During the heyday of paper assets, stockbrokers regularly lorded over their commodity-dealing brethren. It wasn't personal, mind you, just the nature of the business. Stock jockeys were making commissions hand over fist, leaving commodities...
In February, stock fund investors did a curious thing. Instead of running for the exits as the S&P 500 continued falling, they pumped large sums of new money into U.S. and international stock funds. Are investors getting smarter, buying when the...
Back during the Great Buying Panic of the 1990s, when making money in stocks was as easy as putting in a buy order for QQQ, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was called, The Maestro. Greenspan was considered to be a magician in his nearly 19...
Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...
Economist Paul Zane Pilzer considers himself to be an environmentalist. But he is not your average greenie. Indeed, Pilzer is something of an icononclast: There is no such thing as scarcity of natural resources, he argues. When humans were running...
Best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein explains how heretical, academic research has become investing orthodoxy. And yet, Modern Portfolio Theory is under attack from behavioral finance theorists. Who is right?