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Mandeep Rai On
June 21, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The largest tech stocks, Facebook (FB, Rated “A-“), Amazon (AMZN, Rated “C”), Netflix (NFLX, Rated “C+”) and others in the acronym FANGMAN have become household names by getting all of the...
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Mandeep Rai On
June 21, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Tech stocks may have caught a breather last week, and the S&P 500 may have dipped. But investors didn’t miss a beat. They were busy flooding the stock market with new capital!
As of last...
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Remi Lukosiunas On
June 20, 201707:00 AM Eastern
The Federal Reserve approved its second interest rate hike of 2017 last week. It decided to bump the rate by an additional 0.25% to a new target rate of 1.25%. In the aftermath of this move, let’s...
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Mike Larson On
June 19, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Nobody saw THAT coming!
Amazon.com (AMZN, Rated “C”) shocked the entire grocery industry on Friday when it announced plans to buy the higher-end chain Whole Foods (WFM, Rated “C”) for $13.7...
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Mike Larson On
June 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Things can change fast in the stock market, and nothing makes that clearer than the action over the past week. Leaders are starting to lag, while laggards are starting to lead. And if I’m right,...
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Gavin Magor On
June 15, 201707:00 AM Eastern
If you own a car or a home, you most likely have a Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance policy to protect those assets. And as you might expect, the insurers writing those policies make a profit...
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Mandeep Rai On
June 14, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Let me come out and say right up front that I don’t usually cheer when stocks go down. After all, I am personally invested and generally become richer when markets go up.
But there are times...
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Remi Lukosiunas On
June 13, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week I talked about declining number of banks and how this downward pattern may leave us with fewer options to choose from. But our latest round of ratings gives us some encouraging news...
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Mike Larson On
June 12, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Over the last 10 years, global central banks have waged war on your income portfolio. They’ve slashed benchmark interest rates more than 667 times, and driven yields even lower with more than $12...
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Mike Larson On
June 9, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Okay, true confession time: I watch the bond market like a hawk. Nothing fascinates me more than interest rates.
That may not make me the most exciting cocktail party guest. But it has helped me...