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By Jessica Borg On August 8, 202106:00 AM Eastern
With the highly contagious Delta variant on the loose, COVID-19 infections are spiking in communities across the country. “I cannot emphasize this enough: I do not expect the economy to close...
By Tony Sagami On August 6, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I’m a big boxing fan. Muhammad Ali is the greatest, but I’ve always enjoyed the lighter-weight fights more. I watched every Sugar Ray Leonard fight, especially the epic battles against Tommy...
By Kelly Green On August 5, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I’ve been working on a project, taking a closer look at the performance of the S&P 500. It’s fascinating that it’s used as a benchmark of the stock market, and I’ve seen it used as a benchmark for...
By Mike Larson On August 4, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I was one of the biggest real estate bears on the planet in the mid-2000s. And boy did that sector crater during 2008’s housing bust.
That was then. Circumstances are completely different now....
By David Dittman On August 3, 202106:00 AM Eastern
You know what I haven’t heard a lot of lately? Grand pronouncements and/or aggressive denunciations of Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies …
It’s been a while since we heard from Jim Bianco or...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On August 2, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Until two weeks ago, Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, was meandering in a dull, sideways crawl.
It was stuck in a narrow trading range.
But now, all that has...
By Jessica Borg On August 1, 202106:00 AM Eastern
It may not be the prettiest scenario, but it’s the one every investor is facing. “We have this higher inflation, lower-yield world that we’re dealing with,” says senior analyst Mike Larson,...
By Tony Sagami On July 30, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Did you collect baseball cards when you were a kid? I sure did. Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers was my favorite player, and I desperately wanted his All-Star baseball card. I spent what seemed...
By Kelly Green On July 29, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I don’t normally get my news from Yahoo! Finance, but a recent headline caught my eye: “Consumer Confidence Hits a Pandemic-Era High.”
The basis for the headline was The Conference Board’s...
By Mike Larson On July 28, 202106:00 AM Eastern
A funny thing happened on the road to soaring internet rates ...
Lower interest rates.
Yes, it’s true. Despite extraordinarily hot readings on inflation ... news that the COVID-19 recession...