The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by behavioral economist Robert Shiller, efficient market proponent Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, who occupies a sort of philosophical middle ground. The Nobel committee sent a strong...
2013 has been quite a year for the bulls. The markets shrugged off bad news, such as potential military action in Syria, the slowing of the Chinese economy, and the recent government shutdown. So far this year, the S&P 500 is up 26 percent. But a...
Inverse funds usually underperform shorting the underlying asset, but they can play a role in some accounts if you are willing to rebalance frequently.
Target-date retirement funds have attracted a flood of money. With 401(k) savers relentlessly investing, the funds have grown from $71 billion in assets in 2005 to more than $500 billion today. Now that millions of investors are betting on the re...
The market is clearly wary of the once-popular chipmaker. Over the past year, Intel (INTC) has significantly lagged the NASDAQ composite Index and has one of the highest short ratios of any company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Of the 44...