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...mention more locally--on Wall Street. Marvel stock has leaped to $20 a share, from $1 in 2000. The films it produces with studio partners have grossed $3.6 billion. Licensing deals for its 5,000 characters, including Spider-Man and the X-Men, are worth $5 billion in retail sales. Next year could be even better, with Sony's release of Ghost Rider and Spider...
That tumult has some analysts thinking Marvel is prepping itself for sale. "These are guys who'd be squeezed out by a merger," says Jefferies & Co. analyst Robert Routh, who owns Marvel stock. "A major move would make sense by the year...
...investment world has turned upside down in recent months: the housing market and economy are slowing, stocks have been sinking, bond yields may be peaking, and after 17 consecutive rate hikes, the Federal Reserve seems all but done. Should your strategy be flipped as well? This is no time to sit on your thumbs, sticking with the same old industrial and commodity stocks that have done so well for so long but have slumped recently. You may also be overexposed to the stock of small companies, which until a few months ago had been scorching hot. Bonds have been...
...sitting on the beach earning 5% and just not worrying for a few months," says Tony Proctor, president of money-management firm Proctor Financial. He is raising the money-fund portion of all five of his model portfolios, citing worries over rising oil prices, a slowing economy, the summer stock-market doldrums and soaring tensions in the Middle East...
...Notzon, chairman of the asset-allocation committee at fund company T. Rowe Price, loves cash for the next few months and, he concedes, "We're not in love with the stock market." Yet he's holding minimal cash and boosting his exposure to stocks. Why? He's thinking long term, and after a slide, stocks have become more attractive. When it's clear the Fed is finally done boosting rates (which it may be even now), the market could rally...