After the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers meet Sunday in Super Bowl XLV, only one team will hoist the Lombardy Trophy. But the so-called “Super Bowl indicator” says this year’s match-up forecasts a bull market no matt…
The recent pushback on health care reform appears to have boosted the stock prices of health insurance companies, which have outperformed major indexes by quite a margin so far this year. That’s because Americans have been cutt…
Ben Bernanke insists that inflation remains “quite low.” That’s true, unless you need to eat. Core inflation doesn’t include food prices, and they’re soaring around the globe. In fact, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organizati…
Hoping to add some safety against inflation to their portfolios, many folks have been investing in Treasury inflation-protected securities — TIPS. So now that inflation is on the horizon, they should be sitting pretty, right? …
Japanese investors were giddy with excitement as positive earnings reports and the announcement of a major merger flooded the news. The Nikkei 225 advanced 1.1% on Friday, while markets in Hong Kong and China remained closed fo…