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Why 2020 and Future Years May Be Challenging for Asset Managers

Posted: January 2, 2020 at 12:45 pm

When the stock market rises, most investors just assume that the value of financial stocks should rise along with it. After all, if the underlying value of assets under management ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Abbott Labs, AMD, Analog Devices, Applied Materials, Ford, Illumina, Medtronic, Tesla, Wells Fargo and More

Posted: January 2, 2020 at 9:20 am

Stocks turned in a banner 2019, with roughly a 28% gain on the S&P 500, but that's all over now and it's time to look at 2020. The consensus targets ...
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30 Sustainable Dividend Yields of 3.5% to Over 5% for Cautious Income Investors

Posted: August 26, 2019 at 10:25 am
Last updated: January 11, 2020 4:28 am

It's a tricky world for income investors. There is currently around $15 trillion worth of government bonds trading at negative yields between Europe and Japan, and U.S. bond buyers have ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AbbVie, Adobe, Amex, Intel, 3M, Microsoft, SAP, Shopify, Sprint, Target and More

Posted: April 29, 2019 at 8:50 am
Last updated: January 6, 2020 5:09 am

Stocks were indicated to open mildly lower on Monday, but no direction seems clear because the losses were less than 0.1% on all three major index futures. The S&P 500 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADS, American Tower, Anadarko, CVS, Dow, Infosys, Nokia, Phillips 66, Wells Fargo and More

Posted: April 15, 2019 at 8:45 am
Last updated: January 6, 2020 5:34 am

Stocks were absolutely directionless on Monday's early trading indications, with no major news influencing the markets in either direction. The major market indexes are still up in the double-digit percentages ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Chesapeake, CME, Constellation, Dominion Energy, EA, Gap, Netflix, Starbucks, Viacom, Yum, Zynga and More

Posted: January 11, 2019 at 9:00 am
Last updated: January 11, 2020 12:41 pm

Stocks were indicated to open lower on Friday, but Thursday's soft opening ended up marking another day of gains after Fed Chair Powell spoke and soothed more rate-hike fears. It ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Chevron, First Data, JD.com, MongoDB, PG&E, Rite Aid, Tilray, Vodafone and More

Posted: September 6, 2018 at 9:00 am
Last updated: January 11, 2020 6:20 pm

Stocks were indicated marginally higher on Thursday, but not so much that the direction of the trading day looked set in stone. The major market equity indexes recently hit all-time ...
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Will Zero-Fee ETFs and Mutual Funds Destroy the Profitability of Investment Managers?

Posted: August 9, 2018 at 10:45 am
Last updated: January 11, 2020 7:38 pm

When investors place money with mutual fund managers or invest in exchange traded funds and equities, they automatically assume that they will have to pay fees. These may be one-time ...
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Monday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: July 30, 2018 at 4:09 pm
Last updated: January 11, 2020 8:10 pm

July 30, 2018: The S&P 500 closed down 0.6% at 2,802.71. The DJIA closed down 0.6% at 25,307.70. Separately, the Nasdaq was down 1.4% at 7,630.00. Monday was a down ...
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Dominion Energy, Franklin Resources Plop into Wednesday’s 52-Week Low Club

Posted: April 11, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Last updated: January 12, 2020 1:31 am

April 11, 2018: Here are four stocks trading with heavy volume among 23 equities making new 52-week lows in Wednesday's session. On the NYSE advancers led decliners by just 23 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Blue Apron, Boston Beer, Caterpillar, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Xerox and More

Posted: July 24, 2017 at 9:10 am
Last updated: January 12, 2020 9:52 am

Stocks were indicated to open slightly lower on Monday, but the indexes remain close to all-time highs. This bull market may now be well over eight years old, but investors ...
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Bond Insurers Hold Up Against Puerto Rico Bankruptcy Exposure

Posted: May 3, 2017 at 5:40 pm
Last updated: January 12, 2020 12:21 pm

There is another Greece situation that was actually closer to the U.S. and may have more directly exposure to the U.S. than Greece. The inevitable bankruptcy of Puerto Rico has finally ...
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Merrill Lynch Says Time to Buy These 5 Top Dividend Aristocrat Stocks

Posted: March 17, 2017 at 10:10 am
Last updated: January 12, 2020 1:52 pm

There is almost no question that the market is getting a little tired and long in the tooth. Having rallied since March of 2009 and becoming a full-fledged bull market ...
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First Solar Now Has Franklin Templeton Funds Among Top Shareholders

Posted: February 8, 2017 at 1:35 pm
Last updated: January 12, 2020 3:02 pm

If there is one area of President Donald Trump's energy policy that remains under a cloud of confusion, alternative and renewable energy has to fit the bill. This has created ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades After Election: IBM, Qualcomm, Valeant, Yum China, CSX, DeVry and More

Posted: November 10, 2016 at 9:05 am
Last updated: January 12, 2020 5:57 pm

OK, so the market did not implode after the election. In fact, a more than 700 point drop in the Dow turned into a net 256 point gain. Thursday, stocks ...
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