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WSJ: Bank of America's unrealized losses could be a potential vulnerability.AMIR HAMJA/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Bank of America's stock skidded in premarket trading, with its losses outpacing big U.S. peers, amid concerns about whether unrealized losses on th…
A very non scientific measure is how the normally non reactive, stay the course Bogelheads are reacting. On a day when the markets are down big time no Bogelhead would think of posting anything about it. They know that they would be blasted by the …
After 5 pm, CST for FINVIZ , and for Global Indices, as their markets open around the globe.
Oh, darn it and I gave Bill Ray Valentine Friday off. (context FINVIZ 12:25PM PDT, I think)
The rags are putting out lists of who they deem to be at risk of fallout from SVB. Most of the banks are ones I don't hear people saying they use. But Ally is on most lists that I have seen and has been popular. This messy list is from MSN since it …
I knew you would ask and I can't find a link to prove it but one of the Percy's recounted their friendship with him and I left with the distinct impression that he enjoyed a bottle more than a bit. I seem also to remember growing up that there were …
@Crash - ;) couldn't help it. My accounts went from 2 to 1 person so half the coverage. I was slowly correcting as CDs matured so I didn't get it done in this one instance within the 6mo. grace period. I moved the remaining high yield savings but …
Well, you guys got me off my lazy, and I moved my last over the FDIC excess which produced a 5-day settlement window. (Technically still over a bit). So, should credit unions be safe if over $250K NCUA?
I notice that SIVLX has 9.88% exposure to China, but also 19.81% to Hong Kong. To what extent would exposure to Hong Kong be considered exposure to China?
Or Taiwan or Singapore?
Catch, I too appreciate your efforts. I must admit that over the years it has seemed to me that it is in fixed income discussions that you are most in your element. Perhaps I just appreciate you more at such times.
Them aliens ain't much sophisticated if they can be defeated by a snake first tested at China Lake in 1953. (I looked this up because, when I was working at China Lake in the 80s, Sidewinder was a major brag right. I knew the weapon series was reall…
Which makes me want to link a comment I shared in a MFO conversation about AI in 2019. The story's timeframe is middle 1980s. Maybe my colleague was closer to correct than myself. In that - I envisioned the AI bridging the pitfalls of creativity, no…
Poor guy. How will he ever get by. Maybe he will need to claim EITC. Which was a joke but we always hear about zillionaires paying zero taxes. If they show minimal taxable income do they qualify for government subsidies?
Imagine what the Bushes, Clintons and Obama must have inadvertently mistaken for toilet tissue and hoarded in their bathroom cabinets. Does make one wonder about the sluggish responses of former xxTUS workers. Are they just slow or lazy?
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For future government employees, including those working as or for xxTUS, I hope a lesson is being learned. I find the two cases to be different but, still, they both are also stupid (and I hate stupid in people who should be more). I remember how m…
@TheShadow Yea, I almost put a chunk of money into one of those NFCU 5%s today. Went as far as to login and start the transfer. I bailed remembering previous high percent teasers followed by lower than PenFed type rates when the short period was ove…
Been thinking of putting my investments at higher risk so my attention and anxiety is diverted to something that feels a bit more under my control. I need a break from worrying about my country, its people, its liberties, its sanity, its morality, i…
As someone who has employed personnel with the sole purpose of adapting bureaucratic reports to the issue at hand, I find this potentially very useful. As in - Every office should have at least one. Could it displace all activity in this category? E…
What am I missing here? Shouldn't that money go back into the bankruptcy to be distributed to the investors? Charity is good, don't get me wrong but that money was obtained, presumably, through fraud. It isn't the individual politician's money to gi…
I saw one of the first test flyovers of this plane in '69 when I first moved to Portland, OR. Now that I am back in the Pacific Northwest, I wish I could see the maiden flight of the last one. Perhaps my BIL who works for Boeing in Everette can arra…
Maybe this thread over at retire-early might ease your mind. Everyone, or many, with older hotmail accounts started getting spammed like crazy several weeks ago. I set my hotmail account to block all incoming email except email from my brother-in-la…
