With thousands of people facing retirement each day, they are challenged with how to manage their income. Investing in bonds and living off income had been the common wisdom.
However, with interest r...
Just three days ago, the $11 billion auction of 10-year TIPS notes by the US Treasury priced with a yield of 0.89 percent, based on a survey of Federal Reserve Banks released by Bloomberg Financial.
T...
During times of inflation, the value of a dollar today is worth more than one in the future. Tuesday is a bit soon, but it illustrates the point. Conversely, when there is deflation the value of somet...
European regulators this week joined the UK, US, and Japanese regulators in an intense examination of possible price-fixing in LIBOR. Several leading financial institutions have been named in a series...
Like so many things in life, investing can be a zero sum game, one person gains from another person’s loss. The net effect is the total money on the table is unchanged. To some extent, recent gains in...
Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange has been light this month, very light. There has not been much trading activity in the traditional equity exchanges, back to pre-crises levels.
Not surpr...
In an effort to reduce the influence of the Apple effect, the NASDAQ OMX Group has announced a ‘Special Rebalance’ to its NASDAQ-100 Index (NDX). The April 5 announcement has sent many investment mana...
There is substantial debate on the projected ending value of the S&P 500 Index for this calendar year, to calculate the possible gains to be made by investing in it. It is a work in progress as the ye...
What had once been a fairly straightforward asset class focused on yields, maturity, and credit standing, global fixed income investing has now become an intense exercise to assess sovereign debts and...
It’s all about jobs. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics for the US Department of Labor issued statistics on the employment situation yesterday. They were encouraging and trending higher. The employmen...
