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How to make portfolio diversification pay off; Commentary: Long-term investors find time is on their side
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Portfolio diversification is fairly straightforward. Different kinds of assets — stocks and bonds, for example; maybe commodities and real estate as well — lower volatility and deliver more consistent returns than ...
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NY Fed Got $3.2 Billion From AIG Bond Sale
WSJ.comNEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York received $3.2 billion from the special entity it created to sell mortgage bonds it acquired in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., according to data released Thursday.
Capital Gains: At What Rate Will Your Sale Be Taxed? Not all of your long-term capital gains are taxed at 15%. No, that would be far too simple.
SmartMoney.comCONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, not all of your long-term capital gains are taxed at 15%. No, that would be far too simple. So in addition to the 15% rate, there are several additional long-term capital-gains rates, which can range from 0% to ...
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Trump, Colony Chosen for Washington Project
WSJ.comThe U.S. General Services Administration chose a proposal from a venture of Donald Trump's hotel company and private-equity investor Colony Capital LLC to redevelop the historic Old Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., into a luxury ...
Energy Pipelines That Pay 6% -- With Tax Breaks; Master limited partnerships are high-maintenance but worth the hassle, writes Jack Hough.
SmartMoney.comA quirky and complex investment class called master limited partnerships has been one of the market's best performers of late. The widely followed Alerian MLP index of 50 energy MLPs returned 14% in 2011, including dividends, versus 2.1% ...
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Investors Put Cash in Mutual Funds
WSJ.comLong-term mutual funds had estimated net inflows of $8 billion in the latest week, as investors continued to add money to bonds and hybrid funds, offsetting withdrawals from equities, according to the Investment Company Institute.
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Not Much in Store for Lower-Quality Malls
Barrons.comCredit Suisse With e-commerce and tepid consumer demand applying pressure on four-wall productivity, we believe further rationalization in the retail sector could be in the offing. The industry is just beginning to address the imbalance ...
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Itchy Investors Ramp Up the Risk; With Rates Staying Low, Returns on Conservative Investments Don't Cut It Anymore for Some
WSJ.comRobert Marcotte can't afford to play it safe anymore. With interest rates likely stuck near zero for nearly three more years, the 61-year-old retired telephone-company manager is about to ramp up his holdings of stocks and municipal bonds, ...
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Two Office REITs Post Higher Earnings
WSJ.comBoston Properties Inc. and SL Green Realty Corp. reported stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, a sign that the nation's largest office landlords have been able to boost revenue despite tepid job growth.
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Starwood Perks Up Loyalty Program
WSJ.comStarwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. is expanding the benefits it offers its most-frequent customers, part of a continuing race by the world's largest hotel brand companies to generate more business from recurring patrons.
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Gold bull methodically takes profits; Commentary: GCRU sticks to disciplined system
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Gold had its usual routs and rallies in 2011, but at least it finished up on the year (again). Gold shares, however, barely did that, breaking whenever the gold bugs were getting hopeful about them. Typically, they ...
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Mailbag
Barrons.comLong Search To the Editor: High praise is due the cover story on the payment of dividends (or the lack thereof) by companies with more than the wherewithal to do so ("In Search of Yield," Jan. 23).
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Blackstone Spies Retail Recovery; Private-Equity Giant's Bet Starts to Look Like a Winner; Vacancy and Lease Rates Show Gains
WSJ.comBlackstone Group LP's $11 billion bet on retail property is showing signs of paying off. As the retail property market struggled over the past year with high vacancies and competition from online shopping, the private-equity giant made a ...
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Scott Black
Barrons.comBarron's 2012 Roundtable Highlight I assume the U.S. economy will grow 2.3% in real terms, so there is no recession. Corporate profits in the U.S. will grow only around 6.5%, but balance sheets will remain solid. Global growth is slowing to ...
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Will Gold-Mining Stocks Finally Hit Paydirt?
Barrons.comAfter five months of choppy declines and arguments by pundits that the so-called gold bubble has burst, the yellow metal just scored a technical breakout to the upside.
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Precious-metals charts look positive; Is a renewed up trend sprouting for gold and silver?
MarketWatchPLAYA DEL REY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — In what has certainly become an environment of constant and steady quantitative easing by central banks around the globe, what might properly be termed, the “Age of QE,” the action in precious metals is ...
Tech Stocks: Safer Than You Think; Hough: Here are four reasons even risk-adverse investors should favor the sector.
SmartMoney.comThe technology sector is known for two things: growth potential and risk. Apple's trouncing of Wall Street earnings forecasts this past week suggests growth is still abundant. Yet Big Tech is looking less risky than it has in the past.
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Barron's 2012 Roundtable, Part Three -- Yielding to Reality
Barrons.comBarron's 2012 Roundtable Part 1 Barron's 2012 Roundtable Part 2 Tireless as well as prescient, Marc Faber has warned Roundtable readers repeatedly that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unnaturally low "as far as the eye can see." ...
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Australian shares close marginally lower
MarketWatchSYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Australian shares closed with slim losses Thursday, after the release of a disappointing jobs report. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index (XJO, AU) pulled back from early gains to end the session down 0.1%, or 3.1 ...
'Safe' Stocks Off to Wobbly Start in 2012; Hough: Consumer staples shares have been stars in recent years. Now they look vulnerable.
SmartMoney.comStock investors are having a mostly happy new year. The S&P 500-stock index returned around 5% through Friday. And yet the slice of the index that represents safety to many investors -- consumer staples -- is down slightly.
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Buy Signals: How to Decipher Stock Buybacks
WSJ.comAmerican companies are gobbling up their own stock. Investors who view that as a buy signal, however, should consider that some repurchases bode much better than others for future stock performance.
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2011's Winners Tank in 2012
WSJ.comLast year's stock-market goats are this year's heroes, and vice versa. But investors betting that the reversal will persist should tread carefully, analysts say.
Big Fracking Deal: The Looming Takeover Boom in Oil; Hough: Investors with an appetite for risk might want to drill deeper into the oil sector to find smaller firms sitting on U.S. oil-shale riches.
SmartMoney.comEnergy profits are booming and Big Oil shares look inexpensive. But investors with an appetite for risk might want to drill deeper into the sector to find smaller firms sitting on U.S. oil-shale riches -- which make tempting takeover ...
2 Ways to Invest in the Housing Market Now; Want to profit off real estate? It might help to know carpentry.
SmartMoney.comEven with the broad housing market still in a funk, some investors are putting cash back into real estate. Play It Safe: Apartment REITs When it comes to safe investing, real estate doesn't exactly pop into mind these days. But the bust that ...
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India Gold Importers Defer Orders After Tax Changes
WSJ.comNEW DELHI -- Gold importers in India are postponing purchases following the government's decision last week to impose import tax at 2% of the value of the bullion, instead of the previous practice of a flat rate on the weight, industry ...
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REITs: Can the Streak Last? They Outpaced the Market in 2011, but Pickings Are Slimmer
WSJ.comAmid last year's flat stock performance, there was at least one bright spot: real estate. No, not shaky U.S. home builders. We mean the stocks of real-estate investment trusts, which manage portfolios of commercial properties such as office ...
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Research Reports
Barrons.comThe research reports excerpted here were issued recently by investment and research firms. Many may be obtained through Thomson Reuters at www.thomson.com/financial or 800-638-8241. Some are available in the company-research area of ...
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Lehman to Block Zell's Deal
WSJ.comWith a deadline looming, the estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is planning this week to use $1.33 billion in cash to buy a 26.5% stake in apartment giant Archstone it doesn't already own, blocking a bid by Sam Zell's Equity ...
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A Play on Singapore's Spending—With a 6% Yield
Barrons.comEmerging Markets It's a good thing Singapore's national pastimes are shopping and eating, since the petite island nation is bursting at its seams with malls. Lately, however, the country's mind-numbing malls seem to be under a bit of a ...
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Club Med Looks West for Fresh Powder
WSJ.comTo cap a companywide renovation that started eight years ago, Club Med has chosen an unlikely destination: the ski slopes of North America. The venerable French resort operator Club Méditerranée—once mostly known for its beachfront huts and ...
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Top Commercial Realty Plays
Barrons.comWhile commercial real-estate stocks seem poised for more gains in 2012, exchange-traded-fund investors should take extra care as the recovery of these ETFs enters its third full year.
The Mystery of Closed-End Fund Discounts; Hough: A pot of stocks and bonds worth $15 a share can sometimes be had for $13. What that means for investors.
SmartMoney.comInvestors are rational agents, economists like to say. In other words, for the most part, we're not nuts. If IBM trades at $190 a share, Uncle Hank isn't going to offer his lot at $150 -- and if he does, it's time to talk to Aunt Lily about ...
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Penney Wise? Not Exactly
Barrons.comThe displays at J.C. Penney's midtown Manhattan store abruptly changed several days ago, the clearance signage replaced by a cryptic photograph of the numbers "2.1.12" soaring above clouds that look like two fat white thumbprints. A ...
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Gold’s happy new year; Commentary: The metal starts strong, and junior golds look hopeful
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Gold is having a happy new year—and experts say the gold shares’ weakness may be deceptive. Gold’s rebound came after a particularly unMerry Christmas. (See Jan. 2 column) But from the Christmas week closing low on ...
How to Make Money Off Analysts' Stock Recommendations; Hough: New research suggests a way for investors to tell which "buys" are worth heeding -- and which ones aren't.
SmartMoney.comIf Wall Street's stock tips were reliable, portfolio selection would be easy. Investors could simply load up on Apple because analysts give it more positive ratings like "buy" and "outperform" than any other stock, according to Thomson ...
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M&L REIT Plans to List in Singapore
WSJ.comSINGAPORE—M&L Real Estate Investment Trust is planning an initial public offering in Singapore early in the second quarter to raise up to US$400 million, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.
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Companies Ratchet Up Borrowing
WSJ.comThe floodgates have opened in the corporate-bond market. Companies have sold $44.2 billion of both high- and low-rated corporate bonds this year, the highest on record for the time period, according to data provider Dealogic.
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China to Encourage More Yuan Listings in Hong Kong
WSJ.comHONG KONG—Chinese securities regulators plan to encourage more mainland companies to seek yuan-denominated listings in Hong Kong, with further revisions to rules governing listings outside the mainland, a senior official said.
Former Gold Fans Seek New Havens; As gold prices fall, many pros are shifting to less-popular investments to protect their clients' portfolios.
SmartMoney.comAs gold prices began to plunge late last year, adviser Ethan Anderson began cutting his clients' gold exposure -- in half. But like so many investors, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based pro is now faced with a new dilemma: Where to put the ...
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Why Europe stocks are too cheap to ignore; Commentary: The Old World is on sale
MarketWatchBOSTON (MarketWatch) — How cheap is Europe these days? Very. Especially for a U.S. investor. Not only have the stocks plummeted over there, but the currency has plummeted too.
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Brooklyn Is Set for a Building Boom
WSJ.comDevelopers are rapidly running out of space to build new projects in Manhattan, but brownstone-dotted Brooklyn could be poised for a building boom, according to a new report.
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Maximum Money: Forecasting the Markets in 2012
WSJ.comRelying on expert forecasts to make your investments is like putting your full faith on the weatherman. They may be right. Or not. Like the start of every other year, experts are already expounding on how various markets will perform this ...
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Hospitality Conglomerate Opts for Open Office Plan
WSJ.comLeading Hotels of the World Ltd. represents thousands of rooms worldwide, but its new headquarters at 485 Lexington Ave. will be virtually room-less.
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Arts Center at WTC Takes Step Forward
WSJ.comA board of directors was named Thursday for a Frank Gehry-designed performing-arts center planned for the World Trade Center site, two days shy of a deadline for the venue to remain eligible for $100 million in funding.
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2011 Roundtable Report Card
Barrons.comMost members of the Barron's Roundtable are active money managers, trading their positions and changing their investment opinions as market developments warrant. For those keeping score, here's how our panelists' 2011 picks and pans ...
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Low-volatility ETFs can carry a high price; Commentary: New funds cut risk — and potential for greater return
MarketWatchNEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The stock market quaked with volatility last year, and some gurus are predicting more rocking and rolling for 2012. Smelling opportunity, exchange-traded fund providers are gearing up to offer new indexes and ...
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Splitting Rental and Retail
WSJ.comA century-old limestone and brick apartment building on East 68th Street and Madison Avenue has been sold at a loss for $170 million to two developers, who plan to split the building in half.
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Altria's Gains Could Go Up in Smoke
WSJ.comAltria Group, parent company of Philip Morris USA and its best-selling Marlboro cigarettes, has more than lived up to its reputation as a defensive investment—providing investors with stable returns and, importantly, a dividend yield of ...
Analysts' Picks No Better Than Throwing Darts; Arends: It's the time of year when the geniuses on Wall Street tell you the best stocks to buy for the year ahead. Don't listen.
SmartMoney.comIt's the time of year when the geniuses on Wall Street tell you the best stocks to buy for the year ahead. So-called "analysts' top picks" are a popular topic on the Street of Shame. For some people it's just a parlor game. Others pay close ...
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American Realty Investors, Life Partners Holdings: Biggest Price Decliners (ARL, LPHI)
WSJ.comAmerican Realty Investors Inc. topped the list of Biggest Percentage Price Decliners among common stocks on the New York Stock Exchange at midday. See the full list .
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The Rally That Wouldn't Die! Treasury Bonds Have Been on a 30-Year Tear. Whether or Not the Party Can Last Is Beside the Point—There Are Far Better Places to Put Your Money
WSJ.comAt least one fear gauge shows that investors were more scared in 2011 than in the dark days of 2008. According to investment-research firm Morningstar, a portfolio of U.S. Treasurys with an average maturity of 20 years—the quintessential ...
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Why the U.S. May Be Your Best Bet; Domestic Markets Have Improving Fundamentals; Plus, 'You Have to Be Pretty Brave to Bottom-Fish Now in Europe'
WSJ.comA new year, an old investor dilemma: Is it better to run with last year's biggest winner even though it has gotten pricier, or to shift money into the losers even though they might have further to fall?
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Frack Attack: How to Play the Next American Oil Boom
WSJ.comEnergy profits are booming and Big Oil shares look inexpensive. But investors with an appetite for risk might want to drill deeper into the sector to find smaller companies sitting on U.S. oil-shale riches—which make tempting takeover ...
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Real-Estate Stocks Recover; Fourth-Quarter Total Return of 15.1% Tops Broader Indexes; Yearly Return Sags
WSJ.comReal-estate stocks posted strong gains in the fourth quarter, a sharp turnaround from a few months ago, when panic about Europe's debt crisis threatened to derail the commercial real-estate recovery.
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Ventas to Acquire Cogdell
WSJ.comVentas Inc., one of the nation's largest health-care landlords, agreed to acquire Cogdell Spencer Inc. in a deal valued at about $217 million.
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Zuccotti Barriers Come Down
WSJ.comHundreds of people streamed freely Tuesday night into Zuccotti Park after the removal of metal barricades erected when the Occupy Wall Street movement was expelled from its encampment there two months ago.
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Morgan Stanley Cuts Metals Price Forecasts
WSJ.comWELLINGTON—Morgan Stanley lowered its 2012 price forecasts for most metals and minerals, citing "uninspiring" prospects and the case for a stronger dollar, despite a slight improvement in prospects for economic growth as reflected in recent ...
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Our Stocks Weathered a Storm
Barrons.comRunning hard to stay in place was what stock investors had to do last year. And that, on average, is what Barrons.com managed to do with the stocks it touted.
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Home Builder Stuck in the Basement
WSJ.comThe nation's housing market has lately been showing signs of life, and investors have bid up home builders' stocks by an average of nearly 50% over the past three months. But in the case of Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV), which is up 20% in ...
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Barron's 2012 Roundtable, Part One -- Listen Up, Class: Here's How to Profit
Barrons.comBarron's 2012 Roundtable Part 2 Barron's 2012 Roundtable Part 3 Inflation. Deflation. Rehypothecation. Bad rap lyrics, or the poetry of finance? You can judge for yourself when you finish this first installment of Barron's 2012 Roundtable, a ...
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Marc Faber
Barrons.comBarron's 2012 Roundtable Highlight Governments around the world will print massively, which is why I agree to some extent with Joe Rosenberg's statement that markets live on bad news. The worse the news gets, the more the U.S. and the ...
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What's the Deal
WSJ.comMovie Stars and Mobsters LaSalle Hotel Properties got more than a 934-room hotel last month when it purchased the Park Central Hotel. It also got a few pieces of the Big Apple's history, some that shined and a few bad spots.
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Goldman's New York Story
WSJ.comSeven years after paying $215 million for Manhattan's Park Central Hotel, a venture of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has sold the 934-room property for $396 million to LaSalle Hotel Properties.
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Build With the Best
Barrons.comHow soon investors forget. A scary convergence of global macro shocks to equity markets in 2011 ignited a small flight to the Olympians of long-term investing: mutual funds that stick to the stocks of high-quality companies.
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Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Year
WSJ.com2011 was a year of surprises. An Arab revolution no one predicted. A downgrade of the U.S.'s formerly pristine debt rating. European debt troubles that threatened the future of the continent's common currency.
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For Bank Stocks, Smaller Is Better in 2012
WSJ.comFor stock investors, banks weren't where the money was in 2011. The KBW Bank Index, which includes 24 U.S. firms, from global giants like Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase to large regional players, plunged 25% in 2011. The broader ...
For 2012, Investing Pros Say Reshuffle the Deck; Gold is out and munis are in when it comes to trendy investment picks, but the larger lesson from a tumultuous year is to stick with a diversified plan.
SmartMoney.comGold is out, munis are in. REITs are trendy, but don't forget to balance out with Steady Eddies like dividend-paying stocks. And, oh yes, if you thought 2011 was full of drama, prepare for even more.
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Cash Exits Mutual Funds
WSJ.comInvestors pulled a net $2.62 billion from long-term mutual funds in the latest week, as withdrawals from equity funds outpaced additions to bond and hybrid funds, according to estimates from the Investment Company Institute.
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Commercial Property Sales Plunge; Despite a 40% Drop in the Fourth Quarter, the Overall Number Nearly Doubled in 2011, to $31.2B
WSJ.comJitters over the European debt crisis and stagnant office rents contributed to a drop of more than 40% in sales volume in Manhattan's commercial real-estate market during the last quarter of 2011, according to a new report.
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A Successful Winter's Eve
WSJ.comMarc Holliday counts friends and colleagues among the many people who have benefitted from treatment at National Jewish Health, a hospital for respiratory diseases in Denver. But it's his mother that he most considered when creating a ...
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S&P 500 Companies' Fourth-Quarter Earnings Guidance
Barrons.comReturn to the Weekday Trader, "A Grim Forecast For Corporate Earnings." Ticker Company Date Guidance Estimate Direction ABT Abbott Labs 10/19 1.44 1.43 ...
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Plots & Ploys
WSJ.comBreaking News From WSJ.com's Developments Blog December Snooze Decembers are typically busy for commercial real-estate investors, who like to get deals wrapped up by year-end for tax and organizational reasons. But this year, there's a little ...
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Casino Debtholders Fight On; Claims in Marriott Furor May Taint Commercial Mortgage-Backed Market
WSJ.comThe commercial real-estate industry has seen more than more than three years of "tranche warfare" among debtholders who hold various degrees of risk on mortgages that were sliced up and sold by Wall Street firms.
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A Market Builds for Single-Family Rentals; Private-Equity Fund GI Partners Is Investing in Waypoint, Which Buys Foreclosed Homes and Then Rents Them Out
WSJ.comA private-equity fund that generated big profits by scooping up empty data centers after the technology-stock bust in 2000 is now making a big bet on foreclosed homes.
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Judge Denies Lehman Bid to Halt Archstone Sale to Zell
WSJ.comNEW YORK—A judge on Friday said Bank of America Corp. and Barclays PLC can move forward with a $1.33 billion sale of half their stake in the Archstone apartment company to Sam Zell's Equity Residential, calling Archstone co-owner Lehman ...
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Big Midtown Rezoning Eyed; Skyline Could Change Under Plan Being Mulled to Spur Investment Around Grand Central Terminal
WSJ.comNew York City officials are weighing an ambitious plan aimed at remaking a large swath of the Midtown skyline by encouraging building owners to demolish aging structures and replace them with new office towers, according to people familiar ...
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Investors Sour on Subprime Bonds; Money Managers Retreat From Market as Prices Decline and Upside Is Limited; 'Buy-and-Hold' Mentality
WSJ.comAfter flickering to life early in 2011, the market for subprime- and other risky residential-mortgage bonds has returned to its comatose state. And many investors believe a revival could be years away.
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A Messy Battle for Budget Beds
WSJ.comPrivate-equity investor Colony Capital LLC has scored a victory in what is emerging as a messy legal tug of war over the Jameson Inn chain of 103 budget hotels.
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Exchange-Traded Funds; Is the Golden Age Ending? Bullion prices are off their highs, and ETFs may speed the decline
WSJ.comThe emergence of exchange-traded funds that hold gold bullion, led by the giant SPDR Gold Shares, may accentuate the decline in the metal's price just as it did the recent boom.
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REIT Firms Set for Acquisitions
WSJ.comReal-estate investment trusts raised a record-breaking amount of equity in 2011, which analysts believe will be used to pursue acquisitions.
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An Eye for Real Estate
Barrons.comPortfolio manager Jon Cheigh takes some pride in the detective work Cohen & Steers Realty Shares (CSRSX) does researching the REITs it invests in. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, Cheigh posed as an apartment hunter so he could get a ...
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Lawmakers Lose in Markets; Analysis Shows That Some Members of Congress Should Elect Not to Trade
WSJ.comAmid the controversy about stock trading on Capitol Hill, one element has largely been overlooked: Some members of Congress aren't particularly good at it.
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Bond Bets Paid Off
WSJ.comLast year saw better returns for bonds than for stocks on average—and that shaped the comparative performance of target-date funds for retirement.
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General Growth Starts Year With a Gamble; Market Will Soon Weigh In on CEO Mathrani's Plan to Separate Strong and Weak Malls; Brookfield to Be a Backstop
WSJ.comCHICAGO—After a tumultuous first year as chief executive of General Growth Properties Inc., Sandeep Mathrani is about to make perhaps his boldest move yet: The shopping-mall owner later this month is set to spin off 30 of its weaker malls ...
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Storage REITs Enjoy a Boom
WSJ.comOne of real estate's least-exciting businesses—warehouses that allow people to store their unused sofas, lamps and other household goods—have become a hit with investors.
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Plots & Ploys
WSJ.comBreaking News From WSJ.com's Developments Blog Private Equity Checks In At Jameson Inn Chain Colony Capital LLC is going budget. The California-based private equity firm on Monday won a hard-fought battle among creditors for control of the ...
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Building a Trend: Where Wages Will Grow
Barrons.comReview | Dates to Watch For | Follow-Up | U.S. Economic Calendar | Consensus Estimates | Coming Earnings | Coming U.S. Auctions They may have suffered mightily through the housing bubble and its messy bursting, but home building and related ...
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What is gold telling us? The last time gold dropped below its 200-day moving average was August 2008
MarketWatchPLAYA DEL REY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — As the New Year begins, a new round of QE is upon us – “Euro-QE” to be specific. Investors have become conditioned to the effects of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing actions in 2009 up to ...
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Year Is Marked by Big Start, Shaky Finish; Highlights Include Battle for Archstone, Brookfield's 'Occupy' Dilemma, Blackstone's Bargains; Funding Woes Loom
WSJ.comFor the commercial real-estate market, 2011 was a year that began with a boom and ended with a question mark. After two years in the doldrums, commercial real estate came to life in the first half of 2011. Values rose in top markets, deal ...
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U.K. REIT Challenge for 2012: Debt
WSJ.comU.K. real-estate investment trusts are in a bullish mood as they emerge from the biggest slowdown in the U.K.'s property market in decades. They have deleveraged by selling assets and have big development pipelines.
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What's The Deal
WSJ.comAccident Aftermath The office building at 285 Madison Ave. had an uncertain future even before last week's tragic elevator accident in which an executive working in the building at Young & Rubicam was killed.
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Safe at Home? Not in a 401(k)
WSJ.comHow will 401(k) investors react to the latest blast of volatility in the markets? If the recent past is any guide, they will retreat into the apparent safety of cash, Treasury bonds and "stable value" mutual funds.
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Why Munis Are Worth a Look
WSJ.comMunicipal bonds faced two key tests this past week—and came out looking sturdy. The first was a spike in Italian government bond yields that culminated Wednesday with a global flight from risky assets. Muni prices rose, a sign that investors ...
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What's Next? The Outlook for 2012; Four advisers talk about which financial sectors have the most promise, and which have the most peril
WSJ.comWild swings—sometimes 3% or 4% a day—have become a regular occurrence in the financial markets. But just because it's routine doesn't mean it's any less unsettling.
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American Realty Investors, China Medical Technologies: Biggest Price Decliners (ARL, CMED)
WSJ.comAmerican Realty Investors Inc. topped the list of Biggest Percentage Price Decliners among common stocks on the New York Stock Exchange at the close. See the full list .
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Mile-High Aspirations
WSJ.comAn investment group led by Brookfield Office Properties Inc. is making a big bet on the energy sector by buying the second-tallest office building in Denver, which is about to become 70% vacant.
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Stocks in the Spotlight Friday
Barrons.comDuPont (DD) Shares of the chemicals giant tumbled 3.2% after DuPont lowered 2011 earnings-per-share guidance. Writing in Barrons.com, Dimitra DeFotis noted, "More details will emerge at next week's meetings, and a further selloff may make ...
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The stock market’s big lie revealed; Commentary: Private-equity companies outperform the market
MarketWatchBOSTON (MarketWatch) — Millions of people still put their faith in the stock market. Even after the events of the past dozen years people still hold trillions of dollars in equities and equity mutual funds in their personal accounts and ...
Hidden in Your Value Fund: Bank Stocks; Arends: Financial stocks can make a value mutual fund uncomfortably volatile.
SmartMoney.comAunt Sally has a problem. We all do, really, but especially Aunt Sally. Where is she supposed to put her savings? Interest rates on certificates of deposit are pitiful. Treasury bonds are little better: A five-year Treasury pays 1 percent, ...
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Police Clear Zuccotti Park; Police and sanitation workers swept in and cleared out the tents during an unannounced raid on the Occupy Wall Street encampment, arresting 70 protesters. (More: Police Clear Zuccotti Park)
WSJ.comWorkers cleaned up what was left of the debris after Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday. A woman looked at police officers in riot gear.
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How to Find a Good Financial Adviser
Ask the right questions before you hand over your money
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How to Create an Investment Portfolio
A balanced portfolio can have a bigger impact on long-term performance than individual stock picking
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How to Invest for Retirement
Investing for retirement is more complicated than opening an IRA or maxing out your 401(k)
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How to Choose a Stock Mutual Fund
When choosing a stock mutual fund, consider performance, manager track record and cost before investing.
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How to Invest in a CD
Even in times of interest rate uncertainty, a certificate of deposit (CD) can still be part of your cash strategy.
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Small print has become a giant menace, costing consumers $250 billion a year. New ways to avoid the traps.
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For the past five years, these funds have excelled. Can they do it for the next five?
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A little light reading while you're on hold.