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The recession proved to be grueling for most businesses, but the financial services industry took an especially brutal hit. Massive layoffs, government bailouts, negative headlines and countless scandals damaged the public's perception of some of the biggest finance firms.
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Ken Fisher, CEO of Fisher Investments and 27-year Forbes columnist, recently announced an upcoming new book due November 2011 from John Wiley and Sons: Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Costs You--and Why This Time Isn't Different
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| | iStockAnalyst, 07/19/2011 |
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Italy took a step forward Thursday, as its Senate passed a €40 billion austerity bill with a 26-vote margin. The bill hits parliament's lower house Friday, and with all sides vocally unified on austerity it seems likely to pass.
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| | By Ken Fisher, Forbes, 07/18/2011 |
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As bull markets pick up steam many investors fall prey to what I call the "morphing fear phenomenon." It's a subset of the legendary "wall of worry" that bull markets love to climb. In any bear market something frightens us-- whether justified or not--and recessions always do. Early in the subsequent bull market and expansion we keep expecting these worries to appear. If they don't, we morph fresh scary fantasies that seem like new problems but are simply manifestations of old fears.
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| | By Fisher Investments, Real Clear Markets, 07/18/2011 |
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High unemployment remains a major headline grabber-with the implication that ongoing high unemployment (which even ticked up with the last BLS release) is a material economic negative.
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Fisher Investments’ books are becoming available in various e-reader formats.
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Retail Sales Trounced Expectations in June--Even Though Consumers Said They'd Spend Less
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Fisher Investments plans to maintain hiring as the firm experiences continued growth. Opportunities are available in its Washington and California offices.
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| | iStockAnalyst, 07/15/2011 |
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Misperceptions about global trade and currency prices abound—yet another recent example surrounds China's artificially low-priced yuan and corresponding large trade surplus.
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| | By Fisher Investments, Real Clear Markets, 07/11/2011 |
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With most new technologies, especially energy sources, comes debate between those excited by the potential and those fearful of possibly harmful ramifications or overstatement of the future scale. In our perusal of recent major news publications, Fisher Investments MarketMinder sees a timely example in the debate between major news publications surrounding shale gas extraction.
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Ross Stores' ROST third-quarter earnings were in line with our expectations and we are sticking with our fair value estimate of $26 a share.
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| | iStockAnalyst, 07/08/2011 |
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The US and Mexican governments reached an agreement Wednesday to lift tariffs and a ban against Mexican truck deliveries in the US—Fisher Investments believes this is another win for free trade and both countries.
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On July 16, Forbes magazine's Portfolio Strategy columnist Ken Fisher will mark his 27th year writing his column.
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Fisher Investments, a leading, independent investment management company, recently announced it is nearing completion of the first phase of a new office complex located in Camas, Washington.
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Tomorrow Fisher Investments will release an executive summary preview of its upcoming Third Quarter 2011 Stock Market Outlook, which the firm regularly publishes for investors interested in learning about its most recent market views.
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