Word: marketeers
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Over the past 30 years, the way we save for retirement has come to be dominated by one plan: the 401(k). But the financial crisis and resulting market meltdown showed the 401(k) to be far from perfect. A number of academics and others have proposed either changes to the 401(k) system or scrapping it altogether. Roger Ferguson Jr., chief executive of the investment firm TIAA-CREF, is one of the few financial executives who have backed changing the system. Ferguson's opinion is sure to have some sway. He is a former vice chairman of the Federal...
...weeks, the stock market had been toying with Dow 10,000, and on Wednesday afternoon it hit it. Considering that the large-company index went as low as 6,547 in March, that feels like cause for celebration. But is it really...
...growing chorus of market watchers says no. The concern is that the stock market is overwrought and that down is the only sensible direction to head. Sure, individual companies have been quick to bounce lower based on bad news. Both insurance outfits and financial firms lost ground on Tuesday thanks to two big events - the passage of a health-reform bill by a key Senate committee and a Goldman Sachs downgrade by an influential banks analyst. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...more inside-baseball indication of being on shaky ground is the fact that even on days when stock prices are rising, few people are trading, making for some fairly thin rallies. "Sellers have entered the market but buyers have stepped away," says Mary Ann Bartels, head of U.S. technical and market analysis at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. "When that happens, we have to question the sustainability of the rally." (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...Another reason to think higher stock prices aren't necessarily in the offing: history. Since the market hit a low in March, it has fairly consistently marched higher, occasionally falling back, but rarely by more than a few percentage points at a time. The last time the market has had such a run without a correction of 10% or more was 1933, says Bartels. Momentum, pleasant though it may be, tends not to last for such long stretches...