Gail Marks Jarvis

Love it or leave it ... or play the wallflower. The wallflower role has been the preferred stance in the stock market this year. Investors have been willing to hang...

If you've had money in the average fund that invests in large-company stocks, you've made about 1.4 percent this year. But if you're enamored with the edgy, smaller companies that...

The magic pill that's supposed to put zip in the economy is known as capex — meaning a surge of capital expenditures by businesses on equipment, property and buildings. Economists...

It's a typical reaction: You don't think you have the slightest idea how to invest your money for your future, so you figure you'll go to an expert and get...

What do bond investors know that stock investors don't? The two types of investors seem to have very different views of the near future, leading analysts to ponder who's right....

After going through the grueling process of applying for college, writing essays, keeping high school grades up and trying to boost ACT and SAT scores, high school seniors and their...

Now you see it; now you don't. Some of the magical gains of the beloved stocks and sectors of the market — like LinkedIn, Tesla Motors and biotechnology companies —...

You have only a few more days to open an individual retirement account for the 2013 tax year, and you should, because the earlier in life you save for retirement,...