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Any time there is a major sell-off in stock, bonds usually are the beneficiary. The problem this time around is that interest rates are already so low.
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ThinkstockTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) may have just proved how financially fit and capable the company is. On Friday afternoon the global generic drug giant reported that it has...
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ThinkstockInvestors have had years and years now to prepare for a Federal Reserve interest rate hike cycle in the United States. There remains much debate on the magnitude of how much tightening will...
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UnitedHealth Group has confirmed what investors were expecting with the sale of billions of dollars in debt.
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ThinkstockPuerto Rico is having a hard time finding very many fronts. Now comes news that ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB)....
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While most of the market has been focused on a Greek exit or even default, MBIA shares are suffering from a potential default closer to home.
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ThinkstockMonday’s stock market sell-off may have looked harsh as the Greece exit of the Euro looks closer and closer. Municipal bond investors now have a much larger risk in the United States than...
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CVS Health is not one of the biggest names that investors generally think of when it comes to multi-billion capital raises.
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Of the closed-end funds covered in a recent Merrill Lynch report, 24/7 Wall St. has focused on four top muni bond funds trading at deep discounts to net asset value.
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The closed-end funds featured in this multi-part report include some tax-free yielding municipal funds, senior loan funds, high-yield funds and even an emerging market debt fund.
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Jon OggThe secret has been out for a while that Janey Yellen and the Federal Reserve are going to begin hiking interest rates. There remains a debate over how soon this will start, and how much rates...
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With the bull market now more than six years old, and with equity valuations being high, at least some of the cautious investors are starting to worry that the market could be ready for a big tumble.
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Despite all the corruption down in Brazil that Petrobras has spent time in the barrel about, the investing public just loaned Petrobras' global finance unit some $2.5 billion in a whopping 100-year...
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It can be very dangerous for a Federal Reserve president to speak on the last business day ahead of a holiday, when traders and investors already have their foot out the door.
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Jon OggAs regulators propose and ultimately make new rules around asset classes, they can create huge supply and demand imbalances. They can create bubbles or they can make liquidity dry up. So, what...
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