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Michael Snyder: Where have we seen this before? Bond yields soar above the 7 percent danger level. Check. The stock market crashes to new lows. Check. Read more…
Eric Dutram: There are a number of misconceptions when it comes to ETF liquidity. Many investors believe that if a product doesn’t trade enough shares it will be impossible to invest in the product as a result. Read more…
Stocks ended the session mostly higher on mixed trade. The Nasdaq showed relative strength for the second consecutive day as it posted a 0.8% gain. Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 tacked on 0.3%, while the S&P added a modest 0.1%. Read more…
Accent Asset Management CEO Scott Martin explains why you shouldn’t invest in the financial sector, although he does budge a bit when questioned about the Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Stocks endured another day in red territory as weaker-than-expected corporate performance results on the homefront took their toll on investors’ confidence. Industry bellwethers, including auto giant Ford, are taking a hit on bottom line revenues Read more…
Michael Snyder: The cracks in the ice are getting bigger. At this point it is really hard to have much confidence in the global financial system at all. They told us that MF Global was an isolated incident. Well, the horrific financial scandal over at PFGBest is essentially Read more…
Jeff Nielson: On the same morning we hear that ¼ of Wall Street executives think that fraud is a necessarypart of “doing business” in the financial sector, we hear of a second “MF Global”. The U.S.’s so-called regulators are now reporting that somewhere Read more…
Michael Snyder: We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous. It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years. Barclays has already been fined Read more…
Michael Snyder: If you went out and took a poll of the American people on July 4th (Independence Day) and asked them if they are free, what would the results look like? Of course the results would be overwhelmingly lopsided. Most Americans believe Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: With half of 2012 behind us, let’s take a quick check of what the Sector Rotation Model is suggesting, both from a Year-to-Date perspective and from the 2012 peak so far. Read more…
Jeff Nielson: There is more outrageous news out concerning the Western banking cabal, the crime syndicate otherwise known as our financial sector. The news was not that these banksters have openly admitted that they willingly/gleefully participated Read more…
Diane Alter: Late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury wasn’t referring to investors when he said, “you’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down,” but he might as well have been referring to the upcoming fiscal cliff in 2013. Read more…
Michael Snyder: What is the biggest economic problem that the United States is facing? Very simply, our biggest problem is that we have way too much debt. Over the past Read more…
Diane Alter: Moody’s ratings agency issued five U.S. bank downgrades Thursday and a total of 15 cuts for global institutions, but markets shook off the news. Read more…
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