Economic Trends
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Top 10 U.S. Cities With Best Economic Growth
By Marlene Y. SatterThe country might be recovering from a recession, but you'd never know it in Washington, D.C. So says POLICOM’s list of the top 10 metro economies.
April 30, 2011
Advisors: How to overcome price objectionsMost of us know in our bones that if a client objects on price, the problem is not really price. Conventional wisdom says the problem is value.
April 27, 2011
Fed's Bernanke, in First Press Conference, Rules Out QE3Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said during his first press conference that the economic recovery was “proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in the labor market are improving gradually.” He also said the Fed was “looking carefully at inflation.”
April 01, 2011
Electric Utilities: Powered UpMichael S. Worms BMO Capital Markets Corp. 212-885-4031 [email protected] With the 4Q10 earnings season now complete, following are some of our perceptions…
March 30, 2011
Advisor Confidence Slips Further, Echoing Consumer UncertaintyThe drop marks the second month in a row that Rydex|SGI Advisor Confidence Index fell on the day after consumer confidence report showed a decline.
March 29, 2011
Advisor ethics: Dating, emotions and the truth about price objectionHow often have you tried to convince a price-objecting client that actually, the value of the product or solution is quite high. I don't know about you, but in my experience, it has rarely worked.
March 07, 2011
Volatility: Time to Buy, Sell or Embrace It?New volatility ETFs could provide a solution to the geopolitical uncertainty now weighing on the markets
March 07, 2011
Taxes and Fed Nominees; Galleon, SEC Budget and Oil: Advisor Briefing for the Week of March 7, 2011Congress holds hearings on everything from reforming the tax code and the SEC’s 2012 budget to grilling nominees for a Fed governorship and White House economic posts, while the markets will continue to watch the situation in Libya and the Mideast.