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86-72 UConn beats 'Bama. But that game was closer than the score at the Final shows. Championship game: Purdue vs. Connecticut. Gotta shut down that tall drink of water!
"Notes with a pencil? again, are you serious? notes are entered into the system so the next customer rep can see them."
I'm afraid that I have to agree with Crash on that one. I just had to knock heads at our neighborhood San Francisco office to ge…
"RELIABILITY, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, ACCURACY, DEPENDABILITY"
The above are serious accusations...based on what? If this is true Schwab would be shut down. Millions have been using Schwab for years, including several posters...maybe it's you?
Notes w…
@Crash- Well, that's a different kettle of fish, and I certainly have to agree with you. In most large businesses the concept of decent customer service is now an anachronism. Again though, being required to use Schwab chat because of my hearing iss…
@FD1000
Hand-holding, I don't need much. What has gone missing is RELIABILITY, CONSCIENTIOUSNESS, ACCURACY, DEPENDABILITY, and Customer Rage And Aggravation agents who can THINK. I also think it's disgraceful that employers won't ALLOW employees to …
The "hot" jobs numbers released by gummint was mentioned by Summers. He's pushing for a rather higher neutral rate. I giggle at the jobs numbers, anymore: most of the hires are part-time. No vacation, no benefits. Because employers can get away with…
Seek, and ye shall find. TAKE, and ye shall have. Giggle. My interactions at Schwab so far have not been egregiously awful, just rather typical, including the need to explain a problem 12 ways before they can comprehend what's going on. I even was a…
Go, Wolfpack men!
......2nd Half: can't stop those Purdue 3s. Stinky poopy. Z. Edy has committed a bunch of turnovers. Surprises me. NC State is blowing layups and easy shots when they get the chance.
Kahneman is correct. I've done it to myself, I admit. These days I try to be more patient, more judicious, with lower expectations. I am fond of saying that "Mr. Market" always overreacts, both to good news and bad. Because what is the Market, if no…
Listen to my head explode. Idiots with no soul in charge. I read the CNN article. The other's text was blurred.
...OK, so two separate States, two different venues.
...And TS is up 2% today to a 52-week high. Share buy-back underway. Those re-bought shares are to be canceled. Laughing and weeping here at the same time. It's my smallest holding, almost.
So, the "Schwab guy" downtown simply dropped the ball. So, we'll do an indirect Rollover, ourselves. We found out over the phone that the only way to get our money out of there is by filling out a form and sending it back to them at Bruce. That is, …
44% of AUM in top 10 holdings. THAT'S conviction. Top holding is almost 8% of the whole pie. If I myself failed to rebalance, I might get to 8% with a single stock, and it would be not very smart to let that happen. He's got $433 million to play wit…
The Trump tong: dueling lawsuits. (Oops, someone beat me to the punch, above.)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/02/trump-media-sues-its-co-founders-accuses-them-of-severe-mismanagement.html
There is, after all, an off-topic discussion category here. That would include stuff that's explicitly political. Reps and Dems used to be able to agree to disagree in a friendly manner. Actually, I know and get along with people from both Parties, …
That is just bond terminology for price quotes. Par/face value is 100 or 100%, 90.00 would be 90% of face value, etc.
That's what I needed. Thanks, Yogi.
OK, I'm at the lovely webpage at Schwab showing featured CDs. I haven't used the search function yet. Where do they hide the notation which tells me that a particular CD is non-callable? Everything you might need to know is hidden, on the Schwab sit…
@Crash - Why not buy brokered CDs? I can easily search for and buy the highest yielding CDs at Fidelity, and I assume Schwab has similar offerings. They are all FDIC protected.
Hello!
I have looked into that prospect, just briefly. What I saw scared…
Good Grief. And we share the country with these nutjobs. And let them vote. Like they're normal people.
A rose by any other name... I've been preaching that for so many years!
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Understood. As for me, no CDs. One big reason is that one of our CUs puts a severely low limit on the amount of cash you can give them in order to get that 5%.
And the other CU? ridiculously low offered rates.
Unless the bottom falls out, my …
I would add T to the likes of BA. I am seeing more and more companies follow BA model; it is just that when their products fail, there is no spectacular mass deaths. So, may be there is a corporate culture degradation more than we are willing to a…
"I think our elected politicians are the rascals that allow all these shenanigans continue."
"Rascals" and "shenanigans" is a MUCH too gentle terminology.
And our tax dollars pay their salaries. How many are already millionaires, eh? How many of the…
Yes, gotcha. I am just looking at the 5-year performance. It lands in the top 7% of category, but at +1.89%, it doesn't seem worth the trouble, eh? Of course, the Covid-put is a big piece of that picture. ...Going back FIFTEEN years, it's up by 4.2%…
DODIX -32% for first quarter. Today -.64 %. The perils of yield chasing.
M* is not the most reliable, but they show DODIX down for the 1st Quarter by -0.96%. the one-day number you posted jives, yes...
Stock Rover shows YTD DODIX -0.3%.
Bloo…
I'd normally cheer for CT. .... I must put my hopes on NC State. An underdog, perhaps. But I want them to kill Purdue. Because Purdue "killed" my Bulldogs.
