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  S&P 500 Closes at Record High, Topping ’07 Mark

  By CHRISTINA REXRODE, Associated Press  |  March 28, 2013

  The S&P 500 closed at a new high, three weeks after the Dow obliterated its own closing record.

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  Lehman’s Lessons: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  September 14, 2012

  The natural human tendency is to think that markets are about money, but a look back at the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers should serve as a reminder that markets are fundamentally about morality.

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  Top 10 Terrible Predictions About Economy

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  November 11, 2011

  On 11/11/11, while the world still exists despite some predictions otherwise, a review by AdvisorOne of 10 terrible predictions about the markets and the economy.

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  Europe’s Creditanstalt Moment—Is It Really 1931 Again?: News Analysis

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  November 10, 2011

  Historians might one day wonder why it was that at exactly the time the European model was crumbling, the U.S. chose to weaken itself with similar policies.

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  A Lost Decade for Advisors?

  By Gerald Burstyn  |  October 26, 2011

  It has been called the “Lost Decade” for stocks, the period from January 2000 to December 2009 that saw the stock market decline for the first time since the decade that started in the 1930s.

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  Finding Value in a Loser’s Game

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  September 30, 2011

  As John Kenneth Galbraith famously pointed out, we have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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  The Perils of Prognostication

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  August 9, 2011

  Strategists from most Wall Street experts predicted 10-12% market growth for 2011 while only two called for minor declines.

• Is This Rally Over?

  By Staff Writer  |  November 25, 2009

  Every major business cycle has winners and losers, leaders and laggards. The players change, the cycles change or reverse, but the concept remains the same.

• Not Cutting Back: J.P. Morgan Private Wealth Management CEO Joe Kenney

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  July 1, 2009

  No doubt Joe Kenney, intent since boyhood on creating a career in financial services, aimed at one day becoming a CEO. Chances are, however, he...

• No Pity Party for Big Banks

  By Nancy R. Mandell  |  May 13, 2009

  Study finds predatory lending originated in the same banks that received bailouts. At least 21 of top 25 subprime lenders received bailouts through ownership, credit agreements or purchases of loans for securitization.