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Predictions for 2010

It is the time of year when market pundits offer predictions for how the coming year will pan out. Such forecasts should always be taken with large grain of salt, given the dynamic nature of markets and the inherent unpredictability of the future. Moreover, successful investing requires flexibility, humility and openness to a range of possible outcomes. This mindset is particularly important in the present environment, given more ...

Negative/Zero Yields for Short-Term Treasuries

Investors Pay the Government to Hold Their Debt?

For the first time in seven decades,Treasury bills are paying no interest while stocks continue to appreciate -- a divergence in US financial markets that might be perilous if Fed Chairman Ben more ...

Does the Market Rally Have Legs to It?

That is a good question, and in a similar vein it is like asking if Santa is for real. Well...kind of. Christmas is a time of gift giving, and the market rebound has offered us some gifts as well. It now appears that we have moved away from the Armageddon scenario of last year, and are rebuilding, be it ever so slowly. With the markets on the right trajectory as of recent, it seems safe to come out of our bunkers again. The rocky more ...

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