Wealth Think

How are market conditions? Where are things headed? It all depends on who you listen to and whose surveys you trust.

In short, there has never been a more important time to proactively manage our businesses.

Ken Fisher of Fisher Investments chatted with us about the economy and actually found a silver lining in the market.

Just when branch managers thought their jobs couldn’t get any more complicated, Mary Schapiro says that her agency is looking at regulating broker pay.

A couple of interesting surveys were released this week—and when mixed with some anecdotal evidence, they offer advisors some food for thought.

There is an extra wrinkle of complexity this year as the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year. Many members of Congress have expressed support for extending these tax cuts to some, if not all, taxpayers either temporarily or permanently. Without Congressional action, tax rates will rise to as high as 39.6% on ordinary income and 20% on capital gains.

The Republicans rule the House now and all signs show that they can’t wait to make their mark on financial regulatory reform—if they can.

It sounds like the name of an honored Transatlantic ship, but this time the QE2 stands for the Federal Reserve Board’s second attempt at an economic stimulus with the name Quantitative Easing. Will this new round help keep the economy afloat and chugging toward an expansion?

Fund will buy the stocks of companies that make much of our modern high-tech lives possible.

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