It’s a pretty great time to be alive and investing, all things considered. MarketWatch: Shares of Apple closed up 1.9% at a new record high of $122.02 on Tuesday, pushing the iPhone maker’s market capitalization above $700 billion for the first time. As of Tuesday’s close, the Cupertino-based company was valued at $710.8 billion, making…

Oil price declines are now wending their way through the real economy, for better and for worse. In Texas, a capital of the shale boom, the effects are decidedly negative. Bloomberg News is reporting that “20,193, or 38 percent, of the 53,041 announced job cuts in January were in the energy industry,” according to data from…

At the request of so many investment advisors, my friends at Riskalyze share the big trends in the assets going into and coming out of advisor portfolios every week. The underlying data is aggregated from hundreds of thousands of client accounts across the $44 billion and counting that advisors manage on the Riskalyze platform*. I…

I don’t have time to explain why this is really cool and I totally get that if you’re not from my generation you’re not into it. F. Gary Gray directs, and yes, Ice Cube is played by his own real-life son (O’Shea Jackson Jr), so the resemblance shouldn’t totally shock you. All living members of the…

There’s a thin line between brilliance and insanity, they say. How would a Shark Tank episode have gone if some of today’s biggest companies had pitched the Sharks on their ideas? I explore this idea in my latest post at Fortune Magazine. Enjoy! Shark Tank: The lost pitches (Fortune)

Apparently, this is a thing that actually occurred. I find it abhorrent, needless to say. UBS’ Michael Crook: Instead of cutting spending in retirement after a down year, consider securities-based loan until mkt comes back. — Greg Crawford (@gfcrawford) February 9, 2015 Greg Crawford is a journalist at industry trade mag Investment News. I don’t…