Today I’m opening a 6th trade, finally getting close to being fully invested:) There wasn’t much change last week and with the earnings season coming to an end, volatility will likely decrease significantly which is more than welcome. As is always the case you can see my …
Fire Engulfs Japan Rocket Test Site
Large plumes of smoke billowed from the launch site at Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, after a malfunction during an engine test. Source link
At least one dead and three injured near Vilnius
At least one person has died and three others have been injured after a cargo plane crashed near Vilnius airport in Lithuania in the early hours of Monday.The Boeing 737, operated for DHL by the Spanish cargo airline Swiftair, crashed near a house as it was on its final approach for landing, local authorities said.All 12 people have been safely evacuated from the property, police said.The cause of the crash is still unclear but the defence minister said there were no initial signs it was sabotage or terrorism. The aircraft departed from DHL's hub at Leipzig Airport in Germany just…
Russia Launches New Intermediate-Range Missile at Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin said the attack was in response to Ukraine’s recent use of American and British weapons to strike deeper into Russia. Source link
Weekly Crude Oil and Gold Futures Recap with Mike Seery
It’s time for our weekly commodity futures recap with our trading partner Mike Seery. He has been Senior Analyst for close to 15 years and has extensive knowledge of all of the commodity and option markets. And frequently appears on multiple business networks including Bloomberg news, Fox Business, CNBC Worldwide, CNN …
Oil Charts
Oil has bounced close to 20{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} off its recent lows, but one look at its longer-term chart shows that it still has a long way to go to get back to levels it was at just six months ago. At its lows, oil got down to 50{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} below its 200-…
Katy Perry likes Marvin Gaye and Often
Boy doesn’t she. Only Buzzfeed could ask a question like this and get a response. Their question to Katy Perry at the Grammy’s last night — What is your favorite song to have SEX to? The answer. Some Marvin Gaye but defintely “Often” by The Weeknd. Often is not a song…
Cheap, Fun Things Singles Can Do on Valentine’s Day
Will you find love this year? Get some friends together to share the cost of a psychic reading, and maybe you’ll find out. Photo: Patrick Emerson In Seattle, home to so many of the nation’s hipsters, Valentine’s Day has taken on some very unique incarnations among the singles …
Defiant Greek PM sets up EU clash with bailout rejection, austerity rollback
Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras laid out plans on Sunday to dismantle Greece's "cruel" austerity program, ruling out any extension of its international bailout and setting himself on a collision course with his European partners. In his first major speech to parliament since storming to power last month, …
Dow Sheds 100 Points as Greece, China Fears Trump Oil Bounce
Stocks tumbled today as Greece and Germany continue to be at odds over resolving the former’s debt crisis, while China said its imports slumped. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 95.08 points, or 0.5{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540}, to 17729.21 today, while the S&P 500 dropped 0.4{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} to 2046.74. The Nasdaq Composite …
Specialty drugs help CVS Health meet 4Q profit forecasts
CVS Health's fourth-quarter earnings climbed more than 4 percent in a performance that matched Wall Street expectations even though the pharmacy chain's decision to quit tobacco sales hurt business at …
10 Tips for Creating a Great Window Display for Your Retail Store
Whether or not you’re in one of the snow-burdened states of the U.S., February is the time all Americans’ thoughts (even here in Southern California) start to turn to Spring. Even if you and your customers can’t indulge in Spring fever just yet, you can start planning for …
Stimulating Tuesday – China’s at it Again
Thank you China, ;may I have another? Another $7.2Bn that is as those Godless Communists inject another round of stimulus into their Financial System to boost the markets and stave off deflation. ;That's right, as you can see from the prices in this Lianyungang supermarket, everything is on…
US pending home sales tumble in December
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy homes in December, a sign that low mortgage rates have yet to coax more buyers into the market.
How Do Child’s Benefits Affect Social Security Claiming Strategies?
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 …
Options Expiration – January 2015
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 …
Chase Ink Plus Business Card Review: Limited-Time 60,000 Rewards Points Bonus
Updated with new limited-time bonus bump to 60,000 points = $600 cash value = $750 towards travel. $95 annual fee. Expires 3/1. Chase’s newest small biz credit card is called the Ink Plus® Business Card. It turns out to be very similar to the Chase Ink Bold Business card (full …
4 Things Mutual Fund Managers Don’t Want You to Know – Motley Fool
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 to Watch: Stocks to watch: Oracle, Smith & Wesson, Family Dollar
Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday’s session are Oracle, Smith & Wesson, and Family Dollar.
Conrad de Aenlle’s Funds For Thought: Market conditions still don’t favor stockpickers
Columnist Conrad de Aenlle writes about an investment strategist who says this is a particularly good time to own index funds,
Stocks Start the Week on a Sour Note
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 …