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Trump Raises the Trade Deal Ante, Markets Waiver
U.S. President Donald Trump has a reputation as a tough negotiator, and his latest move to raise the ante on tariffs with China makes that abundantly clear. As…
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Upcoming Uber IPO Faces a Tough Road Ahead
Uber’s IPO is finally scheduled to roll out this week amidst much fanfare, and is said to be the most anticipated IPO since Facebook in 2012. In terms…
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Delaying Social Security Benefits Now Make Less Sense
While financial advisors always have told us to wait until age 70 to collect Social Security benefits, the changing landscape of Social Security should have us rethinking this.…
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Should the Market Be Concerned About the Fed’s Neutral Stance?
Our latest Fed meeting resulted in the committee leaving interest rates alone, in the face of inflation that has dipped from the last meeting. Should we be concerned?…
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Increasing Production Continues to Drive Oil Prices Downward
While oil prices have been in an upward trend since late December of last year, tracking the stock markets pretty closely, it is now experiencing its biggest pullback…
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Apple Stock Leaps Again After Positive Earnings Report
Apple shared some news which the market after the close Tuesday, with their announcement of their quarterly results, and the market expressed its approval on Wednesday. On a…
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The Real Reason Why Social Security is Going Broke
Just about everyone thinks that the upcoming shortfall in the Social Security balance sheet, which will cause it to become bankrupt, is solely because of changing demographics. The…
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Why Price/Earnings Ratios Don’t Tell Us Very Much
Price to earnings is relied upon by a lot of people in deciding a stock’s outlook. The idea is to hope that we’ll get a reversion to the…
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Professional Money Managers Starting to Waiver
The stock market hasn’t shown any real signs of slowing down, but in a survey of money managers, their confidence in the current market is getting a little…
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Effectively Managing Risk in Today’s Stock Markets
Investors often worry about risk, but many don’t think about it too much unless they have already been exposed to a lot of it. We always want to…