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Market Wrap: Stocks Gain as Investors Eye Rate Hike Delay

February 23, 2016

Mark Lennihan/AP NEW YORK -- U.S. stocks jumped Monday, with the S&P 500 rising for the fifth day in a row, as rising oil prices boosted energy stocks and investors bet the Federal Reserve would not rai...

5 Reasons Investors Should Favor Index Funds, ETFs

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January 23, 2016

Mutual Funds

Alamy Investors seem to have made up their collective minds in deciding that passive investing -- index funds and exchange-traded fund that track the market benchmarks like the S&P 500 (^GSPC) -- is prefe...

Mutual Fund Investors, Beware: A Scary Tax Bill Is Coming

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November 30, 2015

Mutual Funds

Alamy The taxes you pay on your investment gains are among the biggest drags holding back the growth of your portfolio. Fortunately, many investors in stocks, bonds and other types of assets have almost compl...

Pizza and Pasta IPOs Aren’t Making Investors Much Dough

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September 21, 2015

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Study: Even Professional Investors Can’t Beat the Market

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April 13, 2015

Mutual Funds

Getty Images Stock-picking is hard, even for the professionals -- and it is only getting harder. A recent study found evidence that it's getting harder and harder for active mutual funds to outperform index...

Investors: Researching Stocks Is a Total Waste of Your Time

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February 20, 2015

Index Funds

Getty Images There are a lot of myths about investing. They all share these common traits: On the surface, they make sense. They're fairly easy to implement. They give you a sense you are doing something pos...

Lawsuit: Investors Harmed in Empire State Building IPO

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January 22, 2015

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John Moore/Getty Images NEW YORK -- Investors in the Empire State Building have filed a lawsuit accusing the real estate magnates who took it public of short-changing them $300 million by refusing to sell the...

Election Day 2012: Stocks Rise as Investors Wait for a Winner

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January 2, 2015

Insurance Industry

NEW YORK (AP) - Major stock-market indexes climbed Tuesday as investors waited for the finish of a closely fought U.S. presidential election. "We're on pins and needles," said Phil Orlando, chief equity stra...

AIG Sets Deadline for Talks With Investors Ahead of AIA’s IPO

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July 24, 2014

Insurance Industry

American International Group (AIG) will make a decision by early next week about whether to begin formal negotiations with strategic investors for its Asian life insurance unit AIA, Reuters reported. Insurer ...

Twitter’s ‘Anti-Facebook’ IPO Tactics Win Over Some Investors

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May 10, 2014

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Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTwitter CEO Richard Costolo, left, and Chief Financial Officer Mike Gupta leave JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York last Friday. Institutional investors who met with ...

Recently IPOed Restaurant Chains Giving Investors Indigestion

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January 25, 2014

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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images Last week was brutal for restaurant operators that recently went public. Sandwich baker Potbelly (PBPB) saw its shares plunge 23 percent on the week after warning that it ...

What can investors learn from the Cramer meltdown?

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January 15, 2014

Index Funds

My comment on CNBC that it should give investors more "in Bogle we trust" and less "in Cramer we trust" precipitated a Cramer tirade. It made great TV, but prevented a rational discussion of important issues. ...

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