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Anthony Valeri
The Caribbean island received cold news last week when both S&P and Moody's downgraded Puerto Rico to high-yield or "junk" territory.
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Dawn Bennett
Americans are earning less and have less money to spend.
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Gary Stroik
Now is the time to take these steps with clients so that when the stock market corrects, they won't get a painful reminder of what their risk profile really is.
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Jack Rivkin
There's finally some recognition that the Federal Reserve's actions really did produce some stimulus. This could lead to self-sustaining growth in the US economy in 2014.
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Wes Sparks
Given the prospect of rising U.S. Treasury yields in the coming year, high-yield bonds will produce positive returns in 2014 but won't match their performance in 2013.
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Bradford A. Evans
When building or rebalancing the “value” slice of portfolios, advisors may start where most valuation-conscious investors begin: the price/earnings ratio.
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Dawn Bennett
The markets in this upside down U.S. economy continue to go up while the fundamentals continue to get worse.
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Christopher J. Molumphy
We could finally see better U.S. economic growth in 2014 because of the diminishing impact of last year's higher taxes and reduced government spending, according to Christopher J...
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Steve Osterink, Jr.
Currency movements often are an overlooked component of return, says Steve Osterink Jr., chief investment officer for asset manager Advisory Alpha.
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Dr. Ed Yardeni
As of Q3, the market capitalization of equities was 14.7 times corporate profits, not much higher than the average since 1960.
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Doug Ramsey
QE’s effect on the stock market is anything other than substantial...
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Dawn Bennett
What happened to the good old days when good news was good for the financial markets and bad news was bad for it?
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Dr. Ed Yardeni
The information technology industry is one of the most competitive in the world. Creative destruction is its modus operandi.
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Dawn Bennett
The latest American Association of Individual Investors survey showed the lowest amount of pessimism about the U.S...
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William Housey
In a persistently low interest rate environment, such as we have been experiencing, investors have had few options on the fixed income side of their portfolios to generate a high level of income...
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Craig French
The best approach to investing is designed to get clients to their investment goal primarily by attempting to avoid permanent and unacceptable losses of capital.
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Dawn Bennett
The real story is the equity bubble that is being fueled by excessive liquidity in the economy and declining liquidity in the financial markets.
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Robert A. DiMella
Have muni bonds, the darlings of income-seeking investors these last couple of years, gone to the dogs?
