Category: Finance

A reader writes, asking: “Do you think that a financial advisor should be a fiduciary? I’ve seen that discussed elsewhere, but never on your blog.” Well, that depends on exactly what you mean. If you’re in the market for a financial advisor, and you’re wondering …

4 Global Mutual Funds to Outperform PeersZacks.comThe key benefit that global mutual funds provides is diversification since they invest in overseas markets while also holding domestic equities. Thus, they make good additions to a portfolio weighted in favor of domestic investments. The tepid economic …Sentry Investments and Sun Life Global…

Online shopping club Jet.com has been hyped as “part Costco, part mall, and all anti-Amazon” by Businessweek. It’s not even live yet, but it will be like Costco in that Jet plans to make their profit only from membership fees and make no money on actually …

Price trends for ETFs covering oil, commodities and lumber are evidence that the global economy is slowing, writes Dave Fry.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday’s session are Google Inc., and Barnes and Noble Inc.

The bull market in stocks turns 6 years old in March. Investors in these funds made a lot of money.

A late day rally helped kick the month of February off with solid gains across the board.  Led by energy the S&P 500 closed higher by 1.3{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540}.  The Dow Jones Industrial average followed up with a gain of 1.14{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540}.  Lagging the session was the NASDAQ and Russell 2000.  Economic data was …

The first quarterly earnings reports since the collapse of oil prices are in and the numbers show a significant deterioration in profits for the oil majors. Royal Dutch Shell went first on January 29, revealing a big jump from the same quarter a year ago, but down from the third quarter …

As global bond yields plumb new depths, an unprecedented experiment in monetary policy is underway in two small countries in Europe. By pushing policy interest rates more deeply into negative territory than ever seen before, the Swiss and Danish central banks are testing where the effective lower bound on interest …

CFTC probes how UK group booked pipelines to ship oil from Canada

UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: From the archives Rubric: Why mortgage subsidies are a bad idea IN THIS week’s print edition, we explore how mortgage subsidies have encouraged banks to lend more to homeowners and less to firms, with pernicious economic consequences. The Economist has long been a …

Specializing is crucial to success in a business world where there are always many companies that do what you do.

A weekly opening range break put long-scalps in play ahead of key event risk later this week. Here are the updated targets & invalidation levels.

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