The National Stock Exchange's 50-stock Nifty index fell 1.5% to 5745.95.
Over the past four years he has used E-Trade's once-roaring stock to acquire ever more services, offering the nation's top-yielding certificates of deposit, an asset-management arm and a cut-rate version of the "wrap" accounts invented by old-line brokers.
Over the past four years he has used E-Trade's once-roaring stock to acquire ever more services, offering the nation's top-yielding certificates of deposit, an asset management arm and a cut-rate version of the "wrap" accounts invented by old-line brokers.
But data from the Investment Company Institute, a mutual-fund trade group, show that net U.S.-stock mutual-fund purchases in March have been inconsistent and weak, raising questions about how enthusiastic the public really is.
That can be seen among traditional U.S.-stock mutual funds, typically the domain of smaller investors.
It was the strongest performer on the Standard Poor's 500-stock index on Tuesday, and has gained 95% this year.
The Standard Poor's 500-stock index gained 7.32 points, or 0.6%, to 1285.50 Tuesday.
Apple is the biggest single component of the typical U.S.-stock fund.
"We think they (corporate profits) are going to rise by about 50% over the next twelve months, " said Koll, who also forecasts Japan's Topix -- considered more representative of Japan's stock markets -- will climb to 1, 400 by the end of 2013 -- a rise of nearly 17%.
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In the late 1990s, to demonstrate how the tech-stock mania had infected the entire nation, he began writing about his plumber's stock-market fascination.
On any given day they represent about one-third off all U.S.-listed stock trades.
Of course, the biggest thing bugging Apple fans--at least those who own the company's stock--might be the performance of its shares this year.
One of Thursday's worst-performing stock markets in the region was Hong Kong's, where the Hang Seng Index dropped 2% to 19025.11, dragged down by bank, telecom and consumption stocks.
Citigroup 's (nyse: C - news - people ) Joe Brent is not only StarMine's top-ranked stock picker in the U.K. and Ireland, but this 12-year veteran also holds the No. 2 slot for all of Europe.
"If it's low cost-basis stock, it's not a big deal, " Fahlund explains, because you would pay the 10% penalty on the cost basis, not the current market value of shares.
What's amazing is the fact that America's stock exchanges--supposed bastions of vibrant capitalism--are now so risk-averse, the opposite of the anything-goes attitude of the late 1990s.
The last and most resonant lesson in all this, of course, was last fall's stock-market debacle.
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The Euro is sliding against the dollar and European stock bourses and U.S. stock-index futures fell overnight.
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The bulls clutch their certificates close to their chests, keeping the shares out of the broker's stock-lending department.
Combs and Weschler have said they are fans of Mr. Buffett's stock-picking style.
Thursday's stock-market slump had driven traders around the world to flee equities for the safety of fixed income investments.
TBS's main motive is to find out more both about European consumers and about the digital communications hardware that is Philips's stock-in-trade.
That would make a U.S.-based stock index, such as the broad-market Russell 3000, an appropriate measuring stick for the fund, Mr. Gogerty says.
In Japan, Goldman has taken a 43% share of Tokyo's electronic stock-options market by attaching Hull's complex pricing models to its own know-how.
Investment and tourism from the Gulf have restored some confidence in battered Lebanon, pushing Beirut's long-stagnant stock index up by 38% since December.
The investment world has been so eager for a Facebook IPO, it has spurred active trading in shares of Facebook's still-private stock in secondary markets.
Heckmann bought most companies with US Filter's high-price stock, diluting earnings per share and masking the fact that most bottom-line growth was coming from acquisitions.
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