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In case you were wondering this just in from Business Insider. No surprise here. Link below.
Trump's coronavirus travel ban excludes the countries where he has golf courses struggling for business
It could be tough finding that vaccine or treatment when the genius in charge spends his time disparaging and gutting the various agencies and professionals needed to find solutions and add calmness to the dissemination of credible information. I wi…
To me this looks like ASMIY provides/manufactures the equipment used by ASML in it's photolithography systems. Double-check to be sure.
From M* ASMIY - ASM International NV ADR
Company Profile
Based in the Netherlands, ASM International supplies s…
Dear Gary, I'm sure that many here are anxiously waiting for you to start initiating and posting discussions that meet your criteria. So far I see very few at all attempting to start new discussions of any sort, including me. My dad used to say that…
@JohnN - don't listen to me but I'm looking for the QQQ to hit 160 before I toss in a line. As for that list only 1 or 2 are of any interest whatsoever.
If the energy slaughter continues I would expect to see a number of companies filing for bankruptcy. I think Buffett is more likely to be a lender of cash, for future considerations of course, to either them or the takeover candidate. Those attempti…
For me the downside for day's like this (beside the painfully obvious) is that one only has a 50-50 chance on guessing what the next day(s) will bring. You will have no really reliable information on whether or not to add money to your conviction mu…
In John's defense there are a number of advisors and pundits still talking the sector up always figuring that it can't get any worse or go any lower. Someday they might be right.
I'm rewording this old saying about airline stocks to express my feelings about investing in oil companies today. The best way to make a million$$ in oil is to start with a billion$$.
All I can offer is that I have had excellent customer service and care, full bench of tools and a fairly large stable of investment options/funds at Fidelity for over 35 years and see no reason to change. My experience has been across a taxable brok…
My point and what I was trying to say is that if political bias, and by that I mean party affiliation, is a premise of management decisions then I want to know that upfront and center. Period. That to me is quite different from deficits and macroeco…
@msf - I don't argue with the paper. What I will say is that if the fund is managed that way then the shareholders should know that upfront. Although in real life it's probably unavoidable to escape political biases I'd prefer not to see them as a f…
Question - where is the author getting an 11% decline in the S&P 500 for the week? All the info I've been looking at shows that the S&P 500 was actually up 0.4% for the week and down YTD -7.6% ? Hard to gain mental traction with the rest of …
Is Your Mutual Fund Politically Biased? If so I would say they are not acting on the behalf of the shareholders. I would also hope that a smart, responsible fund manager would know enough not to make investment decisions based on politics or politic…
@rono - for new investments I am currently focused on all things/technologies associated with "Smart Anything". To me that includes alternative energy, AI, 5G, IoT, digital entertainment (content streaming, gaming and all like that), digital marketi…
@Derf - I believe it's the alcohol itself that my hands react to. Unusual but not uncommon. I have seen non-alcohol based sanitizers but I was curious what the good doctor might recommend.
There might be more. Was this included:
From the Root Report:
"Globally, women and young girls suffer most from hunger and poverty. Conservative estimates indicate that 60% of all chronically hungry people are female. This is further exacerbated by…
@Crash - you said "CIBC is potentially vulnerable because it holds a great deal, maybe the majority--- of "uninsured" mortgages in Canada. (per Morningstar.) I'm not sure I understand that, since here in The States, mortgage lenders insist on home i…
Structurally they're all pretty much the same but I have found PTY to be the most exposed to volatility in it's pricing. I use selloffs to buy more in bulk but generally just reinvest the distributions. You might find further information in the link…
@sma3 - Do you care to offer any advice to those of us who suffer an autoimmune reaction to alcohol-based hand sanitizers? I get the itching, blisters, swelling, peeling nearly the whole shebang.
@Mona - I can't find any precise data to answer your question. I suppose you could give them a call at (800) 645-3923. (Phone number obtained from the Fact Sheet)
Any one of those are possible @davfor. It may also be just a transfer of assets as the boomers pass away and who knows what the inheritors of their accounts/estates do with their new found wealth. Many research reports on that matter say that it isn…
So they say. Good luck getting affordable loans, mortgages etc. with that much less keeping up with everything else. Some do I'm told but far, far too many don't.
