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Bill Gross: Get used to stunted returns
Bond king Bill Gross says it's time for individual investors to get used to a new (and slower) dance.
In his monthly investment outlook letter, the founder of Pimco and manager of the world's largest bond fund, Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTRX), wrote that the age of credit expansion that led to double-digit portfolio returns is over, and the age of inflation has begun.
And that means investment returns from both stocks and MORE
Hibah Yousuf - Sep 5, 2012 2:07 PM ET -
Bill Gross: Paul Ryan not good for bond market
The world's largest bond investor took to Twitter Monday to air his gripes about Paul Ryan, the newly chosen Republican vice presidential candidate.
GROSS: Do bond markets take heart from Ryan selection? Not me. He talks lower deficits but really believes in lower taxes — exact opposite.— (@PIMCO) August 13, 2012
The comments from Bill Gross, founder of investing firm Pimco, show the challenges that Ryan may face when trying to MORE
Hibah Yousuf - Aug 13, 2012 3:58 PM ETPosted in: barack obama, bill gross, bonds, deficit, fiscal cliff, investment, mitt romney, Paul Ryan, pimco, president, tax cuts, taxes, treasuries, Wall Street -
Investors yank $5.7 billion from U.S. stocks - most in 10 weeks
The flight out of U.S. stocks picked up speed last week, as investors were left disappointed by the Federal Reserve's failure to take steps to stimulate the economy.
Investors yanked $5.7 billion out of U.S. stock mutual funds during the week ended Aug. 1, more than twice the amount pulled during the prior week, and the most since the week ended May 23. The outflow was also the fourth-biggest this year.
Investors MORE
Hibah Yousuf - Aug 9, 2012 9:31 AM ET -
Quarterly earnings: Not that great, about to get worse
Despite a stubbornly slow economic recovery at home and severe headwinds from Europe and Asia, U.S. companies are on track to deliver a tenth straight quarter of rising profits. But a closer look reveals some alarming trends.
With reports from more than 80% of the S&P 500 companies on the books, earnings are on pace to grow just 0.6% during the second quarter, the slowest since the third quarter of MORE
Hibah Yousuf - Aug 7, 2012 8:10 AM ETPosted in: earnings, estimates, forecast, outlook, revenue, s&p 500, second quarter, third quarter, Wall Street -
Investors still running away from stocks
Investors recently dipped a toe back in the stock market, but the water was apparently not fine.
According to the latest report on mutual fund flows from the Investment Company Institute, investors pulled $2.1 billion out of U.S. stock mutual funds during the week ended July 25. That came after modest inflows of $99 million during the prior week.
Overall, investors have been taking money out of domestic stock mutual funds for MORE
Ben Rooney - Aug 2, 2012 12:57 PM ET -
ETF assets grow to $1.1 trillion
Investors' appetite for ETFs continues to grow.
As of May 31, the U.S. ETF industry had over $1.1 trillion in assets under management, spread across 1,251 funds, according to data from State Street.
ETF inflows totaled more than $60 billion during the first five months of 2012. The Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) had $8.1 billion in inflows, making it the most popular ETF so far this year. Running a close MORE
Ben Rooney - Jul 11, 2012 4:48 PM ET -
Facebook's tailspin continues
It was supposed to be the IPO of the year, but Facebook's (FB) performance as a publicly traded company has been, in a word, disappointing.
Shares of the social network continued to fall Tuesday, dropping another 3.6% to end at $25.87. The stock is down 32% from its May 18 offering price of $38.
There were issues with Facebook's IPO from the start, when technical problems on the Nasdaq delayed its launch. MORE
Ben Rooney - Jun 5, 2012 5:31 PM ET -
Investors run for cover as fear intensifies
If you thought last week was bad, it's just gotten a lot worse.
A series of disappointing manufacturing reports were topped off Friday with dismal jobs numbers that showed a paltry 69,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in May.
Related: Behind the jobs report
If that's not enough to give you agita, the yield on the 10-year note tumbled to a record low of 1.46% today. It's not MORE
Catherine Tymkiw - Jun 1, 2012 2:35 PM ETPosted in: calls, cnnmoney, fear, Fear & Greed, gold, investor, outflows, puts, stocks, treasuries, Wall Street -
Facebook IPO: Outraged investor cries grow louder
So it's been a week since Facebook (FB) went public and investors are getting angrier by the day. As Wall Street's losses mount, it's the smaller investors who want Facebook to 'show them the money!,' to quote Rod Tidwell (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) in Jerry Maguire.
"I think we were all lied to and deceived about the value of FB from the very beginging (sic) and that something should be MORE
Catherine Tymkiw - May 25, 2012 3:29 PM ET
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