Stock Market

Resisting The Temptation To 'Win' When Investing

Uri Berliner — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:24:00 +0000

NPR's Uri Berliner is taking $5,000 of his own savings and putting it to work. Though he's no financial whiz or guru, he's exploring different types of investments — alternatives that may fare better than staying in a savings account that's not keeping up with inflation.

Deciding how to invest in the stock market can be daunting. That's why I called on someone who's seen it all. Charley Ellis founded Greenwich Associates, a research and consulting firm, and wrote an influential investing book called Winning the Loser's Game. He worked in investment management for 50 years.

Nasdaq Agrees To $10M Penalty For Handling Of Facebook IPO

Mark Memmott — Wed, 29 May 2013 17:55:00 +0000

One year after Facebook's troubled initial public offering, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday that it has "charged Nasdaq with securities laws violations resulting from its poor systems and decision-making ...

College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists

Elizabeth Shogren — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:16:00 +0000

At about 300 colleges across the country, young activists worried about climate change are borrowing a strategy that students successfully used in decades past. In the 1980s, students enraged about South Africa's racist Apartheid regime got their schools to drop stocks in companies that did business with that government. In the 1990s, students pressured their schools to divest Big Tobacco.

This time, the student activists are targeting a mainstay of the economy: large oil and coal companies.

So far only a few small colleges have opted to drop investments in fossil fuel companies.

Dow Jones Average Makes History, Closes Above 15,000

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:08:00 +0000

Transcript

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

NPR's business news begins with the Dow flying high.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

INSKEEP: The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened this morning above 15,000. That's never happened before. Tuesday's record close is the latest milestone in a stock market's recovery from the financial crisis. Analysts say the Fed's efforts to keep interest rates extremely low are a key driver here. Investors have been pouring there money into stocks, because other investments, like treasury bonds and money markets, have been offering hardly any returns.

Dow Jones Closes Above 15,000 For First Time

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:24:00 +0000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 15,000 on Tuesday for the first time in its history.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

"The Dow's push above 15000 comes as investors' confidence in the economic recovery grows. While earnings reports have been lackluster in recent weeks, a strong report on U.S. hiring last Friday helped dispel worries about a slowdown in the economic recovery like the ones the U.S.