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Last year the stock market went up some 30 percent, the best year for stocks in over a decade. IBM, Hewlett Packard, GE and even Microsoft all now seem like your grandfather’s stocks. According to research by Nardin Baker at the management firm Guggenheim Partners, from 1990 through 2012 a portfolio consisting of the 10 percent of stocks with the lowest historical volatility did 19 percentage points better per year than the 10 percent of stocks with the greatest volatility.

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Stocks with the weakest balance sheets have climbed more than 8 percent in 2014 and 94 percent since the end of 2011, generating almost twice the gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (SPX) over that period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Shares in the category this year are beating those that most investors consider the bull market’s leaders, such as small caps and biotechnology, which tumbled in March. Helped by rising bond issuance and falling defaults, stocks from Tenet Healthcare Corp. to Frontier Communications Corp.

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U.S. home prices rose in March, but the gains are decelerating as fewer Americans can afford to buy. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 12.4 percent in March compared with …

Bank of America has resubmitted its capital plan to the Federal Reserve, a month after it discovered errors in its initial report and was forced to suspend a bigger dividend payout and a stock buyback. …

FXStreet (Córdoba) – The USD/JPY hit fresh 2-week highs past the 102.00 mark as the dollar was…

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Treasury prices trade mostly lower after a round of economic data and ahead of an auction of 2-year notes
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Here’s how they’re doing it, based on their own quarterly reports and comments in earnings calls.