Category: Finance

Options Expiration – January 2015

  • February 10, 2015
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I had more option contracts make it all of the way to today’s expiration than I’ve had in a very long time.  Coming into the day, I had one DIS January $90 naked put ($285.51 profit), two UWM January $73 naked puts ($1,160.09 profit), two UWM January $75 …

How Do Child’s Benefits Affect Social Security Claiming Strategies?

  • February 10, 2015
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A reader writes in, asking: “If I have a young child, how does that affect the age at which I should be filing for my Social Security?” Before getting into how claiming strategies are different for people with qualifying children than for people without qualifying children, we must …

4 Things Mutual Fund Managers Don’t Want You to Know – Motley Fool

  • February 10, 2015
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Wall Street Journal4 Things Mutual Fund Managers Don't Want You to KnowMotley FoolInvestors often include mutual funds in their retirement portfolios because mutual funds provide a quick and easy way to invest across a large number of companies, even if one is investing only a small amount. The problem, …

Stocks Start the Week on a Sour Note

  • February 10, 2015
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Today’s light volume session kicked off the week with the broader market moving to the downside.  The light volume on the NASDAQ and NYSE simply indicates there was not a full scale assault on stocks by institutional investors.  On the positive side of things, the S&P 500 was able to …

Alaska May Provide Solution To Tar Sands Issue

  • February 10, 2015
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The U.S. Congress is nearing final approval of a bill that would green light the Keystone XL pipeline. But with the President set to veto the legislation when it reaches his desk, the ability of companies in Alberta to get their tar sands oil out of the country looks …

Global growth report card: Eurozone and Japan recovering

  • February 10, 2015
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This blog presents the first in a regular series of monthly report cards on the state of global economic activity. The real time activity growth rates are derived from the latest Fulcrum “nowcasts”, based on dynamic factor models. These nowcasts, estimated by Juan Antolin Diaz and colleagues, combine a …

British Revised GDP – 1st Quarter

  • February 10, 2015
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This Friday the British Revised GDP figures are scheduled to be published at 8:30 GMT. This data release is a measure of the alteration in the value of services and goods that are produced by the British economy in each quarter. In most cases an equal or better than forecasted result…

Tell Tale Signs of a Correction

  • February 10, 2015
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The rough stock market performance in January 2015 increased the bearish sentiment, and while some are warning of a severe 15{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} or more correction, others think we are already headed for a bear market. The very weak close on Friday, January 30 did not help as many bulls were holding their breath …

Gauging the financial crisis end game

  • February 10, 2015
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It is quite possible that more than one end game will unfold in the months and years to come. For example, we could see a Greek Eurozone exit. Simultaneously, we could have a crisis unfolding across emerging markets, as the strong U.S. dollar begins to do damage to borrowers …