Market & Economy

Magazine articles on market level and economy, market sectors, international markets, growth vs. value.

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The Motley Fool March 1, 2005 Rich Duprey	Roof Collapses on Housing Sales and prices of new single-family housing fall; is bad weather to blame?
Financial Advisor March 2005 Evan Simonoff	Editor's Note The task of generating an income stream that a retiree can survive on without draining all their assets grows more challenging each year.
Financial Advisor March 2005 William J. Bernstein	The Good Company, Bad Stock Phenomenon Views on why value investments produce better returns than growth investments.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Dorothy Hinchcliff	A New Investment Frontier For financial advisors, international commercial real estate may be another way to diversity portfolios. REITs will broaden the shareholder base in global real estate and make it easier for smaller players to invest.
Financial Advisor March 2005 Marla Brill	Squeezing Gains Out Of Bonds In 2005 It's a bond picker's market. Beware of corporate releveraging.
Managed Care February 2005	Medicare drives plan membership; Wall Street moderately bullish In a world riddled by risk, managed care is giving Wall Street reason for optimism. Last year, the sector had a banner year -- with an average weighted return of 49 percent, compared with 9 percent for the S&P 500
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Cooper & Madigan	Is That a Whiff of Inflation? The forces that have held inflation back are starting to move in another direction. And 2005 will offer a crucial test of just how much our new age of global competition can continue to keep price pressures under wraps.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Gail Edmondson	A Red Carpet For Americans As the pickings in the U.S. get lean, private equity groups have discovered that Europe is the land of opportunity.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Brian Bremner	Who Wants The Yuan To Rise? Why multinationals aren't joining the U.S. campaign to revalue China's yuan.
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Mike McNamee	For High Earners, a Higher Limit? Taxing high earners on more of their pay could go a long way toward filling Social Security's long-term funding gap -- and boost economic growth in the short run. But over time, a stiff tax hike on these workers could stall productivity and limit the economy's growth.
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