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Americans feel lousy about things -- the worst they've felt since Jimmy Carter was president, a new consumer confidence survey shows.
The American Funds mutual fund group has gone 77 years without a significant whack from financial regulators, a track record that is a true rarity in the investment business.
The stories this week about people hoarding rice at some big-box U.S. retailers had to send at least a slight chill up the spines of Federal Reserve policymakers.
The risk takers are back in the world's financial markets, and they're hungry.
This isn't the way investors wanted to head into corporate earnings season.
When the dot-com mania of the late 1990s ended in ruin, many burned investors vowed, "I'll never do that again."
Manic weeks like this one in the markets test investors in so many ways. Including their ability to withstand massive metaphoric pile-up.
Recession may well be here, given the dismal February employment report Friday. But on Wall Street many investors still are having a hard time deciding how worried they should be.
It's a great time to be a buyer of high-quality tax-free municipal bonds.
The U.S. economy is getting a lot worse in a hurry, by many accounts. But the stock market isn't.