Alrighty, equities are back, touching numbers not seen since, their 2008 highs. Small caps (Russell 2000 up by, as the WSJ aptly put it, an "eye--popping" 36% since October) are on a run and no one cares. Midcaps are tearing it up, followed by the...
Aren't you glad to be a retail financial advisor who eats what he kills? Bankers are not so lucky (more layoffs to come). My inbox is full of bad news --- oh, and some positive news. Let's see, the New York Post, which covers parochial issues ...
Brad Hintz, of Bernstein Research, says Ameritrade and Schwab will need a while before their businesses really get cranking: "As we have stated in our launch piece on the industry, the upturn in the capital markets cycle begins with increased...
Yesterday, I posted a story about the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) market sentiment indicator turned bullish. And when that happens, it often is a contrarian signal, meaning the market may take a dive. I noted that when the...
I was reading Michael Santoli's column in ...
Last week I attended the TD Ameritrade Institutional Annual Conference and was treated to a rousing, animated lecture by Prof. Jeremy Siegel of Wharton and WisdomTree ETF family. Boy, was he bullish. It was if it were a pep rally for stocks...
