This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy.
• Jim Jubak (MSN Money): 3-step strategy for a twitchy market, November 19, 2009.
Many investors are deeply suspicious of the 60% run-up in stocks this year and are itching to sell. But then what? Here’s how to take some gains now while setting up a profitable 2010.
• Randall Forsyth (Barron’s): Treasury yield plunge sends warning, November 20, 2009.
Collapse in note yields suggests... Continue Reading
Submitted ByPrieur du Plessis
The main theme of the opinion piece by Representatives Hensarling and Ryan in the Wall Street Journal is poor economic policy choices of the current administration. "Economic history paints a very different picture from the opinion piece. Should political leaders be engaged in partisan rhetoric or...
Submitted ByPrieur du Plessis
This post provides links to a number of interesting articles I have read over the past few days that you may also enjoy. Please also add the links to any other worthwhile articles you would like to share to the comments section...
Submitted ByTrent Hamm
Over the past few weeks, I’ve heard this question several times from various people who find me on their Christmas gift list this year. I’m guessing they’re all thinking more or less the same thing: what do you get for a guy who doesn’t really want anything? So they ask me, and then [...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
It's a good thing that the folks at the FHA (Federal Housing Administration) know what they're doing. Otherwise, their tiny capital reserves as compared to the nearly $700 billion in home loans they guarantee might be cause for concern, especially after reading a story like this one that, if you...
Submitted ByPrieur du Plessis
Bill Gross, co-founder and co-CIO of PIMCO, is to my mind one of the shrewdest money men around. His monthly newsletter, this month entitled "Anything but .01%", therefore always makes for thought-provoking reading. This post features a few excerpts from the report...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
Edmund L. Andrews reports on how Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" amendment got tucked into the new House bill on financial market regulation, maybe as a result of a growing number of elected officials having read Paul's new book End the Fed.At the House Financial Services Committee, which was working on...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Since that surge on Monday this market is really scuffling and providing very little opportunities from either the long or short side unless you are an extremely short term oriented daytrader sort. We're essentially in a holding pattern circling the airport... it is just unclear if this is...
Submitted ByTrent Hamm
By this time next week, most Americans will have gathered with friends and family and eaten the traditional Thanksgiving meal. I’ll be gathering for three separate Thanksgiving dinners during this holiday weekend.
Quite often, I’ll see people spend exorbitant amounts of money on lavish...
Submitted ByTushar Mathur
Investors seeking an index investment nowadays can choose to put their money into either conventional fund shares or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), but deciding which to pick may seem perplexing. Many similarities—and important differences
In many respects, index funds and ETFs seeking to track...
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