Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Fed seeks data showing happiness is a full shopping cart
By Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg, Craig Torres, BloombergReal disposable incomes rose 6.2 percent in the first quarter, the most in more than two years.
May 01, 2015
GMO’s Grantham: Some Boom Left Before the DoomJeremy Grantham thinks the market will rise another 8% before the bubble bursts, leaving a legacy of multiyear negative real returns.
May 01, 2015
Summer’s Coming: When Trends and Fundamentals Disagree — Searching for Alpha for May 2015Do current fundamentals support last months equity pullback, or is this is a case where market action and fundamentals simply disagree?
May 01, 2015
Consumer sentiment in U.S. rises to second-highest since 2007A stronger sense of job security and building momentum in wage growth are helping to buoy consumer confidence.
May 01, 2015
SEC Investigates Bank of America for Doing NothingIf you make it too obvious that your transaction is about getting around rules, that's the sort of thing that the SEC doesn't like.
April 30, 2015
Israeli Startups’ Early Exits Yield Investment OpportunityCrowdfunding platform targets the U.S. RIA market in the capital-hungry startup nation.
April 30, 2015
Deconstructing DurationLearn more about this often cited and sometimes misunderstood metric.
April 30, 2015
4 Things Advisors Need to Know When Switching to ETFsThere are important differences with mutual funds that need to be considered by advisors.