Topic: Investment Strategy

The end of a six-decade passion for equities could lead to a less flexible, more conservative model of corporate financing. The FT reports.

Amid all the challenges facing the markets — Greece, Facebook, JPMorgan — investors face an even larger problem: They soon could be running out of safe havens for their money.

Investors looking for bargains bought stocks, oil and gold after they were battered by worries about Europe's debt crisis.

China stocks are set for more rangebound trading on Friday, as investors continued to grapple with global and domestic economic uncertainties.

The euro zone debt crisis will continue to dominate European stocks in 2012, with even well-run companies in danger of being sucked into the morass, according to S&P Capital IQ.

Macau gaming stocks have fallen out of favor, with the major names sliding an average of 20 percent since the beginning of May on worries about a sharp slowdown in gambling revenues. But, according to analysts at Nomura, the correction may be close to an end and the recent drop could present an attractive buying opportunity.

Eurobonds may be hailed by some as a potential solution to the Greek debt crisis, but likely would be met by skepticism in the open market.

Fixed-income investors are once again looking sage-like, as the latest eruption in the EU crisis ravages equities.  Two of these funds are up more than 7 percent.

China stocks may trade lower on Thursday, weighed down by uncertainties about the global economy and China's own fiscal policy response.

Stocks clawed back from steep losses to finish narrowly mixed Wednesday following several reports on the euro zone that helped soothe fears over the region's debt crisis.

Strong demand for Germany’s two-year bonds, which offer nothing in return, shows that opening Pandora’s Box in Europe has sapped investor confidence, Jim O'Neill, chairman at Goldman Sachs Asset Management told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange.”

US stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Wednesday as investor caution replaced hope of a resolution to the euro zone debt crisis ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels.

China is rolling out sweeping brokerage reforms to nurture future global investment banks that officials hope could eventually compete with the likes of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, a regulatory document showed. 

Analysts say China stocks can only extend gains on Wednesday if volume can increase to match.

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