Photo credit: John Schnelder, Flickr Creative Commons By Jason Zweig | March 31, 2015 10 p.m. ET Here is the speech Benjamin Graham gave in San Francisco one week before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. In this brilliant presentation, Graham explores how an investor should go about determining whether the market is overvalued, how to tell which asset...
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Image Credit: Christophe Vorlet By Jason Zweig | 11:41 am ET Mar. 27, 2015 After more than six years of a bull market, investors should stare a cold, hard truth straight in the face: Future returns on stocks are likely to be far slimmer than the fat gains of the past few years. Leading investment analysts think you will be lucky to squeeze out an average...
Read MoreImage credit: Genetically modified Amflora cells, BASF, flickr Creative Commons By Jason Zweig 11:17 am ET Mar. 27, 2015 In a research note out today, Credit Suisse analysts Ravi Mehrotra, Jason Kantor, Anuj Shah and Jeremiah Shepard write that biotechnology stocks are not in a bubble but “rather in a new era,” evolving from “Biotech 1.0 to Biotech 2.0.”...
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Image credit: Wall Street subway mosaic, Michael Daddino, flickr Creative Commons By Jason Zweig 1:31 pm ET Mar. 25, 2015 The controversy surrounding whether stockbrokers and other securities salespeople should be subject to a “fiduciary standard” is heating up. The latest development: A report released Wednesday by the Public Investors Arbitration Bar...
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Image credit: “The Daily Boom,” John S. Pughe, cartoon, from Puck, vol. 511 (May 14, 1902): “The promoter waters the stock, the newspaper booms it (for a consideration) and the silly public buys it — after which the water is squeezed out.” Library of Congress By Jason Zweig March 24, 2015 6:37 p.m. ET New York City...
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