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Russ Koesterich: When you’re watching horror movies, the time to worry is when things become eerily quiet. Last Friday, the market’s own measure of fear, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX), hit its lowest level since last July. This is the financial equivalent of eerily quiet. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Last year, mega-cap companies were cheaper and more profitable than their smaller counterparts. That’s why I continuously advocated for mega-cap, quality stocks as a defensive play amid last year’s market volatility, economic shocks and political paralysis. Ultimately, investing in mega Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain long-term overweight global equities: In December, equity markets exhibited a marked improvement, which has continued into 2012. Read more…
Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Maintain long-term overweight global equities “Why own stocks in the first place?” Many investors are asking this question in light of the long-term stagnation in global equity markets, recent market volatility and the surprising outperformance by bonds in 2011. Read more…
Ron Rowland: Income-hungry investors are having a rough time right now. Interest rates are at historic lows in the U.S. Worse, Ben Bernanke and his chums at the Fed seem determined to keep rates near zero. Even threats of inflation everywhere haven’t budged Ben from his plan. Read more…
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Celebrating the one year anniversary of their partnership on a commission-free ETF platform, iShares and Fidelity announced the expansion of a program that allows free trading of certain Read more…
Fidelity Investments announced on Wednesday that it has added a five more iShares exchange traded funds to its free trading program. Fidelity now offers its brokerage customers free trading on 30 ETFs all managed by BlackRock’s iShares unit, up from 25 when the partnership began Read more…
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With interest rates at record lows and expected to remain depressed for the foreseeable future, investors have been forced to get creative in their hunt for current return. Some have shifted Read more…
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As we enter year three of record low interest rates, many investors continue to face significant challenges in constructing a portfolio that delivers attractive current income without taking on 
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