Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
IMF Urges Fed to Delay Rate Hike
By Kasia KlimasinskaThe Fed should hold off on raising interest rates until the first half of 2016, the IMF said as it cut its U.S. growth forecast.
June 01, 2015
What a Non-Middle Class Economy Looks LikePay to play increasingly dominates American life.
June 01, 2015
Physics and InnovationWhile Ive never seen any good research on the topic, anecdotally Ive met many investment advisors who have hard-science backgrounds, at least on the undergraduate level, and areas like economics and mathematics are at least sciences (our own Ben Warwick has undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering, physics and chemistry, in...
June 01, 2015
Global Investing: Where Hot Prospects Are Today & TomorrowA variety of growth prospects in the developed and developing world bode well for investors.
June 01, 2015
How to Dodge the New Medicare Surcharge BulletThe new Medicare Doc Fix law will subject more retired clients to the highest Medicare premium rates, but planning techniques can minimize the impact.
June 01, 2015
3 Reasons We’re Not at a Market Top: Searching for Alpha for June 2015Disappointing GDP data and hints of an impending rate hike led some market watchers to predict a stock drop. Are they leaving the party early?
June 01, 2015
Chinese Stocks: Too Hot to Handle?A continued equity bull market in the Asian nation depends on several important catalysts.