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The terrorists who hijacked four planes and destroyed the World Trade Center in New York killed thousands of people. But they did not kill the U.S. financial system. History suggests [...]

BOSTON -- The first quarter just ended so, like most money managers, I am busy writing quarterly reports to clients... In an idle moment, I was daydreaming that the Standard [...]

How do you find good US stocks? Pick the least attractive The economist John Maynard Keynes said that the stock market is like a beauty contest. The judges, he said, [...]

To invest successfully, one trap you have to avoid is what I call the 'oriental rug fallacy.' Ads for oriental rugs perennially stress the percentage markdown from the original list [...]

It's always dangerous to judge a city by its skyscrapers. But a look at the 20 largest stocks in the United States can tell you quite a bit about the [...]

Buy oil. They're not making it anymore Energy stocks make up a big chunk of stock markets here and in the US. Over the past year, those stocks have been [...]

A lot of people think dividends are for wimps. The prevailing thinking insists that only companies with very little growth, such as utilities, need to use a dividend to attract [...]

US Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan hopes a rate cut will save the stock market. He's wrong Playing physician to both the world economy and the US stock market, the US [...]

Bouncing around in the 8700 to 9000 range, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is back where it was in March. It has repeatedly pierced the 9000 barrier, and it has [...]

Here at home, stocks look overpriced. Go abroad, though, and bargains abound We've all heard about the virtues of diversifying our portfolios around the globe. Of course, if you're anything [...]