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简体中文 This article is part of a series on Trading Today’s Market. As the historic market collapse felled many investors, a handful set themselves apart by scoring big profits. Now, several of these money managers expect more bad times ahead, including struggles for consumers, limp earnings and a possible surge of inflation. They also see pockets [...]
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A Taste for Risk — Again
Small investors, afraid of being left behind in a big rally, are piling into mutual funds that invest in emerging markets, junk bonds and volatile energy businesses. Itâs amazing the difference a rally can make in investorsâ appetite for risk. A few months ago, mutual-fund investors were yanking money out of stocks and high-quality corporate-bond [...]
How Not to Get Laid Off
Managing your career: Ariane de Bonvoisin and John Kilcullen identify 10 skills you need to survive the next round of layoffs at your job What’s triggering fears and sleepless nights for many of us about the unemployment abyss is not the job-loss stats themselves, but the depth of the cuts—and the qualifications of some of [...]
Common Questions About Currency Trading
Although forex is the largest financial market in the world, it is relatively unfamiliar terrain to retail traders. Until the popularization of internet trading a few years ago, FX was primarily the domain of large financial institutions, multinational corporations and secretive hedge funds. But times have changed, and individual investors are hungry for information on [...]
For Older Investors, Old Rules May Not Apply
The stock market’s damage has already been done. And if you’re one of those people near or already in retirement, you already know you’re going to have to work longer, save more or spend less. But what should you do right now with the money you have left? Should you wade back into the stock [...]
Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street about Subprime Mortgage Mess
Thank you, fellow taxpayers, for your generous contributions to the Angelo Mozilo defense fund. Bank of America(BAC Quote) confirmed on Tuesday it is covering the legal fees for the former Countrywide CEO who has been charged with securities fraud and insider trading. BofA, America’s biggest bank, says it is obligated to shell out for Mozilo’s [...]
Ten big banks get OK to repay $68B in bailout money
WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department has approved 10 of the nation’s largest banks to repay $68 billion in government bailout money. The department on Tuesday said the banks, which were not named, will be allowed to repay the money they received from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program created by Congress last October at [...]
Credit-Card Traps You Still Need to Watch For
It’s being touted as a big win for consumers â but the new credit card legislation that President Obama signed into law Friday hardly means that cardholders can start swiping that plastic worry-free. In fact, as the new rules kick in (most will go into effect nine months after the president signs the bill, while others [...]
With market rally on hold, investors likely to get few signals this week about the economy
The stock market has run out of reasons to rally, at least for now. After a two-month surge that saw the Dow Jones industrials average soar 31 percent and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index shoot up 37 percent, investors gave up some of those gains last week. As the new week begins, there doesn’t [...]
Banking Stocks – Is It Too Late to Buy?
Banking Stocks â Is It Too Late to Buy? I wrote a posting on May 3rd, 2009 title âWill Stocks Market Rebound Soon?â? And the answer surely it did for the past one week where Dow Jones rose more than 200 points, Citigroup rose to $4.02 from $3.14 (28% higher) and Bank of America rose [...]
