Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows

Dan Burrows is a veteran of CBS MoneyWatch, DailyFinance, SmartMoney and Dow Jones MarketWatch, and has written for The Wall Street Journal, Consumer Reports and other publications. He favors value investing and writes about asset prices and macroeconomic trends for the long-term investor. He holds no individual securities.

Recent Articles

5 Under-the-Radar Bellwether Stocks

Want to know what's happening across the economy? Beyond the usual big blue-chip indicators are stocks like these that can clue you in.

Caterpillar’s Breakthrough First Quarter

CAT just logged record earnings and has a record order backlog — and that's with a sluggish global economy.

Big Banks’ Earnings Fit for Goldilocks

Big banks' earnings are a case of incremental improvements in some areas and weakness in others. All in all, they're OK -- and for now, that's good enough.

Big Banks Face a Potential Ticking Time Bomb

BofA, Citi and Morgan Stanley could get hit with credit downgrades by Moody's. Though not a kiss of death, it would be yet another obstacle for the banks.

Treasury Yields Tarnished Again

A smattering of disappointing U.S. data and global worries have pummeled the 10-year Treasury back down to 2% -- and that yield could stay low for some time.