 | | | | Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, is forecasting "significantly weaker, near-recession-level growth" next year. | | | | | | Investors fled U.S.-based stock funds in the latest week, setting those investments up for their biggest month of withdrawals on record, Lipper data showed on Thursday. | | | | | | Ai-jen Poo wants to transform caregiving into real work. | | | | | | In a sign of precious metals demand, sales of U.S. Mint American Eagle gold and silver coins are closing out their weakest year since 2007, as investors favored higher-yielding assets, despite volatility in global stock and bond markets late in the year. | | | | | | There is no more mistletoe hanging above the markets. | | | | | | A U.S. financial regulator on Thursday fined security brokerage Merrill Lynch, a unit of Bank of America, $5.5 million for improperly selling shares in initial public offerings (IPOs) to industry insiders. | | | | | | Spooked by another worldwide stocks selloff, global investors have piled up cash to a more than two-year high this month, hoovered up bonds and cut back property holdings. | | | | | | U.S. fund investors stripped the most cash from U.S.-based mutual funds in more than three years in the latest week, Investment Company Institute (ICI) data showed on Wednesday, as concern mounted about interest rates and economic growth. | | | | | |
