Topic: Standard & Poor's
Only fools and suckers do nothing but hope that stock prices rise. But too many investors have recently lost too much money doing just that. ....
Warren Buffett believes that most investors, including many professional money managers, would be better served investing in a low cost index fund...
VIX - Market Sentiment. . Friday saw S&P futures trading up decent until the U.S. GDP number came in .2% light of what was expected. Analysts were...
Standard & Poor's plans to review its criteria for evaluating U.S. local-government debt to make the ratings more comparable with grades on other ...
Asian stocks have failed to make much headway Friday after disappointing Japanese corporate earnings and U.S. home sales - considered crucial to an ...
Have we been experiencing "extraordinary tumult" and "startling volatility" in the U.S. stock market? Or is this just the lens through which the ...
James Surowiecki wrote last week about the effect of the volatile market on investors. In a New Yorker article titled Year of the Yo-Yo, he said...
FRIDAY, January 13th, proved unlucky for nine euro-zone countries: they had their credit ratings cut by Standard and Poor's (S&P) soon after the...
THE decision by Standard & Poor's (S&P) to lower the AAA ratings of France and Austria, and to downgrade seven other countries, Italy and Spain...
Catherine Colbert50 (idealistic) brands that outperformed the S&P...