Whither income-oriented investments or is it wither? Investors living on the proceeds of their investments face hard times, as many retirees are fast discovering, while watching their monthly checks dwindle. Money market yields offer thin fare ...
For those of you still looking for that stock with the potential to double in a short amount of time, I say this: Please re-set your internal calendar. It must be stuck on 1999. For those with a more sensible appetite for risk and return, I have...
The 1906 Monet painting entitled Nympheas was purchased in 1960 at a Sotheby's auction in London for $50,000. That same 35-inch by 35-inch oil on canvas resold at Christie's New York in 1999 for $22.6 million. That's works out to an average annual...
The financial services industry is burdened by paperwork. But stock-jockey brokers should be thanking the Feds in at least one instance: for insider trading data. Insiders company officers, directors, relatives, anyone with access to key company...
So the market has finally remembered it can go up, and it appears that it's also learning how to sustain its rally. The foundation of this economic recovery is that the oversupply of goods and services that has been hobbling the U.S. economy too...
How useful are analysts' recommendations? The argument has been raging for years. There have been numerous academic studies and even actual matches between and real-life stock pickers remember the Wall Street Journal's dartboard contest, in which...
As a financial advisor, it makes sense to help your clients with anything related to their investments. That could include helping them to get a slice of the payout from class actions against companies being sued for crooked accounting and other...
It wasn't that long ago when a client would suggest a $5 stock and a broker would shake his head in disbelief and reply, Why would you want to take a chance on a penny stock? Today, chances are you'd recognize at least a few penny stocks. After...
These days, Anthony Soslow often finds himself facing a problem most reps haven't faced since clients were clamoring for hot IPOs back in the heady years of the last millennium. When Soslow, president of Global Capital Management, a financial...