Treasurys rise after $20 billion auction
08.10.09
Treasurys held gains Wednesday after the most recent phase of this week's $78 billion offering of U.S. debt received above-average demand.
Gold hits another record
08.10.09
Gold continued to push higher into record territory Wednesday amid concerns about a weak dollar, inflation and technical-based buying by large investment funds.
How to be an emotionless investor
08.10.09
It's one of the truths of mutual fund investing: You buy the manager as much as the prospectus. So it pays to have someone you trust.
Stocks churn as dollar seesaws
08.10.09
Stocks seesawed Wednesday, with blue chips weaker and techs a bit higher as a two-day advance petered out amid a mixed dollar, lower oil prices and some jitters at the start of the quarterly financial reporting period.
Why you should buy stocks now
09.01.09
When new clients come to me, I ask them a few questions about risk. One is "What would you do if the value of your stocks fell by 50%?"
Setting sail for an economic rebound
09.01.09
I took a look at some of the most actively traded stocks Wednesday morning. And the usual suspects were all there. Citigroup. Ford Motor. Intel. DryShips.
The best stocks for 2009
09.01.09
Where's the bottom? It's the question every investor is asking. We wish we could tell you when the stock market will reach that point - we really do. But we have no idea. Nobody does. This much, however, we can say: Don't wait for that perfect moment when the markets sink to their absolute floor. Because by the time you're certain prices have reached that spot, the moment will have passed, and you may have missed a dramatic rebound.
Stock picks from the pros
09.01.09
The stakes are high whenever you invest, but they're extra high when you're managing your money amid a historic financial mess and record volatility. For advice equal to the task - in a setting chosen to inspire thoughts of security - we invited five champion fund managers to sit down inside a massive underground vault that's now part of a restaurant a block from Wall Street: Bob Rodriguez of First Pacific Advisors, who manages the FPA Capital and New Income funds; Susan Byrne, who heads Westwood Holdings Group; Leslie Christian, president and chief investment officer of Portfolio 21 Investments; Tom Forester, manager of the Forester Value fund; and Jeremy Grantham, chairman of asset manager GMO. Fortune's Geoff Colvin led the discussion. Edited excerpts follow; stock prices are as of Dec. 1.
Japan tries to avoid another lost decade
09.01.09
The 1990s are commonly known as Japan's "lost decade." Now, this decade isn't looking too good either.
Government debt prices churn
09.01.09
Treasury prices churned Tuesday as investors weighed a tremendous amount of new debt coming to market with continued concerns about an economy mired in recession.