Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Matthews Asia Joins Frontier Rush
By John SullivanWere seeing certain markets that are at the same point China was 20 years ago, a Matthews portfolio manager said.
May 17, 2013
Stocks Have Room to Rise, but So Do Interest Rates: J.P. Morgan’s KellyJ.P. Morgan Asset Management's David Kelly believes the biggest drag on the U.S. economy is the Federal Reserve, and investors must prepare for inflation.
May 17, 2013
Top Portfolio Products: Goldman Launches Alts FundAlso announced in the last week: an emerging-markets government bond index fund from Vanguard.
May 17, 2013
Purchasing Pools: The Brazilian Remedy to Ease America’s Credit CrunchThe Brazilian economy and legal system may offer the American middle class a way out of its credit access problem via the Brazilian Purchasing Pool System.
May 15, 2013
3 Market Strategies for Advisors, Investors From RussellThe investment group also has four steps advisors and clients may want to consider for the rest of the year in their bond investments.
May 14, 2013
Move Over, Saudi Arabia, and Let North Dakota Take OverA buyers market in oil is in the making and will bring about disruptive market change that should benefit American manufacturers and consumers and prove challenging for Middle Eastern producers and European refiners.
May 14, 2013
Europeans grow dissatisfied with the inequities of the economic systemPeople arent happy that the gap between the rich and the poor has widened in the past five years.
May 13, 2013
Will Britain leave the EU?Talk of the possibility of Britain breaking out of the EU is spreading.