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Forex Forecast And Cryptocurrencies Forecast For September 10-14

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First, a review of last week’s events: EUR/USD. As for the trends and their changes, the forecast given last week turned out to be absolutely accurate: starting from Tuesday, September 6, we saw the weakening of the dollar and the pair’s growth, and the strengthening of the dollar and the fall of the pair at […]

5 Business Services Stocks To Buy As Job Gains Soar

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In August, job additions exceeded expectations, indicating that economic expansion retained steam toward the end of summer. Though the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.9%, the big news from this Labor Department report was the spike in wage gains. This metric soared to its highest level since the end of the Great Recession. It wasn’t […]

Verizon Hikes Dividends For The 12th Consecutive Year

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Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), through its subsidiaries, offers communications, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide. Verizon raised its quarterly dividend by 2.10% to 60.25 cents/share. This was the 12th consecutive year that Verizon’s Board has approved a quarterly dividend increase. As a result of the track record of […]

Why The Fed Denied The Narrow Bank

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It’s not every day that a clear example showing the horrors of central planning comes along—the doublethink, the distortions, and the perverse incentives. It’s not every year that such an example occurs for monetary central planning. One came to the national attention this week. A company called TNB applied for a Master Account with the […]

High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio September Update

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The High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio is a publicly tracked stock portfolio on Scott’s Investments. The goal is to capture quality high yield stocks with a history of raising dividends. The screening process for this portfolio originally started with the “Dividend Champions” as compiled by DRIP Investing. Sadly, the curator of the list at DRIP Investing, David Fish, recently […]

Stocks Face Three Potential Outcomes: Pretty Bad, Bad And Horrific

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Something has changed in the market. The momentum-driven rally that pushed stocks to new all-time highs completely floundered a few weeks ago. What should have been a monster breakout on massive buying power ended up being a feeble push to new highs before stocks promptly rolled over. More and more, that is looking like a false breakout. This opens […]

Pound Surges After Barnier Says Brexit Deal “Realistic” In 6-8 Weeks

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The British pound surged, the euro hit session highs and the dollar slumped following a comment from the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, speaking at conference in Bled, Slovenia, who said it’s “realistic” and “possible” to get a Brexit deal within eight weeks. Quoted by Bloomberg, Barnier, who was speaking at a conference in Bled, […]

The Myth Of Gold-Stock Leverage

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A few years ago I wrote a couple of pieces explaining why gold mining is a crappy business. The main reason is the malinvestment that periodically afflicts the industry due to the boom-bust cycle caused by monetary inflation. To recap, when the financial/banking system appears to be in trouble and/or economic confidence is on the decline, the […]

What Are Technicals Saying About Currency Markets?

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While factor investing in equities appears to be gaining traction, investors ignoring momentum in the foreign exchange (FX) market may be exposing themselves to undue risk. Below, we examine the trends in technicals for the U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound to find clues for where FX markets could head next. Methodology Through our research on currency markets, we identified three […]

The Money Game & The Human Brain

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Jason Zweig, a neuroscience and Benjamin Graham expert, re-published an article last year entitled: “Ben Graham, The Human Brain, And The Bubble.” The entire article is a worthy read but there were a few points in particular he made that are just as relevant today as they were when he wrote the original essay in 2003. “At the […]