(Bloomberg View) -- In April 2006, I was starting to worry about what I was seeing in financial markets. The phrase "heavy-metal markets" seemed to describe the paradox of stocks and bonds all rising at the same time, riffing on the joke that goo...
At last week’s baseball game, my friend fretted over the slump in the price of his United States Oil Fund (NYSE Arca: USO) shares. I spent the better part of an inning explaining an optimization of his covered call strategy after he...
(Bloomberg) -- For Kaoru Sekiai, getting steady returns for his pension clients in Japan used to be simple: buy U.S. Treasuries...