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By Sarah Pringle, Bloomberg |
January 22, 2013
U.S. stocks rose, following five-year highs for the benchmark indexes last week, after better-than-forecast earnings from companies including Travelers Cos. and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
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By Canaccord Genuity Morning Coffee |
January 8, 2013
The "Dogs of the Dow" strategy underperformed in 2012, delivering gains of 9.6% (including dividends). Excluding dividends, the strategy delivered returns of 5.7%.
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By Inyoung Hwang, Bloomberg |
January 4, 2013
Most U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index poised for its biggest weekly rally in 13 months, after data showed employers added workers in December
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By Alanna Byrne |
January 2, 2013
Mexico and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. saw the biggest changes in this week's Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) ranking of the size of sovereign and corporate credit default swaps.
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By Nina Mehta, Rita Nazareth and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
October 19, 2012
A quarter century after the worst one-day stock crash in history, measures to prevent a repeat are failing to keep investors from losing confidence in the market.
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By Andrew Rummer and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
October 16, 2012
Global stocks rose the most in a month amid better-than-forecast U.S. earnings and industrial production, while the euro and Spanish bonds gained as two German lawmakers said the country is open to Spain seeking a precautionary credit line.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Bloomberg |
October 16, 2012
Industrial production in the U.S. rose more than forecast in September, partially reversing the prior month’s slump, indicating manufacturers are regaining their footing.
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By Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg |
August 15, 2012
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. added a stake in National Oilwell Varco Inc. in the second quarter as billionaire Chairman Warren Buffett pared investments in consumer-products stocks including Procter & Gamble Co.
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By Canaccord Genuity Morning Coffee |
July 24, 2012
So far in 2012, the Dogs outperformed the DJIA by a wide margin. Not including dividends, the strategy returned 8.4%, compared to a 5.0% increase for all DJIA components.
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By Lisa Abramowicz and Dawn Kopecki, Bloomberg |
May 21, 2012
Irvin Goldman, who oversaw risks in the JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit that suffered more than $2 billion in trading losses, was fired by another Wall Street firm in 2007 for money-losing bets that prompted a regulatory sanction at the firm, Cantor Fitzgerald LP, three people with direct knowledge of...
