support...
July 01, 2010
Worrisome ItalyCharles De Gaulle reputedly once said that when it came to Europe, Germany was meat, France was potatoes and everything else was just a side...
July 01, 2010
Summer Conferences: Handling a CrisisHollywood, Fla. -- At Pershing's Insite 2010 conference in June, three top financial advisors outlined the steps they've taken to succeed during the financial meltdown...
June 30, 2010
How to Identify a 'Sucker's Rally'An analysis of a composite of time-tested indicators shows that the "sucker rally" from the March 2009 lows is coming or has already come to an end.
June 30, 2010
Knight Capital Group Establishes New Fixed Income EntityKnight Capital Group Inc. has hired a team of five traders and relationship managers from Morgan Stanley to provide fixed income sales, trading and research to the advisor community through a new entity called Knight Advisor Services.
June 30, 2010
Long accountantsFirst the Monday a.m. headline on MSN Money's Web site says "Stocks Struggle..." and then another headline indicates, moments later, that stocks are rising
June 29, 2010
Research Senior Editor Ken Silber discusses the resurgent stock market of the 1950sResearch Senior Editor Ken Silber on the Gabe Wisdom Show of 6/29/10, Business Talk Radio, discusses how the stock market recovered and regained public interest in the 1950s, and the le