 Personal Finance Daily FEBRUARY 08, 2012 Wednesday's Personal Finance StoriesBy MarketWatch
— Anne Stanley , Managing Editor, Personal Finance. A special invitation Interested in bonds and other fixed-income investments? Planning to be in New York next week? You're invited to a free MarketWatch Investing Insights event, "Bond Bulls Stirred, Not Shaken." The event includes an evening of cocktails and conversation from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15 in New York. MarketWatch Editor-in-Chief David Callaway will host a panel discussion with guests Lee Munson, founder and chief investment officer of Portfolio asset management firm; Bill O'Donnell, head of Treasury strategy at RBS Securities; and Barry Ritholtz, CEO and director of equity research at Fusion IQ. To attend this free event, please RSVP with your name and contact information in an email to MarketWatchevent@wsj.com by Monday, Feb. 13. Ready to bet on small-company growth stocks? As the economy starts to show signs of expansion, it's time to look closely at stocks likely to benefit, specifically small company growth stocks. Read more: Ready to bet on small-company growth stocks? How food fads can nourish a start-up U.S. sales of gluten-free products, rising at 30 percent a year, will reach $5 billion in three years, says market researcher Packaged Facts. And those sales go well beyond the 3 million Americans who have a bad physical reaction to gluten, the protein found in wheat — they also reflect yet another turn in our endless cycle of food trends. Read more: How food fads can nourish a start-up. INVESTING Yields trump capital gains At this investment moment, dividend strategies are working, writes Peter Brimelow. Read more: Yields trump capital gains. Global equity ETFs are vacuuming up cash Investment flows into global equity ETFs have surged so far this year, according to research from TrimTabs. Through Feb. 3, global equity ETFs sucked up $7.6 billion, that's compared with $9.9 billion for ALL of 2011. Read more about global equity ETFs in our markets blog, The Tell. ECONOMY AND POLITICS Greek bailout hopes rise amid ECB concession Hopes that Greece will finally strike a deal with its international creditors are buoyed after the European Central Bank reportedly agrees to forgo profits on its holdings of Greek government bonds. Read more: Greek bailout hopes rise amid ECB concession. China to help first-time home buyers China's central bank pledges to support first-time home buyers, marking the first notable softening in tone towards the real-estate sector since a clampdown on prices that began in mid-2010. Read more: China to help first-time home buyers. Santorum's trifecta sends Romney reeling Rick Santorum's presidential campaign gets adrenaline shot Tuesday as former Pennsylvania senator scores a trifecta of wins in Missouri's Republican primary and caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado Read more: Santorum's trifecta sends Romney reeling. Get the latest news on our mobile site: http://www.marketwatch.com/m  MarketWatch has sent you this newsletter because you signed up to receive it. To ensure you receive this newsletter in the future, please add marketwatchmail.com to your list of approved senders. Sent to: kumaresan.selva.blogger@gmail.com Unsubscribe | Subscribe Copyright 2012 MarketWatch, Inc. All rights reserved. MarketWatch, the MarketWatch logo, and BigCharts are registered trademarks of MarketWatch, Inc. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy (updated 6/26/07). MarketWatch - Attn: Customer Service, 201 California St., San Francisco, CA 94111 |
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Personal Finance Daily: Small-cap growth stocks for big gains
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