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BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Maria Bartiromo |
Steve Schwarzman Starts Warming Up The author talks to Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman about the state of the private equity market, changes on Wall Street, and the outlook for various types of investments.  |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: A Lifeline of Credit for the Recovery Lending remains tight, but overall bank standards are relaxing, and that will make it possible for businesses to expand as demand picks up  |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Peter Coy |
Is the Fed Creating New Bubbles? Its easy-money policy has Asia worried. But Bernanke says fears of a speculative surge are overblown  |
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Stanley Reed |
A Chill in Britain With more layoffs looming, it may struggle in 2010, too  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Only Asset Worth Owning Today In a world in which the governments of industrialized nations (including, most prominently, the U.S.) are doing everything in their power to debase the value of their currencies, it would hardly be surprising to witness some shift into gold.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Let Dollar Double-Talk Deceive You Never before have foreign exchange concerns been more at the forefront of public awareness than they are right now, but currencies can be confusing. Here's the straight scoop.  |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2009 Francis et al. |
Wall Street Plays Hardball Taxpayers are taking another hit as strapped local governments fork over billions in fees on investments gone bad  |
TIME Asia November 23, 2009 Jeremy Siegel |
Why Stocks Still Rock The past decade has certainly been painful. But history is emphatic that long periods of below-average performance are followed by periods of above-average returns. Stocks still have substantial upside potential.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Nathan Parmelee |
Get Ready for a Boom in India India's market may dip, but in the long term, privatization should be a big plus for the country.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Christopher Barker |
Wrap Your Head Around Gold Gold continues to march higher on a strong fundamental footing.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
What's Next: Hunting Killer Trends The prevalence of pop-up stores this holiday season may be a mere anomaly. Then again, it could signal a new drive toward change, innovation, and recreation in retail.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
Cleaning Up the Crisis MFS Investment Management chairman and author Bob Pozen discusses the current state of the economy.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Jordan DiPietro |
The Good, the Bad, and the Dollar What a weak dollar means for the U.S., and the possibility of a global currency replacement.  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
What the New Carry Trade Means for You The hot money's doing it. Should you? What the heck is a carry trade?  |
The Motley Fool November 18, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Undoing of the Great American Economy Think we're working toward a smooth recovery? Where the U.S. was once primarily an industrial nation, we are now a country very focused on financial engineering and the trading of paper assets.  |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 John Rosevear |
Recovery? On What Planet? Remember those market moves you wish you'd made in the summer of 2008, before the crash? This might be your second chance to get it right.  |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Tim Hanson |
Don't Make These Mistakes in Emerging Markets When investors approach emerging markets, they tend to make two key mistakes. By the end of this article, however, you will know how to avoid them.  |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
The Simplest Investing Tool If you're looking for fast growing stocks, revenue's a great place to begin your search.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
How Long Should You Ride This Rally? This rally has been a great ride, but is it time to hop off?  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
The Hottest Sector for 2010 It's hard to argue that the potential benefits to this sector won't be significant if health care reform does work its way through. The time to stock up on high-quality health-care names is now.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Stephen Mauzy |
What Goes Up Doesn't Have to Come Down ... Yet The data show that stocks can go up ... and up and up before they go down, a notion that flummoxes many traders and investors, who cite mean reversion to argue that markets must revert to an average performance or valuation level.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Tim Hanson |
The Price of Democracy The data shows that investors actually prefer dictatorships over democracies -- or at least one major dictatorship over one major democracy.  |
The Motley Fool November 16, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Big Opportunity Everyone's Ignoring Now With so many investors retreating to cash, bonds, and the most conservative of stocks, that makes now a perfect time to take a second look at some of the most promising companies you can find in today's market.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Moscovitz & Housel |
It's Time to End 'Too Big to Fail' We spent the latter half of 2008 feeling the wrath of "too big to fail." Today, banks are bigger than ever. We need to end that. Now.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Tim Hanson |
This Rally Can't Continue The rally across Chinese stocks this year is overdone. Maybe it's time to short these three stocks: NetEase.com... China TechFaith Wireless... China BAK Battery...  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Daily Walk of Shame: Bubble Junkies Did we learn nothing from the past year's calamity? Asset bubbles of epic proportions triggered the economic crisis that still plagues us.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Jim Mueller |
The 4 Most Dangerous Words for Your Portfolio Don't let these four words, "This time it's different," keep you from investing in market outperformers.  |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Maria Bartiromo |
Byron Wien: What the Seer Sees in the Short Term A conversation with investment strategist Byron Wien of Blackstone.  |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Signs Say: Job Growth Ahead Don't expect payrolls to turn around quickly, but economic trends are encouraging. Plus, heady productivity gains are not sustainable, and more workers will soon be needed.  |
BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Chris Farrell |
Books: John Cassidy's How Markets Fail Blind faith in the markets, says John Cassidy, author of How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities, caused the financial meltdown. We can avert future calamities via 'reality-based economics'  |
Registered Rep. November 12, 2009 Stan Luxenberg |
How To Play Asia, (Relatively) Conservatively Asian stocks are boosted by strong growth throughout the region.  |
Registered Rep. November 12, 2009 |
Market Expert Barry Ritholtz on Registered Rep The well-known market commentator and editor of The Big Picture discusses his thoughts on the economy and markets and what he thinks lies ahead for investors.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
This Is Poison for Our Economy There's a lot of talk of recovery, but has our financial system really seen the light?  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
What Everyone's Forgetting in This Rally Balance is the key to successful investing, in a rally such as this one, or anytime.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
'Animal Spirits,' Real Estate, and Economic Health Part two of our interview with Yale professor Robert Shiller an the market and the economy.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Powerfully Performing ADRs American deposit receipts are nifty devices that help you invest in international markets.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Will the Baby Boom Spell Doom for Stocks? Retiring boomers will need cash. Will they dump their assets en masse?  |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu |
How to Win When the Market Is Cheating You Believe it or not, though, some economists actually see the good in insider trading. In fact, they want to abolish our current rules and allow insider trading. Here's why.  |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
Predictions From the Man Who Called the Housing Meltdown Yale professor Robert Shiller shares his views on the future of the housing market.  |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
It's Raining Pink Slips Corporate layoffs keep coming. Even as many economists feel that the worst is behind us, companies that know their future prospects the best are hunkering down.  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Should You Buy Stocks, Bonds, or Gold? All are going up. Which will go down?  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Forget About This Stupid Rally The rally is certainly exciting, but will that excitement benefit your portfolio?  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Dow's New High Signals Change Is the shift to quality beginning? This high could be symbolic of a shift in the market away from lower-quality/higher-risk names to higher-quality stocks.  |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
2 Winning Trends for 2010 Anticipate what investors will do and make money. An old investing maxim says that "the trend is your friend."  |
Food Processing November 2009 |
Editor's Plate: Significant Signs of Economic Hope The Great Recession is not being replaced by the Great Recovery, but celebrate the victories and do your part to keep this momentum rolling.  |
RealtorMag Online November 2009 Mariwyn Evans |
The Future of Commercial Demand Financing matters, but jobs will be most important in determining a timeline for commercial real estate recovery.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Sean Ryan |
Pawn Lenders Looking More Like Kings A confluence of trends looks ready to push pawn lenders higher. The declining availability of credit should spur more demand for pawn loans, and rising gold prices should make those loans more profitable.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
What If the Recovery Is Scorching? Would investors see large gains?  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
This Market Double Is No Bubble Emerging markets are red-hot, and ETFs are not to blame.  |
The Motley Fool November 7, 2009 Kris Eddy |
Walk of Shame: You Be the Judge Which choice is the most shameful of the week concerning ads for the new Droid phone, the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates, CEO corporate conduct, Volcker's plans for the finance industry, and cash for electronic golf carts.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Earnings Season Should Be Learning Season Here are seven market bellwethers that are forecast to post lower earnings next week than they did a year ago: Repsol YPF... Agilent... J.C. Penney... Urban Outfitters... Trex... Cinemark... Teekay...  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Todd Wenning |
Time to Pull the Trigger? Fortunately, the market goes on sale from time to time, and those are the moments that provide us the chance to buy proven businesses and hold them for the long run. Keeping a watch list and some spare cash allows you to pull the trigger on these rare opportunities when they arise.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Adam J. Wiederman |
The Coming Bubble of 2010 and How to Avoid It Don't be left in the wreckage. Unlike gold, which has no coupon rate and no growth potential, you should be sending your investing dollars to companies that pay a dividend.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
Inflation Is Coming, Sooner or Later What can investors do to proactively stave off inflation? Well, many of the traditional measures we turn to may not work quite as neatly as we would believe.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
The Downside of Dollar-Cost Averaging With dollar-cost averaging, investors accumulate shares of an investment over time, investing set sums on a set schedule. But remember, trend is not always your friend with this approach.  |
The Motley Fool November 6, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
Is Another Lost Decade Coming for Stocks? Big losses have made even long-term investors nervous.  |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 Der Hovanesian & Foust |
Why This Real Estate Bust Is Different Unrealistic assumptions, layers of investors, sky-high prices, and possible fraud will make it hard to clean up the mess in commercial real estate.  |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 James C. Cooper |
Business Outlook: The Fed: A Whole New Playbook for Tightening Now that growth is picking up, it'll soon be time to sop up excess funds. But given the unconventional easing of the past year, the old methods no longer apply.  |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2009 Ben Levisohn |
Market Divide Experts analyze where stock prices will be heading in the months ahead.  |
Insurance & Technology November 2, 2009 |
Geithner: 'Choppy' U.S. Recovery Under Way A "choppy" and "uneven" U.S. economic recovery is under way, says Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.  |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Cisco Says the Recession Is (Mostly) Dead Cisco reports great results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, and CEO John Chambers says this recession is over... with a couple of caveats.  |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
You Call This a Recovery? Corporate layoffs keep coming.  |
The Motley Fool November 5, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The One Reason the Rally Will Continue -- Debunked Putting a bullish argument, about available cash on the sidelines, through the ringer.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Matt Hoffman |
The Next Buffett? The world's first potential "carbon billionaire" could be Al Gore, one of the leading advocates of the Green Revolution -- a conscious government effort akin to the development of the Internet, aimed at making renewable energy and clean technologies a reality.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
The Scary Move You Need to Make Now Investing in foreign markets can be frightening, but it's worth the effort.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Protecting Your Assets in the "Mother of All Bubbles" Nouriel Roubini of New York University recently warned that "the mother of all ... global asset bubbles" may be under way, in which all risky assets almost everywhere have run beyond what the fundamentals will bear.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Can the Market Survive the Economy? The economy may be recovering, but the market may not continue to blaze ahead.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
View From the Inside: Is the Luxury Sector Recovering? Executives from Saks, Coach, and Tom Ford International discuss their outlook on luxury.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 John Rosevear |
A Stupid Idea That Deserves to Die If you think markets are efficient, I've got a bridge to sell you.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Daily Walk of Shame: The Fed The real economy versus the Federal Reserve.  |
The Motley Fool November 3, 2009 Dan Caplinger |
These Cash Hoarders Will Make You Rich Why panic about corporate saving?  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Bob Veres |
A Better World Some positive transformations that have emerged from the various market downturns.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Brian Gaffney |
Attitude Adjustment Today, more than a year after the fall of Lehman Brothers, investors seem to be breathing a bit easier.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2009 Stacy Schultz |
A Split Game Mutual fund investors remain split over where the economy is headed.  |
Financial Advisor November 2009 Seth Becker |
The Crisis Next Time Lessons from the recent financial crisis may help avert a future meltdown.  |
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green |
Editor's Note: At Least One Booming Market One sector of the economy appears to be booming and that's the survey industry.  |
Investment Advisor November 2009 James J. Green |
On the Sidelines for Some Time One of the main signs that investors remain skeptical about the economic recovery is that plenty of money remains on the sidelines.  |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Vaughan Scully |
A Short History of Gold Since the dawn of civilization, gold, silver, and other precious metals have been regarded by investors worldwide as a unique store of value.  |
Investment Advisor November 2009 Melanie Waddell |
SEC Sets Out Strategic Plan The Securities and Exchange Commission publishes its Draft Strategic Plan outlining the Commission's strategic goals for 2010 through 2015.  |
On Wall Street November 1, 2009 Tim Knepp |
Growth Equities: How Big Can They Get? The allure of growth equity investments is based on reasonable logic, that companies experiencing higher earnings growth would seem to be more attractive than those with average growth.  |
Bank Systems & Technology October 27, 2009 United Press International |
Canadian Bank Warns of Inflated Dollar One of Canada's largest banks issues a warning to the central bank to intervene in the appreciation of the country's dollar, the loonie.  |
Information Age October 20, 2009 |
The Return of Big Deals After a protracted cold patch, IT sector acquisition activity intensified in September 2009 and billion-dollar deals were back on the menu.  |
Information Age October 20, 2009 |
Information Age Index - a Year in Decline The IT industry has now endured negative average revenue growth for a full 12 months.  |
IndustryWeek October 21, 2009 |
The Future of Manufacturing 2009 Manufacturing leaders chart the impact of the recession and identify the opportunities and risks facing the U.S. manufacturing sector in the years ahead.  |
IndustryWeek October 21, 2009 |
First Up -- The Two Sides of Climate Change While the move to a greener economy offers many exciting opportunities, the transition is also fraught with peril.  |
IndustryWeek October 21, 2009 Peter Morici |
Thought Leader -- Are We Running Out of Time on Trade Issues? The manufacturing sector needs to see some relief in the next few years if the U.S. economy is to grow.  |
Registered Rep. October 20, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
Protect Yourself, Says Einhorn, the U.S. Is Headed Toward a Fiscal Crisis In a speech to the Value Investing Congress David Einhorn paints a dim view of our financial system and the government's role of enabler.  |
Registered Rep. October 14, 2009 Christina Mucciolo |
Playing Asia After The Runup It's not too late to invest in the sector, as long as you have a long-term investing horizon and proceed with caution.  |
Fast Company November 2009 Danielle Sacks |
How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard Not long ago, economist Noreena Hertz lived at the lefty margins of her field. But her (widely ignored) prediction of the credit crisis and her call for a more evolved form of capitalism have suddenly put her at the center of the universe.  |
Fast Company November 2009 Kate Rockwood |
Battle of the Books: Scroogenomics vs. Shoptimism Just in time for holiday shopping are two books centered on consumerism: Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays, by Joel Waldfogel, and Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, by Lee Eisenberg.  |
Bank Systems & Technology October 7, 2009 |
Fed Looks at Pay Policies Beyond Top Tier Execs The U.S. Federal Reserve is reviewing options for pay policies for employees far beyond a bank's top executives.  |
MyBusiness Oct/Nov 2009 Bill Dunkelberg |
Leading Indicators All signs point to recovery, but it has yet to begin.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Jeffrey A. Frankel |
Anticipating the Next Crisis What can early warning systems be expected to deliver to predict the next economic crisis?  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Andrew Crockett |
Rebuilding the Financial Architecture What needs to be done to strengthen financial regulation and supervision?  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Carlo Cottarelli & Jose Vinals |
Looking Ahead Countries must begin now to devise economic strategies to accompany the recovery.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Francesco Giavazzi |
Growth after the Crisis If the world economy is to recover, a replacement must be found for the newly frugal U.S. consumer.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Benjamin J. Cohen |
The Future of Reserve Currencies For nearly a century, the U.S. dollar has reigned supreme, but are those days over?  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
Faces of the Crisis - One Crisis, Six Lives The stories of six people, told here in their own voices, illustrate better than any economic analysis just how integrated the world is today, and how intertwined our fates have become as a consequence.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Atish R. Ghoshet et al. |
Anticipating the Next Crisis THE current global financial turmoil has rekindled the interest of both policymakers and the general public in early warning systems to anticipate future financial crises. But what alarms can such systems realistically sound?  |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
Dial Growth Handheld devices are enabling nascent economies to skip a generation of development.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Edward Gemayel & Samar Maziad |
Delivering on Change The IMF has created a new support framework for the world's low-income countries.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
In Brief World economic news: Increasing global liquidity... World hunger at historic highs... Mobile phone use worldwide... IMF blog... Economic events and calendar...  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Jeremy Clift |
Questioning a Chastened Priesthood A profile of psychologist Daniel Kahneman about the psychological research of economic science.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 Koshy Mathai |
Back to Basics: What Is Monetary Policy? MONETARY policy has lived under many guises. But however it may appear, it generally boils down to adjusting the supply of money in the economy to achieve some combination of inflation and output stabilization.  |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
Book Reviews Books of economic interest: Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo... Successes of the International Monetary Fund: Untold Stories of Cooperation at Work, by Michael A. Clemens... more...  |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
Flows to Eastern Europe Foreign banks have supported eastern European banks, but the financial crisis has reversed this trend.  |
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