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There’s an old saying in trading circles: “Don’t try to catch a falling knife.” After a string of bruising losses— with the major stock indices down nearly 15% since the start of the month—it seemed market participants were all waiting for others to be the first...

The reason why the value of American stocks is higher today than it has historically been is simple, according to billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) CEO Warren Buffett: stock repurchases. What Happened Investors have many options to allocate their...

Why would any investor want bond exposure when stocks continue to rise higher and many dividend payers offer superior yields? CNBC's Jim Cramer has a simple answer: Stocks are intended for capital appreciation, turning "money into more money." On the other hand, bonds are intended...

The world's biggest pension fund is now 7.9 trillion yen richer ($70 billion) richer. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund earned a 5.9 percent return for the one-year period ended March 31, Bloomberg reported. The fund now holds 144.9 trillion yen worth of assets, including Japan-...

Many equity investors aren't big fans of holding bonds in their portfolio since some high-growth dividend stocks offer an equally attractive dividend yield with the added potential for upside in the stock. But they may be making a mistake in doing so, CNBC's Jim Cramer argued during his...

U.S. equities soared Monday morning after the FBI confirmed over the weekend it has no new evidence that implicates Hillary Clinton in the ongoing e-mail scandal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average soared more than 250 points while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices each gained more than 1.50 percent...

Mohamed El-Erian, a well-respected economist and chief economic adviser at Allianz, isn't a fan of owning stocks. In an interview with Bloomberg, El-Erian said he isn't avoiding stocks because of the perceived risks. In fact, his portfolio composition contains assets generally considered to be...

Major U.S. equity indices rose throughout July, but at the same time, bonds have also performed well. According to analysts at Argus Research, for the first time in seven months, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index gained 4.6 percent. The question many investors are now asking is what is the...

Company news and the corresponding reaction in their stock price tend to dominate news headlines, while bond-related news often gets ignored. Perhaps now is the worst time ever to ignore the bond market and the signal that it is sending, at least according to the New York Times. New York Times...

This wedding season, ditch the traditional toaster oven and give the gift that people really want: stock. And there's a new website that makes it easy. Shareswell is an online platform for gifting and receiving stock, and it's pretty simple. Users create a registry for their special event...

The stock market is getting whacked. The question now for many investors is, what to do about it. The first thing to do is to understand what's going on -- in part because simply saying the stock market is getting whacked doesn't tell the whole picture. So let's sketch that in and then decide...

As the spring training baseball games start in earnest, it might be useful to see what lessons from America's pastime can make us better investors. There are many similarities between the game of baseball and the serious business of investing. Both consist of long periods of time of relative...