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BlackRock's stock price fell sharply on Wednesday morning after the global investment management firm confirmed that Bank of America and PNC Financial Services would sell 42 million of its shares in a secondary offering.

Providers of exchange-traded funds and notes had a strong 2009 and the new year is shaping up to bring more of the same. But what's good for ETF companies isn't necessarily good for investors.

The market is looking for signs of recovery in the second half of the year. This is not like the search for intelligent life in the universe, but it's awfully close. For one thing, much bad news looms on the horizon. Unemployment is expected to top 10 percent sometime before labor day. Heck, even...

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's $1 trillion plan to encourage private companies to snap up toxic assets that are weighing-down the balance sheets of banks was greeted warmly by Wall Street, even as some economists raised questions about its effectiveness. Investors who earlier complained...