Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Jan. 25, 2013 6:18 p.m. ET Imagine your broker says you just bought Apple stock for more than $700 a share, even though this week’s collapse drove the price below $440. Now imagine being told you got this bum deal through the back door by purchasing debt issued by an entirely different...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | Jan. 4, 2013 5:48 p.m. ET Happy New Year, investors. Enjoy those gains that your portfolios earned this past week. Just don’t extrapolate them. This past Wednesday, the first trading day of 2013, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index jumped 2.5% after the White House and Congress agreed on a...
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