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By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Amid growing worries about deflation, or a sustained period of falling prices, some analysts recommend that investors buy bonds, which can do better in that kind of dangerous environment.But interest rates on all kinds of bonds are at such skimpy levels that fixed income may ...Read More

By DAVE KANSAS For the past several months, the stock market has gone on one of its white-knuckle jags. After a reasonably good start to the year, prices started skidding in early May with the so-called Flash Crash punctuating a decline that reached into July.As prices went lower, ...Read More

Where have all the companies gone?The number of U.S. firms with publicly traded stock has dropped by half in the past decade. Ten years ago, around 9,100 companies filed annual proxy statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Last year, roughly 6,450 did; so far in 2010, only ...Read More

From February through May, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 1000 points in an almost uninterrupted daily march upward. Then came the “flash crash” of May 6 and day after day of losses through May. Now, in mid-June, the market has been up six of the ...Read More

Investing, says Seth Klarman, used to be like checkers. Now it’s like chess–a lot more complicated.Mr. Klarman runs Baupost Group, a Boston-based investment firm with about $22 billion under management. For the uninitiated, he’s a conservative value investor and one of the most highly regarded in the market. ...Read More

By IAN SALISBURY Exchange-traded funds don’t appear to have been the cause of the “flash crash” of a week ago. But a disproportionate number of these stock baskets saw trading snarled as a result of it. The day could stand as a blemish on the products’ reputation for ...Read More

The central bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will provide banks with extra liquidity. The news comes days after the state-owned Dubai World said it would ask for an extension on repaying its debts, sending world stock markets tumbling. The move appeared designed to ...Read More

By Leah Schnurr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai, jobs data, Black Friday results and a chance for Congress to throw fireballs at Fed chief Ben Bernanke: The U.S. stock market’s path to glory is fraught with peril next week. If Dubai’s debt woes intensify and prompt a retreat ...Read More

By DAISY MAXEY (See Corrections & Amplifications below) Investors in supposedly super safe target-date mutual funds took it on the chin like pretty much everybody else as the market collapsed. So why would anyone think about looking to these funds now? While the bear-market performance of many target-date ...Read More

By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fall of more than 10 percent in the average apartment price in Manhattan in the third quarter from a year earlier attracted buyers who pushed up the number of sales by over 45 percent in just one quarter, industry reports ...Read More