U.S. stock mutual funds with the biggest losses in the past 10 years, a list topped by Fidelity Growth Strategies and Vanguard U.S. Growth, were crushed by the market sell-off at the start of the decade and never recovered. The Fidelity fund fell 67 percent and Vanguard’s lost 50 percent, according to data from Morningstar [...]

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Indonesia’s rupiah posted its biggest annual advance in seven years as signs the global economy is recovering from the recession encouraged overseas investors to return to emerging-market assets. The currency climbed 16 percent in 2009, Asia’s best performer ahead of the South Korean won. Funds based abroad bought $1.4 billion more Indonesian stocks than they [...]

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Even the most practiced soothsayer will struggle to make any detailed predictions for the next 10 years. It’s hard enough to know what will happen in the markets in January 2010, never mind December 2019. The main thing investors need to know about the coming decade can be summed up in one of those pithy [...]

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No one can complain that the last two years have been light on drama. We had the worst financial crash in living memory, and some of the biggest banks in the world effectively came under state control. Unless Tiger Woods is voted Husband of the Year, it is hard to see how 2010 can offer [...]

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Treasuries were the worst performing sovereign debt market in 2009 as the U.S. sold $2.1 trillion of notes and bonds to fund extraordinary efforts to bolster the economy and financial markets. Investors in U.S. debt lost 3.5 percent on average through Dec. 30, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes, the biggest annual slide [...]

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Citigroup Inc., Marshall & Ilsley Corp. and Huntington Bancshares Inc. ended 2009 with the biggest drops in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, weighed down by defaulting property loans that may add to their declines this year. Marshall & Ilsley tumbled 60 percent, the index’s biggest drop, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Huntington Bancsharesfell [...]

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Analyst says confidence is not back, investors are cashing out from equities to invest in bond markets. PARIS – After a dismal 2008, world stockmarkets recorded a spectacular rebound in 2009 even though the economy was in crisis, but confidence had not been completely restored and there were fears for 2010. In Frankfurt, the market [...]

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US central bank may unwind unconventional monetary policy to help jolt economy from prolonged recession. -AFP NEW YORK – Wall Street enters the first trading week of 2010 on a bullish note but the market remains dogged by concerns on the timing of any interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve amid economy recovery. The [...]

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