June 23, 2011
Interest rates can turn quickly, as the Greek government learned when its 10-year bond soared more than 9 percentage points in the past year on default worries. Such ...
June 9, 2011
(Corrects Morningstar data in seventh paragraph.) Lots of investors say they adopt a long view, usually three to five years, when it comes to a particular investment. ...
May 15, 2011
(Changes percentages in twelfth paragraph.) The search for yield is driving investors toward stocks that pay dividends—and some of the most generous yields are in ...
April 18, 2011
Investing in small-cap stocks is a classic way to try to profit from the early stages of an economic recovery. The reasoning is simple: Small-caps tend to be more ...
April 7, 2011
(Revises energy weight to 23 percent in fifth paragraph.) As inflation expectations climb, many investors are looking to buttress portfolios with assets that can hedge...
March 17, 2011
The Treasury bond bears are out and about—and getting bolder. On Mar. 9, Pacific Investment Management's Bill Gross announced that his $237 billion Total Return Fund, ...
March 1, 2011
Fear of oil supply disruption has pushed crude prices above $100 a barrel. But the bigger concern for economists—and for stock market investors—is how much and how ...
February 21, 2011
(Corrects the identification of Scott O'Neil in the fifth paragraph.) Violence in the streets of Libya on Feb. 22 seemed to do something that all the previous Mideast ...
February 3, 2011
Precious metals brought big profits to investors in 2010, placing portfolios that focus on silver and gold on top of Bloomberg Rankings' list of top-performing mutual ...
January 12, 2011
Investors in health-care stocks have reason to feel ill: In 2010 the Standard & Poor's North American Health-Care Index had the smallest gain among the seven North ...