Market growth has gotten ahead of economic growth, and that will likely mean more episodic bouts of volatility in 2015, like we saw in October, said BlackRock’s Global Chief Investment Strategist Russ Koesterich. Higher valuations and...

Do those ‘in the know’ really know?

Bill Gross' behavior during his appearance at the Morningstar conference concerned PIMCO executives. Much has been written about Bill Gross and his departure from the firm he founded 40 years ago. Now, Bloomberg does a deep dive into the dra...

U.S. equities capped off the holiday-shortened trading week with a sixth consecutive week of gains. The S&P 500 Index advanced 0.2%, with the consumer discretionary sector leading the way and energy lagging.1 The main economic story last week was...

Confidence in the economy improved 3.7 percent

Click to Enlarge Go big on health care and short on energy stocks, according to the latest iBillionaire Index. Comprised of 30 U.S. large-cap equities, the index tracks the portfolios of billionaire investors who have made their money throug...

Harvard University might not be the top business school in the United States according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek's latest rankings, but it still remains atop the WealthX list of business schools that have the most billionaire alumni. Harvard ha...

Emerging markets (EM) have fallen out of favor; long forgotten is the exciting heyday of BRIC investing, and tales of who would be the world's next superpower. To the contrary, we have convinced ourselves that the U.S. has decoupled from the...

Looking for the bellwether of the U.S. economy? Think consumer goods stocks. First, there are staples. These are outfits that make the stuff people constantly want, companies like Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG) or Kimberly Clark (NYSE:  KMB), and th...