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There’s no doubt the stock market has behaved much differently after the election than it did in the first half of the year. Riskier, formerly dormant small cap stocks awoke in a big way --...

I’ve seen some pretty crazy moves during my two decades of following the markets closely. The Long-Term Capital Management debacle. The dot-com boom and bust. The mortgage mania ... and...

Follow the money. That’s what the tipster code-named “Deep Throat” told Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein when they were reporting on the Watergate scandal. But that advice applies in investing,...

For many years, we were stuck in a binary “Risk On” and Risk Off’ environment -- where almost all stocks go up and down together in unison. But after another rise in interest rates last week, and...

[Image by AgnosticPreachersKid via CC 3.0] After much debate and anticipation, the Federal Reserve finally hiked interest rates again last week. It raised the benchmark short-term rate to a...

It was the best of times for some stocks earlier this year. But it’s the worst of times for them now – and that has implications for investors like you. The year started off with markets mired...

JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, the largest bank in the U.S. with over $2 trillion in assets, was upgraded to a Weiss Safety Rating of B. The seventh-largest bank, Bank of New York...

At first, the post-election surge in stock values appeared to be short-lived. But nearly five weeks and one short down tick later, it continues to maintain steam with BUY stocks increasing once...

Italy’s banks are some of the most troubled banks in the Eurozone. Weighed down by bad loans, they may all be once again looking for new sources of capital after burning through cash from prior...