More than most, the PR department at Goldman Sachs (GS) must be looking forward to the weekend: It just spent the last few days getting pummeled like Apollo Creed. Today, the hits kept right on comin

A popular prescription in the personal finance domain is to increase or maximize annual contributions to 401(k)s or similar retirement plans. However, one of the best financial decisions I’ve m

Given the choice between immediate gratification and savings for the future, most Americans opted for new Italian loafers or a flat screen TV. Bucking that trend is the recent 6.9% saving rate increa

A 40-year veteran of small-cap investing, Bill Nasgovitz never used to concern himself much with the broader macro picture of the US economy. A dedicated, bottoms-up value investor, Nasgovitz simply

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Almost nothing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarkable rise to wealth was conventional. There were no silver spoons, no Ivy League degrees, no friends in high places.Instead, Adelson became one of t

With the US dollar falling down a precipice, spare a thought for non-US investors invested in US stocks and bonds. The graph below shows the performance of US 10-year Treasury Notes since the beginni

If most Americans had never heard of Wall Street titan Edward Liddy before the financial crisis, they knew his name only too well by the end of last spring.The former CEO of Allstate (ALL) famously c

Editor's Note: This article was written by Richard Suttmeier, chief market strategist at ValuEngine.com, which is a fundamentally-based quant research firm in Princeton, New Jersey, that covers more

From Wall Street to the Great Wall summits are suddenly in fashion. After the S&P 500 climbed to close above 1100 for the first time in over a year and the Dow scaled a fresh 13-month peak, the P