Shares with above-average yields and rising dividends may well offer the best returns in 2012.
Conflict with Iran could send the price of oil soaring and push gasoline prices to $5 a gallon, according to analysts. Here’s how to assess the chances that will happen.
Day to day, the stock market may feel like a roller-coaster, but in fact the U.S. is experiencing stagnation with a very, very faint upward trend.
Treasury bond prices will likely suffer a major decline in the next few years. Here are eight high-yielding stocks that are a smarter alternative for the income part of your portfolio.
Rating agencies have just downgraded the economic outlook for seven European countries. Does that really matter, or is it just acknowledging problems that everyone already knows about?
The U.S. stock market rallied Friday on hopes that the most recent bailout would save the common European currency and thus reduce the risk of economic and banking problems around the world. Almost immediately, however, cracks started showing in the new bulwark against global economic disruption. Not only did the U.K. refuse to join in [...]
Today’s global problems could paralyze the U.S. economy and stock markets for the next 10 years – but that can be prevented.
Investors face two growing risks – a crackup of the Eurozone and a double-dip recession. To track the gathering storm, keep your eye on global bond yields.
They’re aiming too low, they’re fundamentally divided on matters of principle, and they have no muscle. In the end, it’s Congress that will have to tackle U.S. economic problems.
The problems caused by rising debt are fundamentally different in the U.S. from those in Europe, but they are equally daunting.
The problems in Europe will negatively affect the U.S. but also create a few opportunities
