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By Mandeep Rai On December 13, 201708:00 AM Eastern
My colleague Mike Larson just wrote about the Bitcoin Bonanza, and how the best-performing ETF in our database of more than 2,100 such products is a play on the cryptocurrency. But right below...
By Gavin Magor On December 12, 201708:07 PM Eastern
During the Great Financial Crisis, the biggest banks were some of the hardest to fall (or fail!) If you’re the type of person who prefers safer, smaller banks for your money – to help you sleep at...
By Mike Larson On December 8, 201708:09 AM Eastern
Forget triple-leveraged Exchange Traded Funds.
Ignore ETFs that bet on turbocharged foreign markets, red-hot sectors like semiconductors, or the historic collapse in volatility.
The year’s...
By Gavin Magor On December 5, 201709:16 AM Eastern
The banking business has been on a tear over the past few years — with loan growth accelerating, defaults falling, and stock prices rising sharply. On the latter count, things have really...
By Gavin Magor On November 30, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Nobody likes paying for insurance. That’s doubly true for insurance that doesn’t even cover YOUR life or property! But without one kind of coverage – called “private mortgage insurance” – many...
By Jon D. Markman On November 29, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It’s that time of the year again. Every holiday shopping season, the “retail apocalypse” discussion moves front and center.
In reality, it’s not so much an apocalypse as it is a rethinking of...
By Jon D. Markman On November 27, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Thanksgiving used to be about overeating, watching football on TV, and spending too much time and money at the mall.
However, for the past decade, bricks have been replaced by clicks. Online...
By Mandeep Rai On November 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Presidents get to deliver State of the Union addresses. But analysts like me have to settle for a bit less. With that in mind, consider this my “State of the Market” issue.
Let’s start with a...
By Gavin Magor On November 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If you’re at least 65 years old, you’re eligible for Medicare — the federal health insurance plan for people who worked in the U.S. and paid taxes for at least 10 years. The program includes a...
By Mandeep Rai On November 15, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When the going got tough in the markets last week, investors went shopping … in retail stocks! That tells me a profit opportunity could be brewing as we head into the key holiday season.
It’s no...