Investing Analysis

Over the last two months, stock-market fluctuations have been extreme. In August, 400-point swings became a common daily occurrence for the Dow Jones Industrial...

At the Fed’s policy meeting yesterday, Mr. Bernanke announced that what America desperately needs is a rearranging of the deck chairs. Facing opposition from,...

Copper is said to have a PhD in economics for its ability to forecast the economy. Copper is used in everything from construction to...

Goldman Sachs is closing up shop at its flagship Global Alpha hedge fund. Global Alpha is one of the best-known quantitative hedge funds in...

Julia Child made cooking look easy. The same cannot be said about U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and monetary policy. He makes it...

You really have to be careful what you read these days. There is loads of misguided advice pumped out of the financial press. I...

I was listening to Bloomberg radio the other day and Carly Fiorina was on as a guest. Carly is the former CEO of Hewlett...

The temptation to be a speculator in this market is high thanks to some neck snapping stock market volatility, surging gold prices and pathetically...

You may have learned about the trouble with annuities. In its simplest form, an annuity is an arrangement in which you give an insurance company a lump sum of money and in exchange you receive payments over time. For a fee, that is. At the end of the day, what you’re really doing is giving up control over your money to some investment board that promises to pay you back over time. Assuming, of course, that it stays solvent.

In the almost 60 year history of the Michigan consumer sentiment survey, every time the index dropped below 60 as it did in August, the economy was in recession.