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An array of factors -- from the continued hiring increases by firms to higher corporate profit reports -- may be influencing a renewed sense of optimism among investors. In the past, younger and less experienced investors have tended to be ...

There appears to be a major blind spot for many institutional investors and government regulators; many in this group seem to assume that the public’s reduced focus on corporate accounting issues means that the average investor is no longer ...

While two-thirds of investors expect the Fed to raise interest rates over the next three months, only about one-third believe such rate hikes are necessary. Fear of inflation may be influencing those results; three in five investors see ...

Results from the latest UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism survey provide some indication of the extent to which the recent surge in gas prices has affected American investors.

The continuing decline of the world’s reserve currency makes for interesting times in the currency markets, and corporations have largely hedged their currency risks. The extent to which investors might have hedged their currency risks was not ...

Small businesses have always been a driving force in the growth of the U.S. economy and the major source of new job creation. The question for 2004, however, is whether small businesses can not only create their usual number of new jobs, but ...

In June, investor optimism fell to its second-lowest level ever. This drop is a clear sign that many investors doubt their ability to preserve their capital, let along achieve gains. This is obviously bad news for the U.S. economy's immediate ...

The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4% annual rate during the second quarter, which seemingly reconfirms the views of most economists that an economic recovery is already underway. Still, less than half of all American investors describe the current ...

A Gallup Poll analysis of more than 7,000 interviews conducted this year shows that older Americans are more likely than those who are younger to believe that going to war in Iraq was a mistake. Americans who are 70 and older are particularly ...

Female investors became much more optimistic in December, according to the Index of Investor Optimism -- a joint effort of UBS and The Gallup Organization. Overall optimism among female investors surged 42 points in December and now stands at ...