Aging baby boomers may hold down U.S. stock values for the next two
decades as they sell their investments to finance retirement, according
to a paper from the San Francisco Fed.
Meredith Whitney, the bank analyst who correctly predicted Citigroup
Inc.'s dividend cut three years ago, said Bank of America Corp. has no
urgent need to raise capital...
by Brandon Thomas
Navigating the post-downgrade market -- which investments may generate positive returns in rough waters.
by Tom Lydon
With Treasury yields near record lows, exchange-traded fund (ETF)
investors have options to satiate their hunger for high dividend
payouts...
Global stock markets are "bouncing along the bottom" after tumbling 16
percent in the past four weeks, and will start to climb as inflation
accelerates, said Templeton Asset Management's Mark...
by Andy Kapyrin and Chris Cordaro
A well-known financial advisor and a research director argue this popular measure of stock price value may be unreliable now...
Last week's record volatility in U.S. stocks ended after four days. The
anxiety it instilled among mutual-fund investors may linger for years.
by
Jim McConville
Investors who have stayed out of equities since the financial crisis
have made far less money than those who returned to equities,
according to a Fidelity Investments report released today.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said the central
bank shouldn't ease monetary policy whenever there is a big drop in
U.S. stock prices.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. increased its stake in Wells
Fargo & Co...
by J. Michael Martin
Here's what a leading advisor had to say in a memo to his clients about the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt and where to invest.
Individual municipal-bond investors aren't fleeing the market after
Standard & Poor's lowered the credit rating of thousands of bonds.
More
executives at Standard & Poor's 500 Index companies are buying their
stock than any time since the depths of the credit crisis after
valuations plunged 25 percent below their five-decade...
Stocks
slid, dragging the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the lowest level
since September 2010, and Treasuries rose for a third day amid concern
the European sovereign debt crisis is...
Bank of
America Corp. CEO Brian T. Moynihan said he has no
plans to step aside as head of the biggest U.S. lender.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
BofA's $33 billion plunge in market value over the past
week has stoked concern that CEO Brian T. Moynihan
needs to raise capital even as his options for finding it narrow by the
day.
by
Dorothy Hinchcliff
U.S. stocks tumbled, extending the biggest slump for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index since 2008's bear market. The Dow closed 634.76 points, or 5.6%, lower.
Fidelity Investments' largest mutual fund that invests in small-company
stocks was the biggest loser in the U.S...
