Emerging markets (EM) have fallen out of favor; long forgotten is the exciting heyday of BRIC investing, and tales of who would be the world's next superpower. To the contrary, we have convinced ourselves that the U.S. has decoupled from the...
Looking for the bellwether of the U.S. economy? Think consumer goods stocks. First, there are staples. These are outfits that make the stuff people constantly want, companies like Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG) or Kimberly Clark (NYSE: KMB), and th...
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Simple investing comes down to the fact that shareholders invest in companies with decent prospects for economic return.
Financial advisors’ confidence in both the economy and the markets was largely unchanged in October as advisors awaited the expected end of quantitative easing and increased volatility in the equity markets.
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Ameriprise Financial (NYSE: AMP) reported stong growth in the third quarter driven by the advice, wealth management and asset management segments, which account for an increasing portion of its overall business; firm-wide operating net revenue was...
We’re coming out of a 30-year bull market in bonds, and just experienced a 10 percent stock market correction. But Bob Doll, Nuveen Asset Management’s chief equity strategist, believes there are more reasons to be confident this year...
The TIP/IEF spread is collapsing. Will it stop?
(Reuters) - The stock-heavy American Funds family is on track to report its first year without big investor withdrawals since 2008, a top company executive said as improved performance helped bring money to its actively managed products...
