I am an independent financial advisor in Atlanta, GA.? We have spoken via email and text a few times.? Historically, you have always been responsive, even to my complaints, and I have always appreciated that.After canceling my Service a few months ago, I have decided to come back.? In markets like yesterday your insights are
?If someone called me tomorrow and said that ten year US Treasury bonds were at 0.75%, I would not be surprised,? said Larry Fink, the founder of BlackRock, the world?s largest asset manager.
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Finally, finally, the stock markets broke out to an all time high last week. After trying, and failing, for two years, traders finally got the print they were begging for, with the S&P 500 closing above 2015. The world has too many people and not enough bonds. That is the undeniable conclusion of the recent
If we get another 5% correction in stocks in the coming weeks, it is best to have your ?BUY? list on the table and ready to go. That way you don?t have to waste time looking up ticker symbols. I?ll give you mine. Let me get this right. Stocks screamed upward last week because: 1)
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When things are going to happen, and the market gets a whiff of it, fast forward often kicks in. That seems to be what is happening to my forecast that US stocks would end 2016 on the back of both rising earnings and a price earnings multiple expansion. Hey Mr. Market! Check your watch! You?re
50 degrees, 26.68 minutes North, 022 degrees, 29.98 minutes West, or 1,000 nautical miles South of Iceland, heading 089 degrees.Four days of hearing foghorns is starting to get tiring. Captain Wells has been ducking many of his social responsibilities, feeling more secure in the bridge close to the radar.After a few days of intermittent access,
?This is an epic bond bubble that we may have just seen the end of, not only here, but in Europe too,? said Peter Boockvar, an analyst at the Lindsey Group.
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?Sure, things are crazy now, but they can remain crazy for a little bit longer,? said a hedge fund trader friend of mine.
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As I boarded a Virgin Atlantic 747 to fly from New York to London a few weeks ago, who did I find in the seat next to me, but my old friend, Sir Richard Branson. I first got to know the shaggy haired billionaire entrepreneur 36 years ago in London. I lived in a Georgian
I?ll never forget when my friend, Don Kagin, one of the world?s top dealers in rare coins, walked into the gym one day and announced that he made $1 million that morning.? I enquired ?How is that, pray tell??He told me that he was an investor and technical consultant to a venture hoping to discover
?They are energetic. They are very smart. But a lot of them?they are paper pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It?s ridiculous, OK?? said presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
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Friday?s blockbuster nonfarm payroll report certainly will give markets a positive spin coming out of the gate this week. Some 287,000 jobs were added last month, dwarfing the disappointing 38,000 figure seen for May. The headline unemployment came in at a decade low 4.9%. With flip-flopping, on again, off again statistics like these, traders? lives
One of the great anomalies of the American credit markets has always been the existence of the 30-year fixed rate home mortgage.Long the favorite of homeowners, it has financed the majority of US residential property purchases since a Depression era housing stimulus program created them in 1938.That is until now.A perfect storm of institutional, political