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...past year.) Or consider junk bonds, as measured by Merrill Lynch's High Yield bond index, which yield a jaw-dropping 22%. Of course, junk bonds come from the riskiest borrowers, and a deep recession could drive up the default rate among those companies. But current lofty yields imply investor expectations that one-fifth of these bonds will default, according to Moody's, even though the recent default rate in this sector has been around 3%. Notes Kirk Hartman, chief investment officer for Wells Capital Management, a division of Wells Fargo bank: "Spreads [over Treasuries] in the bond market...
Here's one change that every investor in America would like this year. Typically, investment losses, when it comes to taxes, can be deducted only against investment gains. The tax you pay on regular income is not affected. And that's generally true for individuals as well as corporations, unless of course investing is your...
...Larry Langford, 60, and two others were arrested, as part of a 101-count federal indictment, on charges of bribery, conspiracy and money-laundering. All three have pleaded not guilty. Langford is accused of accepting bribes while serving as county commissioner in exchange for steering bond deals to an investor...
...solid management. With reopened funds, it's especially important to make sure the people making the investment decisions are the same ones who created the great track record that made the fund so admired in the first place. The Sequoia Fund, for example, was long run by the legendary investor Bill Ruane, but he died...
...subprime debacle, we're already 16 months into this mess; we're at least four months into what could be the most serious and worrisome phase of the downturn. So the clock is ticking. Yes, there will be more bankruptcies and bailouts and job cuts. Yet no less an investor than Warren Buffett is making stock investments now, planning to be there for the long haul. The stock market is closely tied to the economy, even though the two often run in very different directions. The market is always looking ahead six to nine months and is a gauge...