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Agree w/Ted's sentiment. And PRGTX closing is great news, b/c they march to their own drummer and don't hold many of the 'usual' tech names like other funds. I like that ... and hold it, too!
LOL! It will be joined by the retrospective of the 45 regime, tenatively entitled "#FAKE ________!"
(yes, I am not a fan of this administration ... or any in recent memory, for that matter)
@LewisBraham Hillary will receive a Profiles In Courage…
Just buy booze and/or pharmaceutical (esp. those w/depression or anxiety meds) stocks -- either equities or actual bottles of the stuff. And as you said, take care of you, yours, and those you care about -- b/c the "system" in DC is only looking ou…
Mooch is gone, per the NYT Breaking News. Supposedly new WH CoS Kelly asked POTUS to remove him, and he agreed.
Somewhere in DC, I'm sure Sean Spicer is giggling like a loon right now.
RAI got bought recently by British Tobacco, didn't they? Not sure when the symbol stops being traded, though.
I didn't notice Reynolds American Inc (RAI) in the article. But I checked Yahoo, and RAI is down about 2.25%.
His reboot of 'WSW' was/is a joke and a far cry from Uncle Louis' content and PBS' quality. I saw one episode and barely made it through the whole thing.
As to Mooch himself, I remember seeing him as a regular on CNBC over the years .... he comes…
I'm sure there are those who do trade on his (and others) recommendations, not understanding many things about the markets or those who pontificate about them on TV. But hey, it's not my money that's being invested in such cases!! :)
Years ago …
I put him up there with some of the equity/forex 'analysts' from Goldman -- ie, Tom Stolper -- who would issue a much-ballyhooed call on something and nearly every time it would immediately or soonafter go against them. You could be right about his…
I don't give a hoot about meeting any particular performance benchmark but my own.
If a fund I hold gains 16% and everyone else gains 25% in a given year, I am not worried; it's still a very solid rate of return imho. Conversely, if a given fund…
@Ted - yeah, and she (rightly) got raked over the coals on social media for whining about having to do her job. Did she think being US rep to the UN was a 9-5 M-F gig only?
@Crash - wonderful things, dictatorships & police states. :(
@MFO Me…
@Edmund: Good list. Speaking of which, NBR/CNBC did a spot tonight espousing the bullish benefits of a Korean conflict on .... wait for it ... defense stocks!
I was talking about this w/my trainer @ the gym this morning. Given everything else that the WH is facing at home (ie, Russia probes) our consensus was that launching anything against NK would reek of a 'Wag The Dog' scenario right now --- ie, mea…
That makes it more compelling to me. I am not one for market-cap weightings.
RSP now gets added to BRLIX (.15) on my list for possible 'broad market' places to throw money.
Like clockwork, HACK is back in the news. *yawn*
There's no correlation on cybersecurity events + cyber company stock prices. If that was the case, given the state of cyberINsecurity in the world, HACK would be four digits by now and everyone …
I sold my THQ position from my Roth yesterday. Reason, diversifying away from direct exposure to health care @ the moment ... I had the sell order open for several months, btw.
I have a shopping list of stocks I want to own / add to, but @ the mo…
Agreed, Ted. But hey, it gets people to click on the link! ;/
@MFO Members: "Investors Are Swarming" is somewhat misleading. The fund's inception date was 2/11/13, and with just 194.5 million in assets I don't think you could call that swarming…
That's .... beyond stunning. Wonder how many folks buying into this thing consider themself informed, educated, and/or "sophisticated" investors?
Let 'em play with their money; I have better ways of spending and investing mine.
Don't feel bad - while I didn't get burned by them directly, given the GFC and the sector's refusal to learn from its mistakes, because I don't trust them or their math, I refuse to own nearly anything from the banks or financial sector!
It may be s…
Excellent fund, which I own as my only direct tech sector exposure. Like that it's nicely global and more importantly, as I've said elsewhere in the past, doesn't hold the usual "top 10" tech companies like everyone else. In other words, it zigs…
No, I really, really don't.
What I do want is a currency-hedged fund that holds currency which itself is inversely-hedged. ;)
... but I'm sure some sucker(s) will leap at the opportunity to look like sophisticated & knowledgeable investors …
If they're rebalancing or perhaps modestly adding to positions (as the TRP guy is doing), okay. If they're going hog-wild and overloading existing positions or dumping massive AUM into new ones, given this was a 2-day "blip" in the grand scheme of…
I am very much aware all this could change in a moments notice with the market being so high, but thought I would report my surprise finding for those that think indexes are the only way to go.
Good points, and sure, there are some active funds tha…
Good to see some action on this issue -- which gives us "little people" without our own SuperPACs or paid-for legislators plenty of time to begin planning for how we'll endure and/or exploit the (next) Greater Financial Crisis when these rules blow…
Some good ones, to be sure. Mike Post indeed wrote many themes of my youth.
I'll toss in 'Airwolf', 'Miami Vice', and 'Renegade' as ones that should've made the cut, too. Come to think of it, Nelson Riddle's jazzy opening to 'Emergency' would b…
Yup. A grand historical case study in military if not also SIGINT history. One of my favourite battles to re-visit as an amateur historian.
BTW check out the Nimitz Greybook at the US Naval War College. Truly a superb "insiders view" of things …
Thx Ted. That's what the WT site says, but I didn't see it on either of the station's schedules, nor does my Tivo pick it up on the program guide. I'll see what tomorrow brings, though. Maybe they're wrong and I just need to schedule the recordi…
Sad that Maryland Public TV apparently dropped WT. My DVR hasn't been recording it for a while, and I'm unable to find it on scheduled in any other Maryland or DC public television station listings, either. ;/
Presumably OUT given all their account-related scandals at their banking arm. That said I have a trust account at the full-serve WFA and have had nothing but good experiences there and a rather good, low-key, non-pushy FA to work with. If he ever…
Prohibiting preferreds, munis (not that you necessarily should put them in an IRA), and other forms of relatively popular and 'safe' corporate debt in a retirement account? Is it me, or is that crazy? Heck even some of their brokers are questionin…
Insanity.
I make it a point of never investing in a fund that tracks an index developed by the fund company. IMHO the index thus becomes a marketing thing for the fund, not a benchmarking measure to track -- which I don't care about either.
IE: …
If you're worried about tracking, also run something like NoScript that prevents tracking scripts and ad networks from following you. It'll take a while to learn/configure (sometimes annoys me even today when a site doesn't work as expected b/c it…
