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Federal Stimulus Should Keep Stock Market Bulls Happy

{ Posted on Feb 21 2011 by Jon D. Markman }
Stocks rose fitfully last week in a typically strange, exciting, exasperating options-expiration week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite Index all ended roughly 1% higher, while ...Read More »

Federal Stimulus Should Keep Stock Market Bulls Happy

{ Posted on Feb 21 2011 by Jon D. Markman }
Stocks rose fitfully last week in a typically strange, exciting, exasperating options-expiration week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, Standard & Poor's 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite Index all ended roughly 1% higher, while ...Read More »

The Jobs Market May Look Bleak, But Your Investments Don’t Have To

{ Posted on Oct 14 2010 by Jon D. Markman }
There's no getting around the fact that the U.S. jobs market is bleak. Ultimately, though, it's a stark reminder that as investors, we should be looking abroad for maximum profits. Indeed, investors ...Read More »

Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Moving Business Online as Foot Traffic Declines

{ Posted on Sep 02 2010 by Kerri Shannon }
U.S. retailers this year geared up for the annual back-to-school shopping season, the parents and children didn't fill the streets and shopping malls - they stayed inside, and online, cruising for bargains on the Internet. Overall sales ...Read More »