[TS] High & Low Finance: Should U.S. Markets Be Wide Open?
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Looser regulation abroad poses risks to American investors while leaving U.S. stock markets at a new competitive disadvantage.
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Back and forth. Back. And forth. No, this isn't baseline tennis. It's the Dow Jones industrial average, which has generally been stuck in a trading range--9000 to 10,500--for the past five years. "While the Fed is as accommodative as it's been since the late 1970s," says Brian Wesbury, chief economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens &amp; Thompson, "potential inflation could really knock earnings growth down to single digits." The market might get stuck in a trading range for a few years more.
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For generations, wealthy investors could rely on Wall Street to come up with products and services geared to meet their financial needs. Average Americans weren&#146;t so lucky. To much of Main Street, the financial world has long been a bewildering place with an unintelligible language of symbols, slogans, and acronyms. This wasn&#146;t a problem years ago because employers generally paid ...
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Will it be the same as last year's top market?
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Are these low-priced stocks cheap for a reason, or overlooked opportunities?
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Buy low, sell high? Or buy "no," sell low?
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Sometimes the market overreacts to marginal news, good or bad.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- If you&#39;re a money manager, there&#39;s a lesson to be learned from a scenario unreeled by the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
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NEW YORK -- The U.S. stock market has rarely looked more attractive -- at least according to one important measure.
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Did you see Alan Greenspan on 60 Minutes tonight?  What a revelation, one of the most powerful political and economic forces, but until now, basically silent. There were so many interesting things in the interview, but one of them left me with an urgent action item. Lesley Stahl, the interviewer, asked what currency he got the advance on his book in? He said it didn't matter, because he could convert to whatever currency he wanted, begging the question. She pressed, and he volunteered that the best choice is to be diversified. Which of course is a conclusion every money manager would reach on their own, it's just like stocks and bonds, you never want to have all your eggs in one basket, the best strategy is to be diversified.  I've wanted to be diversified in currency for quite some time, but have found it's not so easy. I have an investment account and a checking account, both are in US dollars, and neither offers the option of anything other than that. I just spent a couple of hours with Google trying to figure out where I could open an account that would allow me to keep cash in euros, yen, yuan, dollars (Canadian, US, Australian or New Zealand), pounds, or... ? I found that I could become a currency trader, which is absolutely not what I want. What I'd like is something like a mutual fund for currency. Or failing that, a certificate of deposit that allowed me to specify what currency it would be in.  So I thought I'd ask the smartest people I know, the readers of this blog. Do you keep your savings in more than one currency? Is there an online bank that does this well, one that a US citizen can use (that is, it sends 1099's to the IRS). Any ideas would be much appreciated.
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NEW YORK -- With the stock market having jitters after a strong run-up in the past year, some investors might want something more low-key.
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Say this for money -- it can make a great investment. That thought struck me, not for the first time, as I glanced recently over a Bloomberg table of the best-performing US stock mutual funds during the past 10 years. Four of the top 12 in this otherwise heterogeneous list specialized in the financial industries.
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The U.S. economy may be on decent footing, but that might not be enough to save your U.S. portfolio.
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Is it time to up your exposure to foreign stocks?
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What should an individual investor do when the domestic and foreign stock markets are shaky? One adviser says: Donât try anything fancy.
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What should an invididual investor when the domestic and foreign stock markets are shaky? One adviser says: Donât try anything fancy.
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Futures point to lower open for US markets as investors look to catch their breath. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Stocks looked to open lower Friday as investors appeared ready to consolidate the gains of the past three weeks.