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Are Hedge Funds Ready for a Rebound in Gold Miners?
Gold recently posted its first annual loss in more than a decade and caused some investors to question their strategies. However, some popular hedge funds remained interested in the precious metal and...
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Has the Federal Reserve’s Unemployment Threshold Become Irrelevant?
Source: Thinkstock Historically, the U.S. Federal Reserve has had one primary tool it reached for when it needed to edit the monetary environment. That tool is the raising or lowering of the target...
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Limber Up: 3 Reasons to Keep Your Bond Portfolio Flexible
Source: Getty Images Speaking in June of 2013 at a time when the Federal Reserve had the monetary throttle wide open and quantitative easing was running at $85 billion per month, Pimco Founder and...
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Is Wealth Creation Skipping Some Generations?
Source: Thinkstock The Federal Reserve’s wealth effect is perhaps the worst-kept secret in finance. Over the past several years, the central bank injected record amounts of liquidity into the...
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Will Higher Interest Rates Ruin the Stock Rally?
Source: alisonbowden14 / Flickr More than five years have passed since the Federal Reserve announced its first round of large-scale asset purchases. The central bank quickly followed the move by...
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Top 10 Nations Stockpiling Gold
Source: Thinkstock Discussions involving gold hoarders tend to generate images of the stereotypical nervous Nellie hiding out somewhere in the wilderness. Uncivilized and irrational, they count their...
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Gold Bears Are Pounding the Table Again
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen-oung/ Before the Federal Reserve’s latest policy meeting, gold enjoyed an unblemished start to the new year. The precious metal outperformed every asset...
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How Risky Is a Bet In the U.S. Bond Market?
Source: Thinkstock It’s bear season in the U.S. bond market right now — just ask Pimco Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer Bill Gross, whose $232 billion Total Return Fund, the world’s largest,...
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Do Americans Trust the Stock Market?
Source: Thinkstock The Federal Reserve has taken dramatic steps in recent years to stabilize banks and force investors into riskier assets. This so-called “wealth effect” is an idea that a sustainable...
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How Much Did the Federal Reserve Cost Savers?
The Federal Reserve first started to take unprecedented actions to stabilize financial markets more than five years ago. The central bank began by making large-scale asset purchases, and quickly...
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Bernanke: Santa Claus or The Grinch?
I’ve written plenty about my thoughts on the Fed and all the blathering from the media talking heads. Debates about the timing and probability of a Fed “taper” decision came to a crescendo in the...
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Fed Taper: Should It Have Been Bigger?
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher didn’t get to vote on the taper this year — he’ll have his say in 2014 — but he would have liked an even larger cut to the U.S. Federal...
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Bernanke: Fed to Continue Bond Buying for the Long Haul
Financial markets have been known to vacillate wildly when Ben Bernanke speaks. In the Federal Reserve Chairman’s final speech in Philadelphia, Bernanke conveyed a tone of cautious optimism in...
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Housing Market Feels the Fed Taper Effect
With the Federal Reserve deciding to dial down its month bond purchases, mortgage interest rates climbed higher while home refinancing tumbled, according to the latest report from the Mortgage Bankers...
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Is Inflation Finally Starting to Gain Traction?
It’s not your imagination that your wallet is feeling a bit lighter these days. In December, consumer prices in the United States posted their largest gain in six months. The headline consumer price...
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Top 5 Most Valuable Banking Brands in the World
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uggboy/ With the help of the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented monetary policy, the banking system has enjoyed improved stability and bigger profits in recent years....
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Is China the World’s Biggest Goldbug?
Gold became Wall Street’s favorite punching bag after posting its worst annual performance in decades. Many investment firms providing coverage significantly lowered price targets, and headlines...
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Is the Worst Finally Over for Gold Miners?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tao_zhyn/ If the price of gold has been unkind to investors over the past couple years, then gold miners have been nothing short of downright cruel. As a group,...
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Are Hedge Funds Ready for a Rebound in Gold Miners?
Gold recently posted its first annual loss in more than a decade and caused some investors to question their strategies. However, some popular hedge funds remained interested in the precious metal and...
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Limber Up: 3 Reasons to Keep Your Bond Portfolio Flexible
Source: Getty Images Speaking in June of 2013 at a time when the Federal Reserve had the monetary throttle wide open and quantitative easing was running at $85 billion per month, Pimco Founder and...
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