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By Tony Sagami On November 20, 202006:10 PM Eastern
I know what is like to be poor. At one point in my life, my mother and I lived under a bridge and ate out of garbage cans for three months in Tacoma, Wash.
But thanks to four decades of 60-plus...
By Tony Sagami On November 13, 202011:46 AM Eastern
When I was a 30-year-old newbie retail stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, I thought I knew everything. You couldn’t tell me anything. But looking back, the only thing I really knew was the sales jargon...
Equity market indexes exploded today on news that Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) have developed a vaccine that’s more than 90% effective against COVID-19 “among those...
By Kelly Green On October 29, 202004:57 PM Eastern
I am one of those people who is anxious to get back to traveling. I’m used to spending the weekend in the Florida Keys, or on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Plus, I had plans to spend quite a bit of...
By Tony Sagami On October 23, 202012:10 PM Eastern
Try not to laugh ... I owned a white polyester suit and took disco dance lessons when I was a student at the University of Washington in the 1970s. It’s sad, but true.
Paramount Pictures...
By David Dittman On October 20, 202004:28 PM Eastern
I thought I’d strike a “price of everything, value of nothing” pose about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vis-a-vis Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and the...
By Kelly Green On October 15, 202004:04 PM Eastern
We all know that there are “Apple people” and “non-Apple people.” Last year, approximately 45% of smartphones in use were Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL, Rated “B”). I happen to be a Samsung gal through...
By Mike Larson On October 14, 202012:51 PM Eastern
“Your account was just credited $X amount after stock so-and-so paid a dividend of $X.”
I love getting emails like this. Afterall, who doesn’t love seeing a credit in their account?
In this...
When the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates and printed a mountain of money in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, they said these steps were only a temporary emergency measure.
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By Sean Brodrick On September 24, 202005:30 AM Eastern
We’ve seen two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first peaked in April (in the U.S., anyway). The second peaked in July. Now, cases are ticking up again. And that’s happening just as we head...