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Staying Financially Secure When Tragedy Strikes

Staying Financially Secure When Tragedy Strikes

How financially secure are you when tragedy strikes? It can be tough to get out of a tight spot if you don’t start planning now. No one likes to think about tragedy or disaster striking their family, but if you don’t have a safety net in place, your finances can quickly get out of control. […]
4 Reasons Why Investors Love Passive ETFs

4 Reasons Why Investors Love Passive ETFs

While the ETF industry is growing by leaps and bounds, investors’ inclination toward passive ETFs is quite remarkable. There are about 1836 non-leveraged ETFs listed on U.S. indexes with an average market-cap of $3.29 trillion and average expense ratio of 0.57%, as per xtf.com. Among them, 900 are passively managed, followed by 740 ETFs following […]
Why The Next US Recession Could Be Worse Than The Last

Why The Next US Recession Could Be Worse Than The Last

Though the frontrunners are becoming clear, there are several other subjects many of you have expressed interest in that we don’t want to ignore. One of these topics is the US economy. Specifically, some of you wanted us to analyze the economy in the context of George’s forecast in “The Next 100 Years”: that a […]
New ProShares Retail ETFs To Bet On Store To Online Shift

New ProShares Retail ETFs To Bet On Store To Online Shift

With a digital transformation in shopping, bricks-and-mortar retailers are struggling. Feeble sales are forcing them to shut stores or file for bankruptcy, while e-commerce retailers are making hay. In order to capitalize on this trend, ProShares has launched two retail disruption ETFs, namely ProShares Decline of the Retail Store ETF and ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF, designed to […]
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                        What Bitcoin’s Recent Wild Stretch Means For Other Cryptocurrencies

E What Bitcoin’s Recent Wild Stretch Means For Other Cryptocurrencies

The Bitcoin family has had a pretty wild stretch. In just the past two weeks, it was subject to extreme volatility even by cryptocurrency standards, saw a spinoff token take center spotlight of the entire digital asset markets, and even witnessed a highly anticipated project get unexpectedly aborted, all leaving the market to go even […]
How Many Uber And Lyft Drivers Will Lose Their Jobs? All Of Them

How Many Uber And Lyft Drivers Will Lose Their Jobs? All Of Them

Uber will buy 24,000 autonymous Volvo cars in 2019-2021. Nearly every driving job will vanish, faster than most think. Bloomberg reports Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal for 24,000 Volvos. Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to buy 24,000 sport utility vehicles from Volvo Cars to form a fleet of driverless autos, a signal that the company remains […]
Operation Twist By Another Name And Method?

Operation Twist By Another Name And Method?

The TIP/IEF ‘inflation gauge’ is still motoring upward after breaking above the SMA 200. If this turns the 200 up along with the MA 50 it could indicate a mini hysteria about inflation. The problem lately has been that the longest duration bonds have been relatively strong, putting a cap on yields and inflationary signaling, […]
BofA’s Apocalyptic Forecast: Stocks Flash Crash, Bond Bubble Bursts In H1 2018, War May Follow

BofA’s Apocalyptic Forecast: Stocks Flash Crash, Bond Bubble Bursts In H1 2018, War May Follow

Having predicted back in July that the “most dangerous moment for markets will come in 3 or 4 months”, i.e., now, BofA’s Michael Hartnett was – in retrospect – wrong (unless of course the S&P plunges in the next few days). However, having stuck to his underlying logic – which was as sound then as […]
Wal-Mart/Best Buy Lead Major Holiday Retailers

Wal-Mart/Best Buy Lead Major Holiday Retailers

For today’s edition of our bulletin, we used our website’s advanced screening functions to search for data on major US retailers–Amazon.com, Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart–ahead of Black Friday and the kick off to the holiday shopping season. They are presented alphabetically. Best Buy and Wal-Mart are rated BUY. Amazon and Target are rated HOLD […]