rebound

Lower prices may sound nice, but deflation can wreck an economy with pay cuts, lower profits and falling stock prices.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development doubled its forecast for the global recovery from the deepest recession in decades. But even its new numbers call for a remarkably weak economic rebound. "The good news is that the recovery -- albeit a weak one -- is under way," OECD...

As the stock market powers ahead again, many nervous investors are asking themselves if shares are now overvalued. The Dow Jones and the broader S&P 500, after all, are now up more than 50% off their recent lows and picked up again this week. For many bears caught off-guard by the sharp...

The financial crisis crystallized the realities of systemic risk -- the idea that in certain panic-stricken environments, no company reliant on functioning credit markets is safe, even if it is fundamentally sound on its own merits. No company may have been hurt more by guilt-by-association during...

Jim Oberweis, president of Oberweis Asset Management and the editor of investment newsletter The Oberweis Report, says that after a long hiatus, the tech sector is finally showing signs of a rebound. Wall Street veterans have long dispensed advice on "bubbles," often predicting that the bust...