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What's Hot On TheStreet
Credit Suisse's 18 Best Stock Picks for 2011 Focus List, the top U.S. stock picks of Credit SuisseCS, has outperformed the S&P 500 in each of the past six years. In 2010, an equal-weighting of Credit Suisse's Focus List generated a return of more than 17%, beating the S&P 500's 15% rise. In 2009, Focus List surged 48%, trouncing the S&P 500's 27% advance. Here is a look at picks 18 to 11 on the 2011 list.
New Year's Resolution: Buy U.S.Stocks About $90 billion has been pulled from U.S. stock mutual funds since the "flash crash" on the afternoon of May 6, 2010, according to data from the Investment Company Institute. On that day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the biggest intraday point decline, 998.5 points, in its 114-year history.
Obama May Offer Jobs to Wall Street Execs President Obama has reportedly reached out to Wall Street executives to fill open positions in his cabinet as part of a renewed effort to mend ties with the business community.
Crunching the Costs of New Year's Resolutions New Year's resolutions are made to be broken, not to leave the resolved broke. While there's laudable merit to the actions of 44% of Americans who told the Marist Institute for Public Opinion they'd make a resolution this year, that's down from 48% last year.