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...Arnott argues that the evidence does indicate that "the common interpretation that stocks should be the core of your portfolio always" is wrong. "The main message I would want to convey to John and Mary Doe investor is, Pay attention to the price you pay for an asset," he says...
...more muted about China's expanding role in the region. Resource-hungry Beijing has steadily made inroads west, tying up lucrative energy contracts in Kazakhstan, while committing tens of million dollars to infrastructure and hydropower projects in impoverished Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. China has also become the single largest investor in Afghanistan, building roads through Kabul and setting up a massive $3 billion copper mine. In 2001, China formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a geo-political grouping aimed at improving economic and political relations with Russia and other Central Asian nations - as well as a vehicle for Beijing to quash...
...signs of economic rebound, consumers might soon feel confident enough to start spending more on everything from summer fashions to new cars and doing it with borrowed money. On June 4, an executive with MasterCard suggested that people were already starting to inch in that direction. Speaking at an investor conference, he said that thus-far unreleased results of the company's monthly spending survey indicate that while people were still spending less, the rate of decline has slowed. MasterCard runs the systems that process credit- and debit-card transactions and can therefore provide a more timely read...
Purely from an investor's standpoint, however, buying tobacco stocks is a solid long-term bet that historically pays regular dividends. "We ultimately have a fiduciary responsibility to our clients," says Towell, who puts about 5% of Northwestern's tobacco equities in index funds...
...Mendillo went out to dinner with her husband to celebrate her fiftieth birthday, only to return home to multiple messages from her HMC team notifying her that they were formulating contingency plans for Lehman Brothers’ collapse—the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history and what many investors see as a seminal event in the financial crisis.Stephen Blyth, who had only been promoted to his post as head of internal management at HMC the week before, says that Oct. 2008 was the most volatile month in the entire history of equity markets. While the markets were already ominous...