Standard & Poor’s 500 Index

Bloomberg Markets Magazine February edition reported that only 16 large hedge funds – those with more than $1 billion in assets – surpassed the Standard & Poor’s 500 index for the first 10 months of 2013. The S&P gained 25.3 percent, with dividends reinvested. Of the 16 hedge funds that...

There has been debate this year, as always, about whether a ‘Santa Claus rally’ would happen.  In fact, the seasonal anomaly in which abnormally positive returns take place in the market during the month of December has happened 80 percent of the time over the past 20 years. This year, some...

Two recent news stories about Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) continued to unfold Thursday as company shares slid up to 5.3 percent in premarket trading. Closing price Wednesday was $55.57 per share. The first story, reported by Reuters late Wednesday, was that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and a number of banks...

Apollo Group Inc. (Nasdaq: APOL) owns the for-profit University of Phoenix, which operates in 29 of the 30 most populous states. Apollo describes University of Phoenix as "the nation’s largest regionally accredited private university." However, despite years of trying the university has failed to...