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Oil Futures Settle in After Monday’s Over-Reaction
Crude oil futures are already known to be pretty volatile, but events over the weekend really set things spinning. Monday brought a huge spike, but we calmed down…
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Investors Now Customizing their Target Date Funds
Target date funds are a fairly new concept where people purchase a fund which is targeted toward when they plan on retiring. Does it make sense to customize…
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Underperforming Stocks Beat Overperformers Last Week
The fact that “value” stocks on the whole outperformed “growth” stocks last week shouldn’t really raise any eyebrows, but this sure did. Was this really that interesting? The…
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Europeans Growing Weary of Low Interest Rates
In a world where economies are so connected, we can no longer to afford to not pay attention to what is happening anywhere, and especially in an area…
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Bonds Nosedive and Suffer Worst Week Since 2016
It’s not that we didn’t see this coming, but the buying frenzy that sent prices of U.S. treasuries to historic levels had to come to an end sooner…
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Are Bank of America $29 Calls Such a Bargain Now?
You don’t see all that many articles on options plays in the popular financial media, but Barron’s columnist Steven Sears is known to provide a few, and has…
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Ford Bonds Downgraded to Junk, Is the Stock Junk Too?
A company’s business prospects don’t matter as much as many may think, but they do matter, and matter more in some cases. Ford is going in the wrong…
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Ways to Keep Student Loan Debt More Under Control
The cost of a college education has been climbing three times faster than the rate of inflation and the amount of student loan debt in the U.S. is…
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Advisor Sees Us on a Course for Economic Crisis
Hedge fund advisor Avi Tiomkin sees us heading for some real gloom and doom due to the economy contracting and deflationary trends unless we do something really drastic.…
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Low Interest Rates Impacting Company Pension Funds
When 2018 comes in as a good year for corporate pension funds, and 2019 isn’t a good year at all, we may wonder if the people who run…