NEW YORK (Dow Jones/AP) - Gold prices rose Tuesday in choppy trading, struggling to stay positive as the dollar made some headway against the euro.
June gold rose $7.60 to $699.50 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange in midday trading, while July silver rose 16.5 cents to $13.500 an ounce. Even though the dollar [...]
Understanding the edge enjoyed by people who run pension money can make you a smarter investor in mutual funds.
Are you happy with how well your mutual funds are doing?
Didn’t think so. Over the long run, two-thirds of stock funds deliver less than the market as a whole - a performance most of us can stomach, [...]
The manager of this year’s top stock mutual fund — and only one that’s up in 2008 — explains how to do well in a bear market. Hint: He bought yesterday. How bad is this bear market? Out of thousands of offerings, only one mutual fund focusing on U.S. stocks is up this year. You [...]
In a new sign of market turbulence, managers of a multibillion-dollar money market fund said on Tuesday that customers might lose money in the fund, a type of investment that has long been considered as safe and risk-free as a bank savings account.
The announcement was made by the Primary Fund, which had almost $65 billion [...]