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ThinkstockHistory shows that years following sub-2% GDP growth tend to be good for stocks, but near-term exuberance, with investors focusing again on momentum stocks, could signal a pause after the...
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ThinkstockWhile the Federal Reserve most likely will not taper its bond-buying program known as quantitative easing this fall, and perhaps not this year, the fact that interest rates are going higher...
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Jon OggInvestors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and...
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Jon OggThe government shutdown may be averted for a few months and the S&P 500 Index may have just hit new all-time highs, but a short seller is maintaining his aggressive stance against shares...
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Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. is a huge fan of dividends. Rising dividends and safe high-yield dividends are even better. What is not good is when things are bad enough that a company will have to cut its...
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ThinkstockThe saying is that if there is a trading strategy, then there is an ETF strategy for that as well. Now the markets are getting a new exchange-traded fund strategy aimed at tracking the...
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ThinkstockExchange traded funds (ETFs) almost undoubtedly have unseated mutual funds in their importance in the daily swings in the stock and bond markets. Mutual funds are still important to the...
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Wikimedia CommonsYou have certainly heard of the craze and hype behind Bitcoin by now. Perhaps you have even heard of the efforts to “game” Bitcoin and to further push the adoption of Bitcoin....
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courtesy U.S. Federal Reserve24/7 Wall St. has been surprised by the FOMC with the decision not to begin tapering its $85 billion per month in bond buying. The markets were surprised too, because the...
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CIA World FactbookTurkey is supposed to be one of the great emerging markets. Unfortunately, its growth has been derailed, its nation was hit hard by protests and unrest over the summer, and now it...
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ThinkstockIn an effort to curb its current account deficit, and ultimately to prevent even more inflation, the nation of India reportedly has increased its tax on gold imports again. Gold jewelry...
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Jon OggThe boom of investor interest in the field of 3D printing may be coming to a serious end, or at least entering a period where some value concerns have to at least be considered. We have...
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ThinkstockWhich way the future of Greece goes is still up in the air. If you read enough of the financial and political news coming out of and about the European Union and the nations making up the...
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ThinkstockTexas Instruments Inc. (NASDAQ: TXN) may have just given the preliminary earnings report yelling “All clear in Chip Land!” in its mid-quarter update, but the reality is that the company...
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ThinkstockInflation is often crippling in economies, but so-called hyperinflation is far worse. 24/7 Wall St. recently identified 11 key emerging market nations suffering serious inflation. In most...
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