 | | | | The gains of internet-related stocks in recent years have cast a shadow over what a dull but steady income stream from dividends can do for investors. | | | | | | U.S. President Donald Trump may just escape having to grapple with a recession before the U.S. Presidential elections in 2020, with investors saying it is unlikely one will occur before then. | | | | | | U.S. stocks have been battered over the last few weeks but a senior executive at Blackstone Group LP, one of the world's most influential asset managers, said there is no cause to be overly worried about next year. | | | | | | Italian assets have further to fall before prices start to look attractive but the selloff will not trigger 2012-style contagion across the euro zone or require the ECB to step in, NN Investment Partners' chief investment officer said on Tuesday. | | | | | | Emerging market debt is a rare fixed-income class that does not look too expensive, and could be an even more attractive investment if the U.S. dollar weakens, according to Penny Foley, portfolio manager for TCW Group Inc's emerging markets and international equities groups. | | | | | | You do not even have to win on a talent competition show like "American Idol" to launch yourself on a path to selling more than eight million albums. | | | | | | (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) | | | | | | Six weeks of unusual U.S. stock market volatility are not dampening longtime market strategist Richard Bernstein's view that share prices will keep rising, even though the nine-year U.S. economic expansion has reached its late stages. | | | | | |
