Should I invest in ETFs or Conventional Mutual Funds
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 differencesIn many respects, index funds and ETFs seeking to track the... Continue Reading
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...
Submitted ByAndy Wang
The market started out weak on an inline unemployment report. The chip makers led the market lower as Bank of America downgraded both INTC and TXN. INTC lost 4.08% while TXN dropped 3.38%. If you read the above linked article, you can really get a sense that it is a "ratings game". The...
Submitted ByRichard Wilson
SKAR Development Formula
There is a formula that I have used over the past 7 years to help me build my resume, career, and now my own small business, that is the SKAR Formula. This is not a way to shortcut the hard work it takes to be successful, but rather a map as to where invest your...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
Just about everywhere you look these days in the financial media, when the topic of discussion turns to the plunging U.S. dollar, you'll hear someone saying something like, "Unless the Fed raises interest rates, the dollar's got nowhere to go but down".And then someone invariably says, "But the...
Submitted ByTrader Mark
Aside from E-House Holdings (EJ) which completely fell flat on its face, one of the best earnings reports of the past few weeks was Ctrip.com (CTRP). Unlike EJ, the stock gapped up after earnings and tacked on a bushel of points. Today the stock has come back and filled it's "gap" in...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
It looks like today will be an important day for those, on one side, who seek to shine a little more light on the operations of the Federal Reserve and those, on the other side, hoping to keep prying eyes away. Bloomberg reports that the House Financial Services Committee is discussing the issue...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
“In the old days … the Fed controlled the federal funds rate with open market operations,” Antulio Bomfim, a former Fed economist now with Macroeconomic Advisors LLC in Washington told Reuters. “Now, at least in this period when reserves are over-abundant, the way the Fed hopes to raise the...
Submitted ByTim Iacono
USA Today reports on a new study of how personal bankruptcies are working their way up the socio-economic ladder, increasingly affecting better educated families and homeowners.A new study by Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law School Leo Gottlieb professor of law, and Deborah Thorne, Ohio University...
Submitted ByContrarianProfits
Baltimore — (TFN): I am starting to sound like a broken record, bashing the actions of our government every day for the last week, but I don’t care. What these ignoramuses are doing is simply criminal.
It is becoming more and more apparent that today’s breed of politicians is good at only one...
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 differencesIn many respects, index funds and ETFs seeking to track the... 
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