Items by By JEFF SOMMER
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Strategies: Stocks and the Economy, Singing Different Tunes
Posted: April 21st, 2012, 9:20pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Ride the wave or batten the hatches? For investors, it’s a dichotomy that occurs quite often.
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Strategies: Canada Drops the Penny, but Will the U.S.?
Posted: April 7th, 2012, 8:00pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Canada will stop making the penny, for reasons that would seem to apply equally well in the United States. For one thing, pennies cost more to make than they are worth.
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Strategies: Stock Market, Like Tiger Woods, Is Out of the Rough
Posted: March 31st, 2012, 9:11pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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After losing their way a few years ago, both Tiger Woods and Wall Street have both rebounded to success. But, in each case, how long will it last?
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Strategies: Stock Market, Like Tiger Woods, Is Out of the Rough
Posted: March 31st, 2012, 9:11pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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After losing their way a few years ago, both Tiger Woods and Wall Street have both rebounded to success. But, in each case, how long will it last?
NYT > Business
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Strategies: Rising Gasoline Prices Could Soon Have Economic Effects
Posted: March 3rd, 2012, 4:40pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Rising gas prices have yet to have much economic effect, but the situation could change soon, possibly affecting the stock market and the presidential election.
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Strategies: I.P.O. Euphoria, Without Much Memory — Strategies
Posted: February 4th, 2012, 8:23pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Amid the Wall Street excitement over Facebook’s planned initial public offering, it may be a good time to take a look at I.P.O. history.
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Strategies: How Long Can the Stock Market Forget About the Pain?
Posted: January 28th, 2012, 5:50pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Despite buoyant returns for stocks so far this year, it’s hardly time for investors to whistle, “Don’t worry, be happy.” Big problems linger from 2011.
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Strategies: A Starbucks Price Increase, to a Not-So-Round Final Number
Posted: January 14th, 2012, 11:51pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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In Manhattan, a “tall” cup of Starbucks coffee now costs $2.01, with tax, and an executive of the chain said the pricing wasn’t an accident.
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Strategies: An Election Too Close to Call, as Seen in an Economic Lens
Posted: January 7th, 2012, 10:23pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Ray Fair has studied the economy’s effect on American elections for decades. His projections show the president with a slight lead, but that might change.
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Strategies: Why Investors Should Look Beyond Europe — Strategies
Posted: December 10th, 2011, 8:40pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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In one banker’s view, developments in the world’s fast-growth markets will prove much more important to investors than the issues of the euro zone.
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Nobel Winners in Economics: The Reluctant Celebrities
Posted: December 4th, 2011, 1:42am EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Two quiet, celebrity-shy professors have reached the top of the economics field — with work that goes far beyond the profession’s usual labels.
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Strategies: Goldman’s Beige Book Shows an Uncertain Business Outlook
Posted: November 19th, 2011, 4:00pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The “beige book,” a quarterly report produced by Goldman Sachs that emphasizes pithy statements by executives in earnings conference calls, makes for disturbing reading about the economy.
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Strategies: Greek Bonds May Offer Contrarian Clues to U.S. Stocks
Posted: November 6th, 2011, 1:06am EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Out of Europe’s confusion comes an unlikely contrarian indicator for American investors: the battered Greek bond.
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Strategies: Whatever Happened to ‘Risk Free’?
Posted: August 13th, 2011, 8:33pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating calls into question the whole notion of what constitutes a rock-solid investment.
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Strategies: The Guilt of Trading Too Much
Posted: June 5th, 2011, 2:56am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Affluent people feel compelled to trade frequently, a recent survey found, though they also believe that their trading is excessive.
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Strategies: Chasing the China Bandwagon
Posted: January 22nd, 2011, 1:23pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The recent visit of China’s president gives investors more reasons to take notice of its surging economic growth.
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Strategies: Market Predictions, With Many Grains of Salt
Posted: January 8th, 2011, 1:25pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Financial forecasts, laden with finely diced numbers and elegant charts, are rolling in for 2011. But what should investors make of them?
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Strategies: Market Wisdom Applies to E.T.F.’s, Too
Posted: January 1st, 2011, 10:40pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The founder of Vanguard says that trying to time the market in exchange-traded funds, as in anything else, is asking for trouble.
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Strategies: A Forecast That Obama Could Love
Posted: November 20th, 2010, 11:32am EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Based on the economic facts at hand — and not counting for possible financial shocks — a Yale economist says President Obama may be easily re-elected.
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Strategies: Can the Fed Draw a Virtuous Circle?
Posted: November 6th, 2010, 10:50pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Economists say the positive effects of the Fed’s easing move could be negated by factors like political gridlock in Washington.
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Strategies: Raising Sails for the Fed’s Gales
Posted: October 23rd, 2010, 10:50pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The gloomy economic news continues to flow, but many investors are finding solace in the Wall Street adage: “Don’t fight the Fed.”
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Strategies: If Congress Stalls, Do Stocks Rise?
Posted: September 26th, 2010, 1:05am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The numbers do not back the idea that governmental gridlock is beneficial, but they do show that the market fares better when Congress isn’t in session.
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Strategies: A Wealth of Choices for a Value Investor
Posted: September 11th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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One money manager says he is finding more bargains among American blue-chip stocks than he has ever seen.
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Strategies: Double-Dip Recession? A Tipping Point May Be Near
Posted: August 14th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Amid fears of renewed recession, Treasury bonds are still ruling the roost.
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Strategies: Small Step on Mutual Fund Fees, but Big Charges Remain
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 2:20am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The steady drain of fees like the 12b-1 can erode a nest egg over time. The S.E.C. is stepping in, but in a modest way.
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Strategies: Head for the Hills? No Way, Says Jeremy J. Siegel
Posted: July 17th, 2010, 6:15pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Jeremy J. Siegel of the Wharton School says that “it’s exactly times like this” that investors should be poised to reap stock-market gains.
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Strategies: A Coding Error Spells Problems at AXA Rosenberg
Posted: June 19th, 2010, 11:40pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The problems facing AXA Rosenberg offer a timely reminder that a quantitative portfolio depends on its underlying computer code.
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Strategies: A Flight to Treasury Bonds That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
Posted: June 6th, 2010, 1:50am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The European crisis has overturned many expectations for the stock and bond markets.
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How Men’s Overconfidence Hurts Them as Investors
Posted: March 13th, 2010, 4:57pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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During the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, men were much more likely than women to sell their stock at market lows, a new study has found.
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A Crystal Ball, With Caveats and Corrections
Posted: December 20th, 2009, 12:13am EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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Stock market professionals see a range of possibilities for 2010 — and few are completely upbeat.
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Is the Recent Rally Irrational Exuberance?
Posted: September 20th, 2009, 2:38am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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After the stock market gained more than 50 percent since March, some analysts warn that a correction is due.
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Up 40%, but Still Feeling Down
Posted: July 25th, 2009, 3:10pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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When your portfolio shrinks, you may need bigger percentage gains than you think to climb back to where you started. That’s why it’s important to minimize losses in the first place.
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Investors Are Looking on the Bright Side
Posted: May 2nd, 2009, 1:52pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The economy declined at a brisk pace in the first quarter and, by all accounts, it is still shrinking — yet the stock market climbed last week, and in April it posted its best monthly returns since 1991.
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Stocks Slip, Despite a Friday Rally
Posted: April 25th, 2009, 4:52pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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After almost two months of gains, the stock market declined modestly last week, although a rally on Friday helped to mitigate the losses.
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Rally Continues Despite Fed’s Warnings
Posted: April 11th, 2009, 11:23pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market rose again last week, heartened on Thursday by Wells Fargo’s upbeat profit forecast.
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Job Losses Don’t Stymie a Wall St. Rally
Posted: April 4th, 2009, 4:34pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market rally that began on March 9 kept on rolling last week, despite a grim economic report on Friday that showed unemployment in the United States rising to 8.5 percent.
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The Market Is Up, but for How Long?
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 7:40pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Despite a decline on Friday, the stock market rose smartly again last week, extending the market’s rally since March 9 to a climb of more than 20 percent.
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Even for Market Veterans, It’s Uncharted Territory
Posted: March 7th, 2009, 2:39pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The consensus of four experts: You’ll need strong nerves if you want to jump into stocks.
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2009’s First Month Disappoints Investors
Posted: January 31st, 2009, 12:53pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market fell for a fourth consecutive week on poor earnings reports and on data showing that the economy contracted in the fourth quarter at the fastest pace in a quarter-century.
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Seeking Solace? You’ll Find Little in the Bond Market
Posted: November 22nd, 2008, 4:24pm EST by By JEFF SOMMER
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The global credit crisis has shattered the expectations of many investors as some bond portfolios have taken enormous hits.
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Stocks Slip as Investors Wait for a Plan
Posted: September 27th, 2008, 3:04pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market lost ground as investors awaited a financial rescue plan from Washington.
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Stocks Lack Direction Even as Oil Declines
Posted: August 17th, 2008, 2:15am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The price of oil fell during the week while inflation in July rose to a 5.6 percent annual rate, a 17-year high. There was no clear direction for the stock market.
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As Oil Slides, Rallies for Dow and S.& P.
Posted: July 19th, 2008, 8:24pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Oil prices dropped sharply last week, and the stock market rallied after four weeks of losses.
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Data Bank: Fannie and Freddie Skid, and Markets Slide
Posted: July 12th, 2008, 3:41pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Concern about the stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage-lending giants, weighed on the markets and sent stocks down again last week.
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Databank: A Rough Week in a Rough Year for Stocks
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 11:38pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market took a beating last week, pulling the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index down by more than 10 percent for the year.
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Databank: A Mixed Bag, With Inflation a Top Worry
Posted: June 14th, 2008, 11:51pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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It was a mixed week for the stock market, which was constrained by unfavorable economic reports but nonetheless had some pockets of strength.
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Technology Stocks Are the Week’s Stars
Posted: May 31st, 2008, 10:48pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The overall stock market managed a small gain for the week, and technology stocks propelled the Nasdaq composite index to a hefty advance.
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Databank: Dow Falls 507 Points as Oil Prices Soar
Posted: May 24th, 2008, 2:43pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Rising energy costs and further declines in the troubled housing market led to steep losses in stocks last week.
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Low Expectations Made for a Good Week
Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 10:52pm EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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DataBank: Earnings Led Rally Despite Write-Downs
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 2:33am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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Wall Street banks took further multibillion-dollar write-downs last week. -
A Strong Start to the Second Quarter
Posted: April 6th, 2008, 1:04am EDT by By JEFF SOMMER
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The stock market rose last week in its biggest weekly gain in two months.