Financials Drag Down Large-Cap And Value Funds In December      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - U.S. diversified stock funds on average fell 0.37% in December. They fell 3.08% in the fourth quarter following a 0.93% gain in third quarter, according to Lipper Inc. That left them up 6.32% for the year.
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Investor's Business Daily - Fund managers have to pick stocks, but fund firms have to pick the stock pickers.
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Wall Street was lower at mid-morning on Monday, with Microsoft shares down after a European Union court ruling and investors on guard ahead of earnings from investment banks this week. Light trading activity is expected as investors await the outcome of the Federal Reserve&#39;s policy meeting on Tuesday.
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Investor's Business Daily - As tamer-than-expected inflation and the Democrats' retaking of Congress vied for investor attention in November, U.S. stock mutual funds notched another monthly gain.
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Investor's Business Daily - If bond mutual funds were an ice cream parfait, high-yield funds would be the cherry on top. But top junk-bond managers are changing their diet a bit.
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Investor's Business Daily - The U.S. economy is slowing as the housing and auto sectors slump, even as the jobs market becomes increasingly tight.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Economic Cycle Research Institute&#39;s leading U.S. index edged down to 140.6 in the week ended Sept. 14 after climbing in the prior 2 weeks. The 4-week annualized growth rate ticked up to 0.4% from 0.3%, which was the lowest since last Oct. ECRI says readings would have to fall sharply negative before they&#39;d signal recession.
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Investor's Business Daily - In handicapping the midterm elections, conventional wisdom and the smart money seem to have parted ways in recent weeks.
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Investor's Business Daily - Short exchange traded funds got a small boost this week as the Dow Jones industrial average lost 416 points and the Nasdaq composite dropped 96.66 Tuesday. But that doesn't mean you should necessarily chase them, says ProShares Advisors CIO Bill Seale.
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Private investors have pulled billions of pounds out of some of the UK's best-known mutual funds in recent months, in a sign of jitters about the downturn in markets and the economy.
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Investor's Business Daily - Government efforts to cool soaring Chinese stocks sparked heavy selling in Shanghai on Wednesday. But unlike three months ago, global markets took the drop in stride.
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Investor's Business Daily - Investors using Scottrade for cheap, one-source mutual fund shopping may soon have to start paying a transaction fee.
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Investors may frown as a sluggish holiday season has retailers slashing prices.
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Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association's application index fell 7.6% to 603.8 in the week ended Dec. 21, the lowest since Dec. '06, despite lower borrowing costs. Both home purchase and refi applications fell. Mortgage applications have been especially volatile in recent weeks. Fixed 30-year mortgage rates fell 8 basis points to 6.1%. One-year adjustable rates tumbled 46 basis points to a 1-month low of 6.03%.  U.S. commercial paper issuance grew by $1.2 bil in the week ended Dec. 26 to $1.785 tril, after a big decline in the previous week, the Fed said. But asset-backed paper fell by $15. ...
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Investor's Business Daily - The Richmond Fed's manufacturing index fell to -4 in Dec. from zero in Nov. The shipments index declined 9 points to -10 while new orders sank 5 points to -6. But the factory jobs index rose to 5 from -1. Richmond-area factories were upbeat, but not as much as in Nov.
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Investor's Business Daily - There seems to be a significant slowing in the pace of global economic growth this year, the International Monetary Fund said. The IMF cautioned that restoring world financial markets will be a complex, drawn-out process. The Fed's 75- basis-point 18ate cut on Tue. was "appropriate and helpful," said IMF spokesman Masood Ahmed, who also said the U.S. should apply "targeted and timely" fiscal stimulus.
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Investor's Business Daily - At a time when rapid growth in hedge funds might suggest that their mutual fund counterparts -- long-short funds -- would also prove popular, few investors seem to have much appetite for mutual funds they can sell short.