Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Jeremy Siegel Sees ‘Really Great’ Opportunities in Emerging Markets
By Danielle AndrusJeremy Siegel, a senior advisor for WisdomTree and professor at The Wharton School, told investors on a quarterly call what he thought about the economy, Obamacare and Medicare.
July 31, 2013
U.S. Economy Grew at Sluggish 1.7% Pace in Q2The U.S. economy grew from April through June at an annual rate of 1.7% a sluggish pace but stronger than in the previous quarter. Government cutbacks have weighed heavily on the economy the past 12 months.
July 31, 2013
How Bad Was Financial Crisis? $30 Trillion Lost Bad: Dallas FedThe cost of the crisis may top the value of one year of the countrys economic output when hard-to-measure factors are included, according to an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
July 30, 2013
Fact-free ‘middle-out’ economicsWho else can we blame for the economic crisis of 2008?
July 30, 2013
States Improve Budget Decisions by Using Cost-Benefit Analyses, Study FindsIt might sound simplistic, but Pew-MacArthur study finds that using data to drive decisions improves performance.
July 30, 2013
Give Us Tougher Financial Reform, Americans SayThree years since passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, a survey finds that Americans want to continue to rein in Wall Street.
July 29, 2013
Is India Turning a Corner?Only three years ago, India was shaking off the effects of the global financial crisis better than most, but today India is going through a surprise soft patch that cannot be blamed purely on externalities.