As stock markets in the United States touch new record highs, they are proving irresistible to firms in search of cash, producing a boom in listings not witnessed since before the financial crisis or even as far back as the Internet bubble.Getty Images/iStockphoto
Inside the Market's weekend roundup of some of last week's best investing reads on the Internet, which are highlighted every morning in our Before the Bell report.
Stock picking
Top 10 buys and sells of Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers.
Why it may be time to buy coal stocks.
How to find neglected companies that could be poised to outperform.
Insight
The Canadian Couch Potato blog on why currency hedging doesn't work in Canada.
How the latest Forbes magazine ranking of the world's billionaires can help you become a better investor.
Eight lessons from Warren Buffett last weekend.
Why open-end index funds are safer for most individual investors.
Don't bet on the predictive power of financial metrics of companies.
There's extra risk in equal-weighted strategies that tends to get shuffled into the background in the hype surrounding this and other so-called Smart Beta Strategies.
Pimco's CEO has a fascinating theory for why companies aren't spending more money.
Trends
How the push toward fee-based management has had a profound impact on the equities market.
No, market highs are not a bad sign. And here's an important difference between the all-time-high stock market of today and the dot-com bubble of the 90s.
A potential emerging markets buy: Stocks in India have broken out to the upside.
U.S. corporate insider bearishness is at pre-2008 crash levels.
A warning about the soaring popularity of junk bonds.
ETFs
iShares tax-advantaged ETFs: Where are they now?
The best and worst new ETFs of 2013.
Gurus
Warren Buffett has cut the allocation to bonds at Berkshire Hathaway's insurance units to the lowest in more than a decade.
Ben Bernanke earned more from one speech than he did last year at the Fed.
Darcy Keith