SKARBECK: Short-term sizzle can’t beat consistency
To achieve outsized returns, whether in mutual funds or individual stocks, investors must avoid the hype and reliance on past outperformance.
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HAUKE: Despite much bad news, market outlook OK for now
Another fact emerged during May. People became way too bearish. Surveys and market action both suggested a growing fear that
became almost everyone’s opinion.
Whopping dividend puts obscure oil refiner in spotlight
The financial underpinnings for the current quarterly dividend—45.5 cents per share—seem less than sturdy.
SKARBECK: Municipal bond defaults might be next crisis
for decades, politicians have regularly boosted public pension benefits to score election gains, while neglecting the long-term costs to municipal budgets. Now the bills are coming due.
HICKS: Derivatives don’t deserve their scary reputation
One major part of the legislation will target derivatives. This is an arena where the financial services industry does itself
no good from a public relations sense.
HAUKE: Bad news doesn’t yet apply to stock market
Here are the facts. Summer doesn’t turn into winter without going through fall. The same is true with the transition between
bull and bear markets.
Stocks plummet on economic worries
The Dow Jones industrials plunged below 10,000 Tuesday as traders turned away from stocks amid worries about the global economy
and tensions between North and South Korea.
HAUKE: Uncertain conditions create opportunities
U.S. markets look like they have at least one more rally on the way at some point in the next few months.
SKARBECK: Exchanges’ proposed fix for glitch is ludicrous
Is investing becoming a technology-rigged game for computerized gamblers who rent stocks for seconds or minutes and whose objective is to repeatedly skim small profits?
Stocks surge on effort to ease Europe debt crunch
The Dow Jones industrial average increased more than 400 points in early-Monday trading. Locally, Kite Realty and Conseco shares saw big jumps.
Stocks plunge on concerns about Greece’s debt
Stocks plunged Thursday as investors succumbed to fears that Greece's debt problems would halt the global economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrials slid almost 1,000 points before recovering to close down 347.
SKARBECK: Diversifying not sure fix for Lilly Endowment woes
Lilly Endowment has been a substantial Lilly stockholder for 73 years, so to focus on the past decade is a mistake.
HAUKE: Goldman effect creates buying opportunities
As much as I disagree with corporate welfare and insider back-room dealings, the fact is that Goldman Sachs is one of the most powerful institutions in the world.
SKARBECK: Finding one last lesson in Grace’s amazing tale
Grace held her investment through many ups and downs in the stock market. But most important to her was that Abbott as a
business continued to thrive, despite the swings in its stock price.
HAUKE: There’s little down side to investing Down Under
The country started off as a dump for prisoners and other unwanted British citizens, but it has evolved into a modern-day
paradise.
SKARBECK: How Grace stayed patient under pressure to sell
When we left, we were trying to imagine a few of the many obstacles Grace might have encountered as her initial investment grew into $7 million over 74 years.
HAUKE: As a rule, market doesn’t reflect today’s bad news
Until a bull market reaches its last stages (the final three to 12 months), there is a general lack of belief that the market
can go higher.
SKARBECK: Amazing patience paid off for Grace
Back in 1935, she invested $180 in Abbott Laboratories stock and never sold it. This one decision became the entire investment
career of Grace Groner.
HAUKE: Greece should own up to its spending habits
I normally don’t expect complete child-like behavior from heads of state, but every political leader in Europe has been
acting like a little kid trying to run away from the broken window.
SKARBECK: Financial reform should start with derivatives
At the very least, regulators need to get control of derivative trading—transactions need to be more transparent and carried
out on an exchange.