The usual tornado of fraud continues to whirl around the country, seizing investors and carrying off their hard-earned dough to somewhere other than Iowa — perhaps an offshore bank account.
It’s not often that John Paulson, hedge fund manager extraordinaire, publicly voices his market insights. But when he does, he has a tendency to induce rigorous head-scratching perplexity throughout Wall Street.
Gold’s ninth record in two weeks has left market observers, traders and economists all scrambling to explain why the yellow metal is shooting straight up at the same time U.S. Treasuries are doing the same thing.
It is becoming more and more nerve-wracking to know what “safe” really means these days as fixed-income returns in anything remotely safe continue to wallow. Worries are hitting big players and retail buyers alike. The Motley Fool notes that Morningstar has lowered ratings of many bond mutual funds, even as investors terrified of stocks cram [...]
The future described in the film “The Terminator” was pretty bleak, but it may have overstated what the machines would have to do to make human society grind to a halt. Some folks are thinking the algo-bots may take over just by thrashing markets until humans go home broke and bleary-eyed. That may seem far-fetched, [...]
No man’s life story epitomizes the proverbial rags-to-riches tale quite like that of financial icon Chris Gardner. The inspiration behind an autobiographical bestseller and the 2006 major motion picture, “The Pursuit of Happyness,” [...]
Paul Krugman is like the Carrot Top of economists—everyone hates him, but for different reasons.
Markets are rising, but apples are failing. Gold is up, housing is down. The world is topsy turvey as usual, but those seeking to maintain an even keel will want to look at these developments in trading and trading action. InvestorPlace looks at the new weekly CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) options. This is a good [...]
While the Volcker Rule is driving hiring efforts in some trading areas, a more chaotic picture is now emerging elsewhere as the vagaries of the markets bring boon times to some and pink slips to others.
How rich is rich? Really, a lot of folks have a relative view.
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