Articles Archive for July 2012
Taking Stock »
“It’s almost as important, or more important, to figure out if a company or a stock that you own is in an ETF and if that ETF is getting flows; because the likelihood of that stock’s performance over the next three to five years is going to be much more about whether or not it’s in the right ETF, almost as much so, of if in fact they’re delivering the earnings. – CNBC‘s Gary Kaminsky looks at trends in capital markets and why investors should know how much of their …
Risky Business, Taking Stock »
Washington (CNN) – It was a rare show of bipartisanship – President Barack Obama, flanked by Democrats and Republicans in April, signing into law a bill that would ban insider trading on Capitol Hill. The measure, known as the STOCK Act, had passed the House and Senate at warp speed.
“The powerful shouldn’t get to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else,” the president said at the time.
Lawmakers proclaimed that the bill, officially called the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, would restore …
