Category Archive: Finance
9 Step Guide To Start Saving For Retirement Now
Are you sick of working your nine to five job with a boss who tells you what to do everyday? Do sit at your desk and dream of the moment you can finally retire? Does spending your retirement in a constant state of vacation and relaxation sound like a dream? If you answered “yes” to […]
Trading Week Off To A Quiet Start
Asian stocks were slightly higher on Tuesday, despite concerns about weak data from China, as the MSCI index gained 0.5 percent, the Hang Seng index looked towards modest gains and the Australia benchmark index was up 0.4 percent in early trade. “It’s been an incredibly quiet start to the week as most currencies remain rangebound […]
RiverNorth And DoubleLine Release New Strategic Bond CEF
The arrival of new strategies within the closed-end fund (CEF) universe is always an interesting event. There are much fewer new CEFs released on an annual basis than the exchange-traded fund world, which makes this experience more noteworthy. This is primarily due to the fact that investment banks and fund managers must raise a large […]
EC “Price Inflation” Is Not The Biggest Problem
All else remaining equal, an increase in the supply of money will lead to a decrease in the purchasing-power (price) of money. Furthermore, this is the only effect of monetary inflation that the average economist or central banker cares about. Increases in the money supply are therefore generally considered to be harmless or even beneficial […]
An Investor’s Guide To Dividend Aristocrat ETFs – 10/2016
Amid heightened uncertainty about the global economy and rising interest rates, investors have become defensive and are seeking safe and stable investments. Dividend-focused products offer safety in the form of payouts and stability in the form of mature companies that are less volatile to the large swings in stock prices. The dividend-paying securities are the […]
Strong U.K. CPI Report To Fuel Larger GBP/USD Recovery
– U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) to Pick Up for First Time Since June. – Core Inflation to Climb to Annualized 1.4% After Holding Steady at 1.3% in August. Trading the News: U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) A material pickup in both the headline and core U.K. Consumer Price Index (CPI) may sap the bearish sentiment surrounding the […]
Overview Of The USD Strength: Trend Continuation Or Correction?
Video length: 00:09:54 The EUR/USD is expected to build a bullish ABC zigzag back to the 38.2% or 50% Fibonacci levels and make a bearish turn. The GBP/USD built a triangle after its 1,000 pip decline and is in a break or bounce spot. The AUD/USD bounced at 0.75 as expected last week and is […]
Ford To Idle Four Factories Due To Slowing Car Demand, Rising Inventories
Over the weekend we recapped some of the less than impressive moments in the recent US car industry history, which suddenly appears to be bombarded with a barrage of bad news: starting with Ford’s (F) disastrous August sales when the company admitted “sales have reached a plateau”, continuing to the surge in delinquent subprime auto borrowers hitting nearly a […]
Netflix Wallops Q3 Earnings With Big Beat, Plus IBM, UAL
After the bell Monday, Netflix (NFLX – Analyst Report) provided a huge Q3 earnings beat, doubling EPS expectations of 6 cents to 12 cents per share. Quarterly sales of $2.47 billion easily topped the $2.28 billion expected. Subscriber adds were the big story, typical of Netflix’s business model — 3.75 million net adds in the quarter far […]
