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The retail investor is tip-toeing into the market this week as expected. Last week, in an interview with Forbes, Allan Conway, a fund manager for Schroders in London told me that he expected the retailer to return to the market within the next few weeks, but that flow would not last for long. “Most of

Warren Buffett, the jocular Midwestern billionaire best known for his appearances in business magazines and on CNBC, has joined Twitter. Yes, that’s right, the online bastion of starlets and rappers and millions of ordinary teenagers is now an outlet for probably the most anti-technology curmudgeon of modern times. His first tweet? “Warren is in the

For three decades, Byron Wien, vice chairman of multi-asset investing at the Blackstone Group, has made it a habit of publishing ten surprises for investors in the New Year. His predictions involve market moving events he believes have a better than 50% chance of occurring, but that are being treated by investors as unlikely. Wien would likely be

For more than a year, many of America’s weightiest CEOs and investors have been working to solve a major issue looming over the companies and portfolios they oversee: There’s a gap in confidence between investors and the corporations that trade on public stock markets. Many investors have grown frustrated with what they perceive as excessive executive compensation,

So much for Britain’s vote to leave the European Union creating an immediate earnings headache for America’s largest banks. On Thursday morning, JPMorgan Chase shrugged off June’s Brexit vote, posting better than expected second quarter results, led by stronger than forecast trading activity and continued growth at the bank’s consumer business. The results augur well for banking

A lot of hair has been pulled over the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote. Sure, there were a couple of days when there was extreme volatility, but there are more important investment truths that need to be heeded. It’s easy to take your eye off the ball when so much turmoil is dominating the business headlines. You want

I was recently asked by an editor to write a piece on how Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump will impact the U.S. economy and markets. I declined. The next president will matter, of course, to the future of the country and the world, but may have almost no long-term impact on the economy and markets.

Investors are bidding down the yields on bonds issued by highly rated countries around the world, causing German, Swiss, Japanese and Dutch 10-year bonds to offer negative yields. Lending to the United States for 10-years presently yields 1.35%, down from the 2%-plus rates they yielded at the end of 2015, even once risky governments like