Bonds

Daily Data Flow: European Crisis Causes S&P 500 to Slip; Apple’s iPhone 5 Misses First Week Sales Goal of 5 Million Units; Munis Outperform U.S. Treasury Bonds; ATM Fees Hit Record High

S&P 500 Has Longest Slump in Seven Weeks on European Crisis  (Bloomberg) The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index...

Daily Data Flow: New iPhone Could Boost U.S. GDP; Watch for Higher Long-Term Yields

New iPhone could boost U.S. GDP by up to 0.5 percent, JP Morgan says (Reuters) Sales of the new...

German Government Debt is Europe’s Surprising Safe-Haven Investment

This week has provided investors with several important developments in Germany that are worth pointing out to show...

Making Money Alert: Is it a Breakout or a Fake Out?

There's been a whole lot of shaking going on in the equity markets through the first half of...

Don’t Listen to the “Chicken Littles” of the Media

We investment analysts are the "Chicken Littles" of media. A single bad day in the market, and we...

Making Money Alert: Can the Global Divergence Last?

Over the past two weeks, the S&P 500 Index has broken below its short-term, 50-day moving average on...

Making Money Alert: A Leap Year of Faith

Today is leap day, the additional calendar marking in February that comes around every four years. So far...

Alert: Holiday Volatility Reigns Supreme

In a year where volatility has ruled the roost, I guess it should come as no surprise that...