RSS Feeds
Tom PetrunoMarket Beat• E-mail
|
Recent Columns:
Are things really that bad?
In a modern financial system, nothing is more frightening than a run on the bank.
Small investors constantly are advised to think long-term and to avoid panicking over short-term stock market declines.
There are times when almost nothing works for investors. This is one of those times, and it may soon severely test your patience.
Repeat something enough and people might actually begin to believe it's true.
It would be handy for investors if Wall Street could agree on which decade the U.S. economy is about to relive.
Investing in commodities has been a brilliant move in this decade -- so brilliant that the strategy has attracted untold numbers of large and small players, particularly in the last few years.
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.