Vanguard: Nest Eggs Lack Attention and Diversity
"Investors too often let their retirement nest eggs lie without proper attention, and don’t do enough to diversify their...
Mixed Confidence
A quick post before hitting the street (and musuems and outlet shops and Best Buy and . . . ) Two inopposite data points came out this...
Apprenticed Investor: There Are No Shortcuts
The latest "Apprenticed Investor" column is up: There Are No Shortcuts. Sorry to be the one to deliver the sad news, but...
WSJ: Housing Market Shows Further Signs of Cooling
"We believe the market has peaked." So says Doug Duncan, the Mortgage Bankers Association’s chief economist, referring to...
What Moves Markets?
In Lose the News, we asked: "Have you ever noticed how the stock market reacts differently to the same reported events? Why is it...
Ten Lessons to Be Learned from the Market Decline
Hedge fund manager Doug Kass gives people some needed reminders: 1. Above all, do your own homework! Do not rely on television...
Short Interest Spike Presages Furious Sell-Off and Rally
For nimble traders only: The last time the New York Stock Exchange short interest ratio broke below a key trendline, the U.S....
Uh-Oh: Apple on the Cover of Time
I’ve mentioned the magazine cover indicator several times in the past. I find its utility to be greater when discussing major...
Walk It Off
Back on September 8, we outlined why it would take a few weeks before for the enormity of the Katrina damage could sink into investors’...
Three Questions
In the past, I have called Forbes columnist and money manager Ken Fisher to task for some of his oversimplifications or just wrong...