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S&P 500 Should Soon Surpass 1,500 if History Is a Guide
By Gil WeinreichNearly seven decades of history foretell an immediate stock price surge following significant market drops, thus signaling a rally in the waning months of the year, S&P Capital IQ's Sam Stovall says in a new equity research report.
August 17, 2012
Road to retirement shouldn’t be paved with stocksAdvisors should be instructing clients to work longer, cut spending and use a reverse mortgage, according to a new study.
August 16, 2012
Apple in the DowIn the specific case of Apple, there are reasons to believe that a Dow announcement would benefit the stock.
August 14, 2012
Equities Cult High Priest Malkiel Burns PIMCO’s Gross: Reducing Stocks Would Be ‘Huge Mistake’PIMCO Chairman Bill Gross launched a bond investors jihad recently with his remarks that the cult of equities is dying. Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, is the latest to fire back.
August 13, 2012
What Bubble? Dividend Stocks Continue to Pay Off for Income Seekers: Global XDespite market buzz that dividend-paying stocks are nearing bubble-like proportions, investor demand keeps driving Global X Funds to create new income-producing ETFs, CEO Bruno del Ama said Monday.
August 09, 2012
Dividend NationThe world of stock dividends appears to be at a kind of crossroads these days.
August 06, 2012
Warren Buffett Drops Consumer Stocks, Buys Into BanksBillionaire investor Warren Buffett backed away from stocks in the second quarter, reducing the companys holdings in consumer-products equities but investing more heavily in the finance sector.
August 02, 2012
PIMCO’s Gross Slams Draghi, Says Jeremy Siegel Belongs in ‘Ivory Tower’The co-CIO of PIMCO said Draghi should have offered concrete policy steps at Thursdays ECB policy meeting.