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New Quarterly GDP Number Not as Big as it Appears
The first thing people may have thought when they saw the U.S. first quarter GDP come in so much higher than expected is that this may be alarming.…
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Stock Market Bets on Chevron to Win Takeover Bid
While there is much speculation on whether Chevron or Occidental will win the bid to take over Anadarko Petroleum, you can’t just necessarily go by the size of…
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3M Shares Get Punished After Slashing 2019 Earnings
After a terrible 2018 which saw 3M stock lose 20%, 2019 was shaping up much better, until Thursday that is. The stock lost most of their 15% year…
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P&G Seen as Undervalued in Spite of Recent Highs
Procter and Gamble’s stock has done very well over the last year, up 43% from where it sat last April. Barclay’s believes that it should go even higher,…
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Microsoft Continues to Make New Highs After Positive Earnings
Microsoft has been right up there with Apple as far as the biggest stocks in the world go. They got there from their tremendous rise in stock prices,…
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New CFPB Director Looks to Focus on Consumer Education
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was put in place in 2008 in the aftermath of the mortgage crisis. New director Kathy Kraninger is focused more on education than…
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How Diversified Should Our Stocks Be These Days?
We’re often told to diversify a lot with our stock positions. While some diversification can make sense, if we’re picking our stocks ourselves, how much of this do…
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MBS Fund Columbia Has Made Lemonade out of Lemons
The very thought of investing in non-agency mortgage backed securities still strikes fear in the hearts of many investors. The ones that collapsed are still very much alive…
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New Study Reveals Misunderstandings About Credit Card Rewards
A lot of people use credit cards to earn rewards. As it turns out, a very large number of them don’t quite understand how these rewards work, especially…
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Non-Transparent Active ETFs Finally Win SEC Approval
Precidian Investments filed an application with the SEC back in 2014 for a type of active ETF that does not require transparency. The SEC likes transparency. They finally…