BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Given what’s likely to happen to interest rates in the coming months and years, now might be the perfect time to use a bond ladder for your portfolio.
Ilene Davis owns Financial Independence Services in Cocoa, Fla. By law, you have just 60 days to repay any loan you take out from your IRA. And you're only allowed one withdrawal per year, per IRA. I've found that 60 days sometimes isn't ...
By Brad Frischkorn Tokyo stocks posted their biggest percentage loss of 2012 Monday, as rekindled fears of stagnating global economic growth sent the yen higher, leading to a broad market selloff led by currency and growth-sensitive shares ...
KABUL—As the U.S.-led military commitment winds down, one business is booming in Afghanistan: the construction of heavily fortified compounds where foreigners can take shelter.
Four account representatives for a defunct Long Island investment firm have been charged with helping carry out a $400 million Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Wednesday.
Dodge & Cox, the well-regarded asset manager founded in 1930, likes to rely on its own judgment, whether it's conducting investment research for itself, nurturing homegrown portfolio-management talent, or remaining an independent entity ...
We remember Theodore Dreiser mainly for his deeply felt tales of have-nots who yearn for much more than the world gives them. In "An American Tragedy," his 1925 masterpiece, a young man's longing for money and social standing leads him to ...
A fundamental tenet of financial advice is to settle on long-term goals, then pick an asset-allocation strategy and stick with it. A corollary is that trading in and out of positions in response to daily market gyrations is almost ...
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin issued a letter explaining the new stock split today: 2012 Founders' Letter Introduction Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed ...
"In many ways, the iPad is reinventing portable computing and outstripping the wildest predictions," Apple chief Timothy D. Cook said last week while unveiling the tablet computer's latest upgrade. A bit of hyperbole? Yes, ...
A funny thing happened on the way to turning volatility from a tradable statistic into an asset class: One of this fast-growing niche's builders flinched, suspending creation of new units of a popular leveraged product for a month.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Now that a privately built capsule has completed its historic hook-up with the International Space Station, investors may want to tread lightly before boldly going where few have gone before.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Investors looking to the bond market to diversify are struggling against unusually low interest rates — and that’s tempting some to take on more risk than they should.
The VelocityShares 2x Long VIX Short Term Exchange note had assets of about $700 million. In some editions Thursday, a Money & Investing article on volatile trading in the note incorrectly gave the amount as $700 billion.
More than 50 years of experience in the investment arena give this canny pro the ability to identify big market trends and the companies that will reap the most rewards from those trends. The nimble Joseph McNay also knows when to put the ...