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Gross Doubts 2% Growth Rate
Billionaire Bill Gross says that the 10-year Treasury yield moving above 2.6% is a more important event than the Dow hitting the 20,000 milestone, according to a recent Investment News…
Stocks that Could Benefit from the High Price of Raising Kids
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that married, middle-income parents will spend $233,610 to raise a child born in 2015 from infancy to adulthood, a figure…
Bob Doll's 10 Predictions for 2017
Nuveen Asset Management’s Bob Doll shared his ten predictions for the coming year in Business Wire: Predictions for 2017 U.S. and global economic growth improves modestly and dollar strengthens (and…
Ritholtz on the Foibles of Forecasting
Barry Ritholtz, columnist and founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management, offers insights on the “problems and investing risks of forecasting” in a recent Bloomberg View. He explains that, because people dislike…
Three Picks that Benjamin Graham Would Approve
The difference between a company’s actual value (net working capital minus debt) and the value at which its shares sell in the market describes what Benjamin Graham called the “margin…
Thomas Lee Expects Market Dip in 2017
Managing partner and co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, Thomas Lee, has changed his typically rosy tune about the direction the market will take in the year ahead, according to a…
Zweig Says Fees Should be Linked to Performance
The practice by many fund managers of charging flat fees to clients regardless of their performance isn’t fair to investors, says Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal. The tides…
Hulbert: Don't Chase the Winners
At a time when investors are inundated with the “best of” performance rankings for 2016, a recent MarketWatch article by Mark Hulbert advises against chasing the winners. The best thing…
Jim Paulsen Sits Between Bull and Bear
Where the market is headed, says Wells Capital Management’s chief strategist, is more like a “bunny” market than a bear or bull. In last week’s Barron’s, Jim Paulsen explains that…