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Barron's Cover
Dyan Machan
In his six years as head of brokerage Charles Schwab, Bettinger has doubled client assets to $2.4 trillion. He’s only getting started.
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Up & Down Wall St.
Randall W. Forsyth
Stocks have best week in nearly two years, despite backdrop of trouble throughout the world.
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Streetwise
Ben Levisohn
The market typically grows agitated before the midterm elections but rallies smartly for months thereafter. This time, trouble abroad could limit gains at home.
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Feature
Andrew Bary
Weak prices for oil and natural gas have bashed energy stocks so much that some look cheap.
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Feature
Jack Hough
Investors are losing patience with Amazon.com’s losses. Nor does it help that revenue growth is slowing.
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Profile
Michael Shari
Strongly performing hedge fund FrontFour Capital used the recent selloff in energy stocks to buy some more. Here are some of its picks.
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Interview
Reshma Kapadia
The CEO of Marketfield Asset Management, is upbeat on the U.S. economy and on industrial stocks.
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Feature
Alexander Eule
Apple Pay further locks in the position of Visa and MasterCard, the world’s top payment networks.
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Barron's Penta
Robert Milburn
Private bankers at Abbot Downing compile clients’ family histories. The results are illuminating, as the Zaslows of ATD-American found out.
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The Best Advice
Steve Garmhausen
Merrill Lynch advisors Kristina Van Liew and Linda Stephans help investors leave a mark on society.
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Editorial Commentary
Thomas G. Donlan
There’s big money at stake in political speech, and in silencing it.
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The Trader
Vito J. Racanelli
Improving economic sentiment and solid U.S. earnings reports helped to erase the previous week’s losses and lift markets around the world.
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International Trader - Europe
Lawrence C. Strauss
More risk, less diversification can spell trouble for individual investors.
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International Trader - Asia
Shuli Ren
China’s largest search engine operator has adapted to smartphones while its competitor hasn’t.
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The Striking Price
Steven M. Sears
A “risk-reversal” strategy can pay off when volatility rules.
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Current Yield
Michael Aneiro
Market timing is particularly perilous as good investment opportunities are particularly fleeting with the end of quantitative easing.
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Emerging Markets
Dimitra DeFotis
Some sophisticated hedge funds see an opportunity as the political leadership changes in 2015. It’s much too early for most investors.
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Commodities Corner
Alexandra Wexler
China’s decision to slash imports will worsen the biggest glut of the fiber in history. U.S. farmers can only delay selling so long.
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D.C. Current
Jim McTague
Many congressional portfolios look like they could use extreme makeovers.
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Economic Beat
Gene Epstein
Applied Global Macro Research’s Carsten Valgreen, who tracks the market with data that track the broad economy, sees stocks rising 5% to 8% annually over next three years.
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Technology Trader
Tiernan Ray
Good earnings news from Seagate and KLA. Pandora, not so much.
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Electronic Investor
Mike Hogan
Sometimes the best opportunities are right in front of investors’ eyes–like earlier-than-usual earnings calls and corporate spinoffs.
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Fund of Information
Lawrence C. Strauss
One hope for the industry: mutual funds that invest in hedge funds.
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ETF Focus
Lewis Braham
By weighting its bets on factors other than just size, Sprott Gold Miners improves chances for gains.
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Speaking of Dividends
Shirley A. Lazo
Dividends and buybacks sweetened yields for holders of AbbVie, PulteGroup, Parker Hannifin and Hubbell.
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Gadget of the Week
Alexander Eule
The iPhone 6 has a new app designed to foil hackers bent on stealing your credit-card data.
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Review
Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
Experts weigh in on what investors should expect from Facebook’s earnings report.
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Preview
Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
A recent study of academics’ theories of how to beat the market shows that most are about as accurate as a Ouija board.
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Follow Up
Convergent Wealth Advisors’ David Zier found dead after apparent irregularities are discovered in a fund he ran outside the firm.