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| | By Angela Moon, Reuters, 12/30/2011 |
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For the U.S. stock market, 2011 was a long wild ride to nowhere.
The broad S&P 500 endured huge daily swings but a year of drama left the index almost where it started. It lost a mere 0.003 percent, closest to unchanged since 1947, according to Standard & Poor's.
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| | By Lara Hoffmans, Forbes, 12/30/2011 |
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By no mean exhaustive, but here’s a wrap-up of some of the bigger news stories in 2011.
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| | By Fisher Investments, Real Clear Markets, 12/23/2011 |
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Is fracking environmentally safe? That's a key question surrounding the fast-growing method of gas and oil extraction-and one that's triggered debate since the process became more economically viable.
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| | By Fisher Investments, iStockAnalyst, 12/22/2011 |
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While many seem focused on what is widely thought a beleaguered American shopper, US consumers, overall, are seemingly doing just fine. For example, continued improvements in household credit trends, highlight how US consumers aren't down for the count. What's more, holiday spending patterns are a great example of how bad consumer spending isn't.
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| | By Fisher Investments, The Street, 12/22/2011 |
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Is fracking environmentally safe? That's a key question surrounding the fast-growing method of gas and oil extraction -- and one that's triggered debate since the process became more economically viable.
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| | By Lara Hoffmans, Forbes, 12/22/2011 |
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Here’s something that didn’t happen this year—a US double dip. (Nor was there a global one.) However, some warn we’re not out of the woods: We could see a double-dip second leg in 2013.
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| | By Ken Fisher, Forbes, 12/19/2011 |
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I recently returned from FORBES’ “Cruise for Investors,” with ports of call in Greece, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey. Even more intriguing than the places we visited was the feedback I got from the 96 cruisers attending. Most of these folks are affluent, postretirement and either married or widowed. They can afford the finer things in life and have a good deal of free time on their hands. All were loyal FORBES readers, real Capitalist Tools.
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Markets Never Forget is among the top-selling business hardcovers for the third straight week.
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| | By Fisher Investments, The Street, 12/15/2011 |
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China's slower economic growth is just one of many things weighing on investors' minds in 2011, and some posit a Chinese hard landing is in store in 2012. However, our analysis finds a re-acceleration far likelier.
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| | By Lara Hoffmans, Forbes, 12/14/2011 |
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Good news, Maryland. Or rather, good news, Maryland?
The state has decided to focus effort (and money) on helping fund Maryland-based start-up firms. Now, the intention is likely to increase the tax base by goading new business development. And the jobs that come with it! A laudable goal, to be sure. But one might ask, who will determine where to invest capital to get the best ROI in an inherently risky venture (as all new businesses are)? The government? (Ahem, Solyndra.)
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| | By Fisher Investments, Real Clear Markets, 12/13/2011 |
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What a difference two and a half years make: In May 2009, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh won a landslide reelection on his platform of economic reform, and high hopes drove India's stock market up a whopping 20% the next day. But aside from free trade agreements with South Korea and ASEAN, progress has been limited.
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Research shows economic growth creates new jobs, not the other way around.
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| | By Fisher Investments, The Street, 12/09/2011 |
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Last week's unemployment rate drop gave the economy's bulls and bears alike something to cheer. The bulls pointed to the drop as a clear sign of broad employment improvement. The bears pointed to it as a sign of the still-all-too-high unemployment rate that could tip us into the next recession. But neither analysis is really right.
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| | By Lara Hoffmans, Forbes, 12/08/2011 |
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‘Tis the season to be retrospective—a time to ponder the good things in life, or at least, the things that didn’t go as horribly as feared.
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| | By Ros Krasny, Reuters, 12/05/2011 |
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The United States faces only limited fallout from the euro zone debt crisis and the struggling European economy, a situation that bodes well for U.S. equity markets in 2012, top U.S. money managers said on Monday.
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| | By Herbert Lash, Reuters, 12/05/2011 |
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Billionaire investor Ken Fisher, who last February had turned neutral on stocks, said on Monday he has become very bullish and finds most equity markets attractive.
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Fisher, a long-time Forbes columnist and author of several books on the markets, is particularly bullish, saying he does not expect either Europe or the United States to slip into recession in 2012. Fisher said he prefers European leaders do nothing to deal with the sovereign debt crisis in Italy and Spain because he fears anything they agree to would only make things worse.
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Fisher Investments launched a new blog, Global Market Perspective, offering a look at what’s going on outside the US. The blog covers economic and market-related events, including geopolitical developments and international commerce, as well as interesting topics that can help investors learn about global capital markets.
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New blog offers perspectives on market-related topics and news outside the US
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| | By Jane Wollman Rusoff, Research Magazine, 12/01/2011 |
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Our expert panel sees turbulence — and opportunity — in the year ahead.
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