The U.S. economy as we know it is headed for a huge correction. Financial and economic implosion is always a slow and stealthy process that grows over time behind the scenes.
Nile Capital Management believes the dynamics of frontier markets favor active management over indexing.
With the recent collapse in the value of Puerto Rico bonds and subsequent recovery in October and November 2013, the time is ripe for a post-mortem on this high-profile bond issuer.
Templeton’s Cindy Sweeting believes a selective approach to investing in emerging markets will be crucial this year.
The Caribbean island received cold news last week when both S&P and Moody's downgraded Puerto Rico to high-yield or "junk" territory.
Americans are earning less and have less money to spend.
Now is the time to take these steps with clients so that when the stock market corrects, they won't get a painful reminder of what their risk profile really is.
There's finally some recognition that the Federal Reserve's actions really did produce some stimulus. This could lead to self-sustaining growth in the US economy in 2014.
Given the prospect of rising U.S. Treasury yields in the coming year, high-yield bonds will produce positive returns in 2014 but won't match their performance in 2013.
When building or rebalancing the “value” slice of portfolios, advisors may start where most valuation-conscious investors begin: the price/earnings ratio.
The markets in this upside down U.S. economy continue to go up while the fundamentals continue to get worse.
We could finally see better U.S. economic growth in 2014 because of the diminishing impact of last year's higher taxes and reduced government spending, according to Christopher J...
Currency movements often are an overlooked component of return, says Steve Osterink Jr., chief investment officer for asset manager Advisory Alpha.
Low levels of both short- and long-term interest rates have made the search for yield more challenging than ever.
As of Q3, the market capitalization of equities was 14.7 times corporate profits, not much higher than the average since 1960.
QE’s effect on the stock market is anything other than substantial...
What happened to the good old days when good news was good for the financial markets and bad news was bad for it?
The information technology industry is one of the most competitive in the world. Creative destruction is its modus operandi.
The latest American Association of Individual Investors survey showed the lowest amount of pessimism about the U.S...