Wall Street's week ahead features more March Madness, but not of the NCAA basketball variety that likely kept most of Wall Street entertained all weekend. Rather, our version of March madness is being served up by the Federal Reserve...

Clear as mud. After topping $2 trillion in U.S. assets, the ETF market still remains a mystery to many investors. In a recent survey by Fidelity and BlackRock, less than one-third (32 percent) of individual investors currently own ETFs in thei...

The U.S. Federal Reserve cleared the way for a relief rally in the stock market Wednesday with its Monetary Policy Statement release. Despite removing its cautionary language - namely the word "patient" - it added enough new cautionary discussion...

Most of the major U.S. stock indices hit all-time highs recently. The Dow reached 18,288.63, the S&P 2117.39 - both of them records. But there's one that didn't quite break its high from 15 years ago… the Nasdaq.This leads us to one of...

“Cash-and-carry” provides clues

Six months after Alibaba’s IPO, the shares are down more than 29 percent from their November high.

When a "dovish" Fed speaks, investors bid up equities. Although the Fed removed the word "patient" from its mantra in the latest round of Fed speak and with regard to the FOMC's decision to maintain the current interest...

As investors can hardly assess (let alone avoid) the potential “pitfalls” of currency exposure, they should, instead, embrace the inherent benefits.

The Bull Market turned six last week and what an incredible six years it has been. From the depths of despair in March 2009, the S&P 500 (SPY) has more than tripled in one of the greatest six year bull market runs in history. At an...