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By Mike Larson On August 5, 202005:11 PM Eastern
Fifty-four companies defaulted on their debts in the second quarter of 2020. That was the most for any three-month period since 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession.
It gets worse. The...
By Sean Brodrick On July 30, 202005:43 AM Eastern
I’ve been pounding the table about how negative real interest rates are firing up gold. The reason is that with bonds yielding so little — and less than zero when you figure in inflation — it...
By David Dittman On July 20, 202005:15 PM Eastern
Way back when I first started out in this business, around the turn of the century, there was this guy who’d walk around the office saying/asking/blurting, “Are you bull or bear?”
He did more...
By Jon D. Markman On July 20, 202001:20 PM Eastern
Investors shouldn’t pay too much attention to politics. It clouds their judgement. That said, something big is happening — a new political talking point is making the rounds on both sides of the...
By Juan M. Villaverde On May 22, 202002:21 PM Eastern
Bitcoin’s (BTC, Tech/Adoption Grade “A”) third halving is behind us, and crypto assets continue to adjust to a market changed by another hard-coded supply limit imposed on its biggest player.
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By Mike Larson On May 20, 202004:56 PM Eastern
Investing is a tough business. If it wasn’t, it’d be called “winning.”
The last thing you want to do is make things harder on yourself. And I feel like that’s what too many are doing in stocks...
By Sean Brodrick On May 12, 202005:00 AM Eastern
“I don’t care about Hamlet when there’s hundreds of thousands of people sick and dying. It just doesn’t feel important,” says Bedford, NY senior Ethan Karas.
He’s not the only one. COVID-19 has...
By Mike Larson On May 6, 202003:26 PM Eastern
Uncle Warren. The Oracle of Omaha. America’s greatest investor.
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett has been called many things over the years.
After founding his insurance-dominated...
By Sean Brodrick On May 2, 202007:00 AM Eastern
Gold gave back some gains this week. The reasons are threefold, and I’ll talk about each of them in a bit.
But there’s a force lining up to push gold much higher, and you need to know about...
By Mike Larson On April 29, 202005:00 PM Eastern
First, the junk bond market boomed.
Next, it went bust.
Then, the Federal Reserve bailed it out.
Finally, that sparked a new mini boom.
More than anything else in recent weeks, THAT...