An article in Morningstar Magazine examines how some actively managed mutual funds can diminish losses in broader market downturns. […]

Defying the wisdom of forecasters, bond yields have not yet begun their inevitable march upward. […]

The harsh winter wasn’t just our imagination. A report shows just how much bad weather figured into American business activity. […]

Recently released transcripts from Federal Reserve meetings amid the 2008 financial collapse underscore the value of hindsight. […]

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says signs of a slow-moving – even stagnant – U.S. economy indicate that the Federal Reserve may need to keep interest rates low for quite some time. […]

A special report from The Economist notes a stalling in globalization since the 2008 financial collapse. […]

Diversification is important in investing, but investors have to scrutinize what is meant by diversification. […]

More academic and Wall Street economists are looking beyond the current cloudy conditions to forecast sunnier days ahead for the U.S. economy, the New York Times reports. […]

Recent articles in other publications, including the trade publication Financial Advisor, also cite relatively low prices on stocks, even as broad indexes have hit record highs. […]

The upshot of an expert panel discussion recounted by Marketwatch is that investors are wise to keep some stocks in their portfolios and to not let politics or market swings throw them off balance. […]

In Barrons, a Wall Street chief investment officer ticks off 15 reasons to be optimistic about the U.S. economy, regardless of looming setbacks from the fiscal cliff, which he sees as merely a “molehill.”
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Recent reports of underwhelming economic data aside, many forecasters still see an encouraging bounce in the step of the U.S. economy. […]