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Obama's Learning Curve: Will the President Absorb a Key Lesson of Market History?
By Staff WriterWhether you like or loathe him -- everyone can agree President Obama's term had a bumpy start -- at least for markets. His first few...
May 01, 2009
Who Caught the Rally?: Searching for Alpha, May 2009The huge equity gains in April were a welcome respite from recent volatility.
April 22, 2009
What's Next for Gold?Unexpectedly, though, the dream of $1,500-per-ounce gold has been unfulfilled.
April 08, 2009
Insurance stocks rally following TARP announcementLife insurance stocks rallied this morning following word from the Treasury Department that it plans to offer bailout funds to struggling companies. Shares in this...
April 06, 2009
401(k)s show drop in stock exposureFor the first time in over a decade, American workers held less than half of their 401(k) money in stocks, according to findings from Hewitt...
April 02, 2009
Dow climbs more than 250 pointsBy 11:15 a.m. the Dow Jones Industrial Average was higher by more than 255 points or 3.5 percent, climbing over the 8,000 mark for the...
April 01, 2009
A Guarded Return to Risk Taking: Searching for Alpha, April 2009With current rates extremely low, the pain of holding cash at zero yield may be enough to convince investors to take a chance with some of the more battered asset classes.