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    Barron's Most Emailed This Month

  • What JPMorgan Isn't Saying -- Returns Are Lousy

    15 May 2012 | 9:55 am
    The need for income in a low-yield world may have produced a $2 billion loss for the bank.

  • Sex or Sleep?

    14 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    Sales of memory-foam mattresses have skyrocketed to almost 20% of the mattress market. They induce a blissful snooze but make sex a challenge.

  • Mad About Facebook!

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Investor frenzy continues to grow, with the IPO imminent. But those who climb aboard now may be setting themselves up for disappointment.

  • Stocks Are Primed for an Ugly Slide

    9 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    The market is flirting with a serious breakdown. Get ready for the possibility of a cruel summer.

  • The Right Spin on Phillips

    7 May 2012 | 2:03 pm
    Investors are pricing it like a refining company, overlooking the rich returns from its chemical and energy-transportation businesses.
 
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    Barron's Most Viewed This Week

  • Is JPMorgan a Buy?

    15 May 2012 | 3:50 pm
    The bank's stock and CEO Jamie Dimon have lost considerable sparkle due to a massive $2 billion trading loss.

  • Sex or Sleep?

    14 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    Sales of memory-foam mattresses have skyrocketed to almost 20% of the mattress market. They induce a blissful snooze but make sex a challenge.

  • Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard Are Good Bets

    14 May 2012 | 1:46 pm
    Charles Pohl and Diana Strandberg focus on stock price, trying to find companies that can overcome skeptical markets. Their choices include Barclays and Hewlett-Packard.

  • Vulnerable Dragon

    14 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    A consideration of Jamie Dimon's and JPMorgan Chase's debacle with a supposed hedge transaction. Also, the dark visage under China's smiling, prosperous image.

  • Mad About Facebook!

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Investor frenzy continues to grow, with the IPO imminent. But those who climb aboard now may be setting themselves up for disappointment.
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    Barron's Most Viewed Month

  • Sex or Sleep?

    14 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    Sales of memory-foam mattresses have skyrocketed to almost 20% of the mattress market. They induce a blissful snooze but make sex a challenge.

  • Mad About Facebook!

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Investor frenzy continues to grow, with the IPO imminent. But those who climb aboard now may be setting themselves up for disappointment.

  • Bravo to the Best!

    11 May 2012 | 6:02 pm
    CF Industries, Apple, Intel, Qualcomm and MetLife all shine in this year's exclusive Barron's ranking that honors strong financial performance. Plus, a look at some potential winners.

  • Stocks Are Primed for an Ugly Slide

    9 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    The market is flirting with a serious breakdown. Get ready for the possibility of a cruel summer.

  • On the Runway, Ready for Takeoff

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    After years of painful bankruptcies and consolidation, the airline industry is poised to become a comfortable oligopoly. The biggest beneficiary will likely be United Continental.
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    Barron's Funds/Q&A

  • Like Father, Like Son

    15 May 2012 | 3:57 pm
    Oak Associates founder Jim Oelschlager at first balked at having son Mark work at the firm, but later changed his mind. And now Mark's stewardship of three funds has shown that there's little risk the father will have to fire his offspring.

  • Seeking Large Returns From Mid-Cap Stocks

    15 May 2012 | 8:51 am
    Scout Funds' Patrick Dunkerley has been buying AutoZone, KeyCorp and a generous helping of insurance stocks.

  • Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard Are Good Bets

    14 May 2012 | 1:46 pm
    Charles Pohl and Diana Strandberg focus on stock price, trying to find companies that can overcome skeptical markets. Their choices include Barclays and Hewlett-Packard.

  • As Goes ISS, So Goes the Fund Industry

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Institutional Shareholder Services has enormous sway over the fund industry when it comes to voting their shares. Rejecting CEO pay at Citigroup; ousting a director at the NYSE.

  • Exodus From Europe's ETFs

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    The iShares MSCI Spain Index Fund is down 19% on the year, worse than even Greece. How to buy into Europe's strongest economies while avoiding the weaklings.
 
 
 
 
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    Barron's Cover Story

  • Sex or Sleep?

    14 May 2012 | 3:15 pm
    Sales of memory-foam mattresses have skyrocketed to almost 20% of the mattress market. They induce a blissful snooze but make sex a challenge.

  • Bravo to the Best!

    11 May 2012 | 6:02 pm
    CF Industries, Apple, Intel, Qualcomm and MetLife all shine in this year's exclusive Barron's ranking that honors strong financial performance. Plus, a look at some potential winners.

  • Shake Up the Dow!

    3 May 2012 | 11:54 pm
    The venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average is at risk of becoming irrelevant if it doesn't find a way to admit Apple and Google. Among the companies that could get the boot: Hewlett-Packard, Alcoa and Bank of America.

  • Reason to Cheer

    27 Apr 2012 | 7:05 am
    America's portfolio managers see more gains for stocks in our latest Big Money poll. They are wary of bonds, hopeful about the economy and predict that President Obama will be re-elected.

  • What a Drag!

    20 Apr 2012 | 12:47 pm
    At $1 trillion and climbing, the growing student-loan debt could be a burden on economic growth for decades to come.
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    Barron's Features

  • Bluer Skies for Brazil's Embraer

    14 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    The Brazilian aircraft maker is No. 3 in the market, and a smart play on rising demand for regional jets. Near-term turbulence, long-term opportunity.

  • Mad About Facebook!

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Investor frenzy continues to grow, with the IPO imminent. But those who climb aboard now may be setting themselves up for disappointment.

  • Where Beauty Is Skin Deep

    14 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    Shares of health-products marketers Herbalife and Nu Skin have gotten hammered of late. Our analysis suggests there could be more pain to come.

  • Devon Energy: Undervalued and Underrated

    8 May 2012 | 9:35 am
    Pessimism is too high and the share price is too low for the big driller, whose sound strategy, strong balance sheet and shrewd joint ventures should pay off nicely.

  • New Policies Make Unum Look Like a Buy

    7 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Focusing on profitability, rather than market share, should pay off in the long run, despite lackluster first-quarter results and worries about the company's checkered history.
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    Barron's Interview

  • Why Barclays and Hewlett-Packard Are Good Bets

    14 May 2012 | 1:46 pm
    Charles Pohl and Diana Strandberg focus on stock price, trying to find companies that can overcome skeptical markets. Their choices include Barclays and Hewlett-Packard.

  • Fighting Investor-Rights Abuses in China

    7 May 2012 | 2:03 pm
    An interview with Dan David, research director at GeoInvesting, which has played a leading role in uncovering problems in U.S.-listed Chinese companies.

  • Is America Becoming an Anti-Risk Welfare State?

    1 May 2012 | 11:06 am
    Niall Ferguson, economic and financial historian, sees parallels between the U.S. now and the mid-20th-century U.K.

  • Fiscal Follies, Monetary Mischief

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Stanford Prof. John Taylor believes that government economic policies should be constrained and predictable rather than ad hoc and discretionary. In particular, he is extremely leery of stimulus spending, and the looming possibility of QE3.

  • The Big Flaws in Dodd-Frank

    14 Apr 2012 | 4:11 am
    A financial historian warns that it's done nothing to prevent the government subsidy of mortgage risk that fueled the financial crisis.
 
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    Barron's Economic Beat

  • The Expansion Limps Ahead

    12 May 2012 | 3:42 am
    The current economic expansion, now nearing its third birthday, is the weakest since 1950, and there's no pickup in sight.

  • Why Goldilocks Must Go

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    Today, the U.S. needs more than an economy in which modest growth is matched by mild inflation.

  • Where Government Shrinks

    30 Apr 2012 | 12:55 pm
    Its share of GDP declined in the latest report, which saw overall growth in output of 2.2%, against consensus expectations of 2.6%.

  • A Surprise on Retail Sales

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    They rose more than the consensus expectation in March, but a measure of voters' economic well-being is still unlikely to climb high enough to give comfort to President Obama.

  • The Gentle Trend in the CPI

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:39 pm
    For the inflation measure, this might as well still be the halcyon days of the 1990s.
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    Barron's Balancing the Books

  • Inside the Turnaround at Ford

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    How Alan Mullaly brought accountability back to the auto giant; failure is an option; politics and petroleum

  • The Toast of the Town

    2 Apr 2012 | 12:10 pm
    Books on building a toaster from scratch and the wealth spawned by the division of labor, maintaining the institutional legacy of Steve Jobs at Apple, U.S. spending on defense, and the increasing number of us living alone.

  • Setting Free the Markets

    5 Mar 2012 | 1:50 pm
    Barron's reviews new written works about: progressives and capitalism; gossip, good or bad?; and the tyranny of PowerPoint.

  • In Defense of the Free Market

    6 Feb 2012 | 1:25 pm
    In Books: A blueprint for streamlining public administration; what money cannot buy; inside the financial bubble; and why good policing really works.

  • Balancing the Books

    3 Jan 2012 | 11:31 am
    Barron's takes a look at three titles—on trading, listening and thinking.
 
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    Barron's Plugged In

  • Views Clash on Tech Outlays

    14 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    CEO Chambers blames weakened corporate tech spending for Cisco's earnings miss, but Intel's Otellini sees no change.

  • Brawling Social Networks

    7 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Yammer is challenging Jive one company at a time to become the Facebook of the corporate world.

  • Oh Henry! Oh Amazon!

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Amazon.com stock surges, as gross margins jump.

  • PeopleSoft's Cloud Era Looms via Workday IPO

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Workday, the seller of on-demand HR software over the Web, is moving toward a public offering. The enterprise-software firm, started by PeopleSoft's co-founders, could be worth $2 billion.

  • A Microsoft-Facebook Swap?

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:46 pm
    An idea is floating about that pictures the search engine Bing being traded for shares in the social-networking service.
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    Barron's Electronic Investor

  • Using an iPad to Stress-Test Earnings

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    The Instant Analyst provides loads of information for investors who want to scrutinize the quality of earnings at companies in a given sector. Also new: a Facebook IPO video primer and commission-free trading at Motif Investing.

  • Go Fetch, Stock Rover

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Impressive new equities Website is an able portfolio manager and likely a tough competitor to Wikinvest.

  • A Lesser Mouse Trap

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    A Website called FundReveal offers a new way to pick mutual funds. Why we prefer the old ways.

  • The Online Ben Graham

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pm
    A site that lets you view investments through his eyes, and others'.

  • Getting Comfortable in the Cloud

    9 Apr 2012 | 12:37 pm
    Online investment software is moving from downloadable applications to cloud-based tools—reachable and operable from any computer you choose. What the excitement's about, and a few cautions.
 
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    Barron's Commodities Corner

  • For Now, Soybeans Look Cooked

    14 May 2012 | 1:17 pm
    High prices likely to weigh on sales to China, and South American crop forecasts are unlikely to be cut further, as U.S. farmers ramp up plantings.

  • The Price of Rice Is Going Up

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    CME futures offer traders a way to capitalize on the likely increase in the grain's price. But to succeed, nimbleness is a must.

  • Beware: Silver Can Bite

    1 May 2012 | 4:19 pm
    Infamously volatile, the metal is out of favor—with investors, industrialists, and even coin collectors—and may stay that way for the foreseeable future.

  • How Corn Demand Is Feeding Fertilizer

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Prices have plunged for natural gas, a key ingredient in the plant food. But high corn prices and increased plantings are keeping plant food costs elevated.

  • Why Low Coffee Prices Are Set to Perk Up

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:39 pm
    Arabica futures are near 17-month lows. However, Latin American weather woes look to pare crops, and give a lift to the market.
 
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    Barron's Review

  • Review

    14 May 2012 | 1:42 pm
    Mark Bloomfield gathers chatty folks from both parties at Washington's last salon. Yes, they speak to each other.

  • Review

    7 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Social media is making big inroads on Wall Street. Here's how some pros have joined the conversation.

  • Review

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:19 pm
    With his Rose Garden rap on "oil speculators" not sticking, President Obama turned to student-loan sharks.

  • Review

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Every three seconds, someone in one of the 44 countries where Spam is sold purchases a can, says Hormel, its maker.

  • Review

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:46 pm
    A study says that from 1980 to 2010, a 23% jump in the global population of farm animals, to 4.3 billion, has sharply increased greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    Barron's Preview

  • Preview

    14 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    Educators account for 14% of America's millionaires, second only to managers in their representation among the super-wealthy.

  • Preview

    7 May 2012 | 2:03 pm
    A program to combat a culture of consumption

  • Preview

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    How computers could be trained to read cover letters by job applicants.

  • Preview

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    A Silver Institute survey found brisk demand for silver bullion among private investors in China.

  • Preview

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:46 pm
    More-colorful clothing is boosting sales at retailers.
 
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    Barron's Follow Up

  • Follow Up

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Disney shares could continue to climb on the strength of the company's cable networks, theme parks and share buybacks. "The Avenger" avenges.

  • Follow Up

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    A Wall Street veteran urges Johnson & Johnson to borrow money to buy back shares. Why it is time for the health-care giant to ditch its triple-A debt rating.

  • Follow Up

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    A year ago, the retailer's CEO, Terry Lundgren, and respected value investor Robert Olstein were bulls on the stock. And they were right. While the P/E ratio has climbed, both men still see gains for the shares. Mentioned is Kohl's.

  • Follow Up

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    The sneaker giant's shares could keep rising as new Flyknit sneakers propel sales and earnings growth.

  • Follow Up

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pm
    CEO Meg Whitman has become a stabilizing force at Hewlett-Packard in the face of a dramatically changing industry. But stability alone might not be enough to lift the shares.
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    Barron's Mailbag

  • Mailbag

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Letters to Barron's about the purpose of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the structure of stable-value funds.

  • Mailbag

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    Letters about Stanford economist John Taylor, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, and the military budget.

  • Mailbag

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Letters about student-loan debt and the high cost of college, high-frequency trading, and the Dodd-Frank law.

  • Mailbag

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Letters to Barron's about quantitative easing, shares of taxation, stable value funds and Obamacare

  • Mailbag

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Letters about our election forecast and the high price of oil
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    Barron's Fund of Information

  • As Goes ISS, So Goes the Fund Industry

    14 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    Institutional Shareholder Services has enormous sway over the fund industry when it comes to voting their shares. Rejecting CEO pay at Citigroup; ousting a director at the NYSE.

  • ETFs Seek Their Own Voice in Washington

    7 May 2012 | 1:48 pm
    The National ETF Association, formed by a trio of executives, seeks to lobby for the needs of its diverse members.

  • Hedge Funds Arrive on Madison Avenue

    30 Apr 2012 | 1:12 pm
    Washington's new JOBS Act empowers funds to advertise themselves more broadly–sort of.

  • Regulatory Turf Wars

    23 Apr 2012 | 1:15 pm
    New and sometimes unclear and conflicting regulations from the Commodities Futures Trading Commission have the fund industry in a tizzy, prompting the Investment Company Institute's first lawsuit in over 40 years.

  • U.S. Fund Companies Struggle in India

    16 Apr 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Overnight and without warning, Indian regulators banned sales loads. Try that in the U.S.
 
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    Stocks To Watch Today

  • FOMC: ‘Several’ Say More ‘Accommodation’ Could Be Necessary

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 1:20 pm
    The Dow Industrials continue to be in the red, down a fraction at 12,625.08, after the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Open Market Committee released its minutes from its meeting on April 24th and 25th, at which meeting “Several members indicated that additional monetary policy accommodation could be necessary if the economic recovery lost momentum or [...]

  • JPM: Busy Day as Investors Sue, FBI to Examine; ‘Whale’ to Leave, Says Times

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 1:11 pm
    Shares of JP Morgan (JPM) are down 22 cents, or 0.6%, at $36.03 amidst a busy day for the firm. This morning kicked off with word that two funds, Saratoga Advantage Trust, and individual investor James Baker, late yesterday filed suit against the bank over its $2 billion projected loss on derivatives trading, disclosed by [...]

  • Ira Sohn: Meryl Witmer Touts Gildan and Viacom

    Avi Salzman
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Meryl Witmer, a well-known investor and partner at Eagle Capital Partners, touted Gildan (GIL), an apparel company, at the Ira Sohn Investment conference in New York on Wednesday. Gildan makes basic apparel, which is sent to screen-printers who customize it and send it to stores. The eventual markup on that clothing is massive. “That shirt [...]

  • Whirlpool Rising: Reiterates Year EPS View

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 11:59 am
    Shares of Whirlpool (WHR) are up $1.43, or 2.4%, at $61.86 after the company’s management made a presentation this morning at a JP Morgan homebuilding and building products conference in New York that included a reiteration of this year’s profit outlook. Today’s deck of slides includes, on slide 18, a reference to $6.50 to $7 per [...]

  • Big Investors Reveal Holdings; What are Buffett, Loeb and Others Buying?

    Avi Salzman
    16 May 2012 | 10:04 am
    Forty-five days after the end of each quarter, many investors have to reveal their equity holdings in filings with the SEC called 13f’s. The filings give the rest of us a look (though somewhat dated) at where the big shots are putting their money. On Monday and Tuesday, we got a glimpse of the portfolios [...]
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    Tech Trader Daily

  • ASMI: Goldman Ups to Hold on Founder’s Remarks

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 2:08 pm
    Goldman Sachs’s chip equipment analyst Simon Schafer today raised his rating on the ordinary shares of ASM International NV (ASMAS), traded on Euronext, to Neutral from Sell, with a €33 price target, writing that he sees “improved prospects for structural change.” The upgrade prompted a nearly 8% jump in ASM shares in Europe, to €30.18. [...]

  • Velti Off 26% on Q1 Metrics; ‘Growing Pains,’ Say Bulls

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 1:44 pm
    Shares of U.K.-based Velti (VELT), an ad platform for mobile devices, are down $2.26, or 26%, at $6.34, and fell as low as $6 at one point, despite the company yesterday reporting Q1 revenue that topped expectations and forecasting this quarter’s revenue ahead of expectations as well. Two details appear to have spooked investors, an increase in [...]

  • Samsung, Apple Lead Q1 Smartphones Amidst Mobile Slowdown, Says Gartner

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    Research firm Gartner this afternoon reported a slump of 2% in mobile phone sales in Q1, year over year, the first drop since Q2 of 2009 that the market saw a decline. Sales of 419.1 million phones in Q1 represented a greater-than-expected slowing, says Gartner analyst Anshul Gupta. Q1 is traditionally helped by the Chinese [...]

  • Micron Jumps 5%: Raymond James Sees Validation from Apple

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 11:46 am
    Shares of DRAM maker Micron Technology (MU) are up 33 cents, or 5.4%, at $6.34 following a report this morning by DigiTimes’s Josephine Lien and Jessie Shen saying that Apple (AAPL) has placed “huge orders” for memory chips with Elpida (ELPDF), the Japanese manufacturer that Micron is helping restructure after bankruptcy. The orders were supposedly [...]

  • Cisco: Barclays Ups to Buy, Lousy Q4 May Not Be So Bad

    Tiernan Ray
    16 May 2012 | 10:23 am
    Barclays Capital's Jeff Kvaal today raised his rating on shares of Cisco Systems (CSCO) to Overweight from Equal Weight, while maintaining a $21 price target, writing that the company's got "multiple ways to win," with support on the downside, upside potential if the economy proves stable, and cash returns in either case. The stock could be worth $26 if the fiscal Q4 outlook offered last week by CEO John Chambers turns out not so bad. In fact, Kvaal opines, "Cisco’s solid 3Q results and visibility metrics (DSOs, orders, book to bill) suggest the worst F4Q guidance (flat at the…
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