Economic Indicators

Fair-weather funds forsake fixed income

Encouraged by stock market returns for 2012, equity investors are in a risk-on mode as they move their money out of bonds and into stocks. In the U.S., investors bought $1.8 billion worth of mutual funds and ETFs in the first week of 2013. The shift, dubbed by market watchers the “great rotation,” reverses a […]

By Vikram Barhat |January 21, 2013

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2013 predictions from the oilpatch

Stocks will perform below their historical averages, but still around 4% over the next two-to-five years.

By Jacqueline Louie |January 21, 2013

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Swiss franc tumbles on profit booking

A wave of sell-off hammered the Swiss franc, which tumbled to its lowest in 20 months. A result of currency traders moving quickly to capitalize on improved sentiment in Europe, the franc’s fall has led many to believe the Swiss National Bank could unload some of its large cache of foreign currency to book profit […]

By Staff |January 18, 2013

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U.S. under scrutiny in 2013

All eyes will turn to the U.S. as it struggles to get its fiscal house in order.

By Dean DiSpalatro |January 18, 2013

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