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Small Caps Stocks for September

Buyouts Bring Small Cap Opportunities A 21-month run of rock-bottom interest rates have created a perfect environment for corporate bonds — and as bond yields fall, bond prices rise and investors and companies have made out like bandits. This has put so much cash in corporate coffers that cash (as a percentage of S&P 500 [...]

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Downgrade-palooza Continues – S&P To Cut Portugal, Italy, Spain, Austria

The downgrades from Standard & Poor‘s keep coming, with anonymous government officials now identifying many more targets beyond France. Now, insiders are saying Italy, Spain and Portugal will have their sovereign credit rating downgraded by two notches. Austria is also set to lose its Triple A rating along with France. Germany and the Netherlands are [...]

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Experts on 2012 – The Worst is Yet to Come

Experts retained a gloomy outlook with 2011 forecasts, but 2012 outlooks appear to be even worse… Here’s a glimpse of some of America’s most respected financial experts with some dire predictions for the coming year: Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Best-selling author, Taleb is famous for his book “The Black Swan.” According to Taleb, the debt crisis [...]