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Click to read - Analysis: Emerging market pain not about to faze U.S.-focused Fed - Though the central bank's 16-month-old bond-buying program is meant to boost the U.S. economy, in the past it has lifted currencies and stocks in emerging markets that have benefited from a rush of international investment and the resulting lower interest rates. Now that the Fed intends to wind down the unprecedented policy accommodation by later this year, those markets - especially in countries with large current account deficits - have dropped hard, prompting policy responses late last week from central banks around the world.
Click to read - FOMC, Obama’s State of Union, Apple: Week Ahead Jan. 27-Feb. 1 - The Federal Open Market Committee is likely to further trim bond purchases as it meets for the last time before Janet Yellen takes over as head of the U.S. central bank from Ben S. Bernanke. President Barack Obama delivers his fifth State of the Union address and probably will call for increasing the minimum wage and boosting spending on projects to create jobs. U.S. consumer confidence, home prices and durable goods orders probably rose. In Japan, December’s trade data are forecast to show an 18th straight monthly deficit. Apple Inc. (AAPL), Ford Motor Co. (F), Pfizer Inc. (PFE), Nintendo Co. (7974), Siemens AG and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) will report earnings.
Click to read - Diversification Beyond Stocks - Diversifying not just among different stocks, but among different assets, is how an investor can truly mitigate risk. Even with a well-diversified stock portfolio, an individual is still exposed to market risk (or systematic risk as finance professors like to call it), which cannot be diversified away by adding additional stocks.
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