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Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise
Breakfast (with Benjamin) is served: Dividend ETFs losing luster as rates rise; Bernanke's last stand; nontransparent active ETFs; Obamacare's drag on health care; useless jobless claims data; and global New Year's traditions.
Fed tapering could catch junk bond investors off guard
Plus: Looking for weakness in the Volcker rule, the case for stocks in 2014, the upside of market bubbles, and what the heck Elizabeth Warren is up to now?
Global markets riding high on the ‘Yellen effect’
Did Janet Yellen affect global markets? Better believe it. Also, four U.S. banks get cut by Moody's, some big names load up on gold and yes, there's an ETF with a chunk of Twitter. From InvestmentNews senior columnist Jeff Benjamin, who adds a Turkey Day preview.
Central bankers are trapped in QE nirvana
Central bankers are trapped in QE nirvana, the pre-holiday data dump, giving thanks to clients, green dividend stocks, and how to properly carve a turkey.
Friday markets brace for three big reports
Three big reports to hit the market, plus: Bitcoin spikes as euro takes a dive, Bernanke's prezzie to Yellen and advisers' big headache. Curated by InvestmentNews senior columnist Jeff Benjamin.
Despite market reaction, Bernanke’s head fake is a bad sign
Continuing QE is both an economic and psychological drag
Pimco’s Gross adds Treasuries after TIPs bet misses
As investors were yanking $9.9 billion from his flagship fund last month, Bill Gross was adding Treasuries to make up for his wrong-way bet on inflation.
Advisers lean toward Yellen for Fed post over Summers
Advisers lean toward Janet Yellen to replace Ben Bernanke as Fed chief over Larry Summers. Here's why.
Fed officials intensify effort to curb surge in rates after Bernanke comment
After investors interpreted Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's recent comments as signaling a sooner-than-expected end to central bank bond buying, Fed officials have sought to alter that view and halt the surge in interest rates.
<b>The Takeaway:</b> Crashtastic!
Portfolio Stock and bond markets crash into the close. This is what the Fed means when it says…
Manager plots strategy for the onset of inflation
Years of quantitative easing will have an effect; many prices already rising.
The market freak-out: A Fed-inspired buying opportunity
Redundant comments from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke trigger a silly selloff. Jeff Benjamin says to call the aftermath a Fed-inspired buying opportunity.
Looking for value in fixed income
IN webcast panel stress need for flexibility in allocations.
Joanna Bewick: Protecting against inflation
Interest rates are low now, but this Fidelity fund manager is guarding against what happens in the long run
Obama backs new inflation formula for Social Security
Alternative benchmark would close 25% of 75-year shortfall.
Two sides of the same (gold) coin: Bears vs. bulls
Investors seeing the same set of data but making different bets.
The new new normal
Who's afraid of slower growth and puny inflation rates? Apparently, not investors
Uncle Sam’s conjurring has clients investing in make-believe
Are government data related to inflation, unemployment and growth making it harder for investors?
Ship of fools? Fed’s QE tack will let loose inflation
Research Affiliates' Jason Hsu warns about too much nominal weath and two few goods
Peter Schiff: Why Krugman & Co. is dead wrong about inflation
Pro-stimulus economists are using a flawed measuring stick when dismissing inflationary concerns, according to Euro Pac's CEO
