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In his new book, Trading Realities, tech-executive-turned-personal-investor Jeff Augen offers a refreshingly realistic account of how markets function in a sensible look at the forces that shape today's chaotic investment landscape.
Students helped columnist Peter Cohan come up with a fresh analysis that concludes that GE's parts would be worth 16% more, broken up, than the company's current market cap. Here's what the company should try to sell -- if investors were interested in buying.
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts on a misunderstanding about kickbacks at Foursquare, the second stimulus plan and the latest in Google perks: servants for its employees.
Traders will no longer be able to make direct trades without broker supervision. As part of a series of changes after May's "flash crash," the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission decided Wednesday to bar traders from having "naked" access to stock markets.
Two crashes in recent years are bad enough, but investors are also facing high-frequency traders, bearish insiders, less-than-honest corporate self-portrayals and a moribund mortgage market. It's no wonder they've lost confidence in the nation's equity markets.
JPMorgan Chase kicks off earnings season for the financial sector Thursday, and investors will be keen to see whether a pick-up in mergers and acquisitions has offset an industry-wide drop-off in trading activity.
On his Mad Money show last week, Jim Cramer encouraged viewers to add short-term trading to their portfolios. But how can an investor determine with certainty when a stock has "flown too high" and when to buy it back?
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts about the top iPhone apps (at least this week), the Standard & Poor's 500 index's climb, the argument for going short and why stocks may be in a bubble.
Index futures, index options, equity options and security futures are all set to expire Friday in a phenomenon known as the "quadruple witching" hour. It usually signals a time of higher trading volumes and surprises on Wall Street, but this time, investor uncertainty is likely to keep trades low.
Wells Fargo analyst Jason Maynard expects Oracle shares to keep growing in the next 12 months as the result of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this year. The company is scheduled to report its earnings Thursday.
Cisco Systems will pay out its first dividend within the next year, the computer-networking-gear maker promised shareholders Tuesday.
Some of the best reads for investors from around the Web, including posts about the market rising in spite of the Hindenburg Omen, 10 high-yield stocks and signs we're in a depression instead of a recession.
