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The stock market news and analysis you need to know when developing, monitoring and adjusting client portfolios.
Outlook 2012: Value Investing — A Glimmer in the Gloom
By Joyce HansonLike value investment gurus Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, today's stock pickers believe that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.
December 07, 2011
How Could J.P. Morgan Deliver Stocks and Bonds Cheaper Than Today’s Industry?While the Occupy Wall Street movement regards Wall Street greed as the reason for all the money sloshing around lower Manhattan, new academic research suggests that todays huge appetite for trading may explain the financial industrys large size.
December 07, 2011
Pearl Harbor Remembered: Market Reaction to That Infamous DayFor the 12 months prior to the attack, the average daily trading volume on the Dow Jones Industrial Average was about 560,000 shares.
December 05, 2011
S&P Launches Index with Middle East FocusS&P Indices announced on Monday that it has partnered with the Arab Federation of Exchanges to launch an index of 40 companies based in the Middle East.
December 01, 2011
Is a December Rally Likely?—Searching for Alpha for December 2011The central bank-inspired rally may very well continue up through the end of 2011.
November 28, 2011
Stocks Soar After Big Holiday Shopping WeekendA strong start to the U.S. shopping season and fresh proposals for a far-reaching solution to Europe's debt crisis sent stocks sharply higher Monday.
November 23, 2011
Dividend TroubleIn the third quarter, an unusual situation arose in U.S. financial markets: dividend yield on stocks surpassed the interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond. While some technical analysts saw this as a strong buy signal, and the market did subsequently rally, the real explanation is probably far less favorable...
November 14, 2011
Vanguard Expert: Dividend-Paying Stocks ‘Are Not Bonds’As investors look to dividend-paying stocks for yields, an economist with Vanguard cautions them against substituting such investments for lower-volatility vehicles, like bonds