Legg Mason

Legg Mason's Bill Miller was the mutual fund industry's rock star through the 1990s and the first few years of this millennium. Now he's unplugging his amp and walking off the stage.

There's never a dull moment on Wall Street, especially when new tablets and old banks are in the way. Let's go over some of the items that will help shape the week ahead once Monday rolls around.

There's no such thing as a summertime lull when earnings season is upon us. Even if you don't feel like alerting the "sell in May and go away" camp of investors, there are plenty of headlines to be written about. Here are five things that will shape the way the market acts in the week ahead.

Here's the question: What about Bill Miller? The man once hailed as "the country's greatest mutual fund manager" is now a Wall Street goat, and there's a vital investing lesson to be learned from his fall from grace.

When a friend recently told me she wanted to invest more money in bonds, I was surprised. Not just because we rarely discuss specific investments. (I'm uncomfortable giving friends financial advice for obvious reasons). But mostly because she's considering loading up on bonds right now. Wow, bad...

An expanding roster of heavyweight investors are betting that the economic recovery taking shape in the U.S. will be much stronger than is widely believed. The growing bullishness among major investors follows a wave of optimistic economic data that suggests prior views of muted recovery might be...