If there's one lesson to be learned from this year's market, it's this: Be prepared for a visit from Mr. Volatility. Recently Greece, and now Italy, have shelled domestic investors with V-bombs, making rubble out of many portfolios. With Portugal...
Before I delve into the accounting loopholes used to prop 3rd-quarter earnings, I will start with pointing out the intimidating amount of choice for ETFs in the financial sector.
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The eastern U.S. has seen its share of natural disasters lately, between the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that hit Virginia on Aug. 23, and Hurricane Irene, which made landfall on Aug. 24. But according to Eric Zoldan, senior vice president of...
Tom Paine should have been a financial advisor. Attempting to bolster the spirits of Continentals after a retreat from a superior British force in the winter of 1776, Paine wrote, The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we...
S&P’s downgrade isn’t the problem, say wealth management and family office executives; it’s worse than that. The problem is the nations’ underlying structure of political, economic and fiscal problems—they are a legitimate cause for long-term...
“The markets are oversold and have dropped too far, too fast, especially in light of fairly solid fundamentals,” said Terry Morris, senior equity manager at National Penn Investors Trust Company, a division of National Penn Wealth...
