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There is still a massive amount of sovereign debt trading around the planet with negative yields. Yep, you get less money back than you invested.
Mario Draghi and the European Central Bank may have dashed some of the ambitions of investors who have been hoping for the endless quantitative easing money that they have grown so used to.
According to Merrill Lynch, Apple and Ireland are expected to appeal the ruling, that could take years to be resolved, and no immediate financial impact is expected.
The Bank of England has decided to try to fend off more economic weakness, and hopefully avoid a recession, by lowering interest rates for the first time in seven years and launching bond buying
Investors often wonder what to think when the stock market hits new all-time highs. Do they sell or do they chase the market higher?
So we all know now that Britain voted to leave the European Union. All the polls told you not to worry about that happening, but then it happened.
Watching the massive fallout and then recovery within broad markets, we are beginning to realize that the Brexit provided a very attractive entry point into a fair number of industries. Granted, the...
The demand for safe-haven trades is becoming almost zany. It seems unthinkable that there was nearly $10 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields just a few weeks ago. Now the tally for...
Warren Buffett is deemed by many investors and market watchers to be the greatest investor of the modern era. Some may not agree at all, but Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is not by accident...
Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) is scheduled to release fiscal second-quarter financial results before the markets open on Tuesday. The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are calling for $0.39 in...
After last Friday’s 600+ point drop in the Dow, the reality is that the United States held up much better than Europe. Bank stocks were hammered and many European key stocks were down 10% to 25%...
U.S. airline stocks have taken two solid hits to share prices in the past two weeks. First the horrific killings in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub and then the unexpected vote that could lead to...
The market reaction to the British vote to leave the European Union has been catastrophic, not just in the U.S. markets but globally everything has pulled back. Perhaps the hardest hit sectors were...
The largest U.S. banks had a rough day Friday following the U.K. vote to leave the European Union. The average share price loss for the country’s six biggest banks was 7.59%. The unexpected result...
That The Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is struggling is not exactly headline news. When the clothing retailer reported first-quarter last month, same-store sales were down 5% and total sales were down 6%....