• Dealing With Challenging Return Expectations In Bond ETFs

    Dealing With Challenging Return Expectations In Bond ETFs
    The nature of investing is one that we are constantly looking in the rear-view mirror to anticipate what our expectations are for the future.  This often leads to considerable hopes that existing trends will extend indefinitely or that we will be able to easily spot any rough spots on the road ahead.Bond investors
  • All Eye On GDP And OPEC

    All Eye On GDP And OPEC
    Ahead of the opening bell today the second read on Q3 GDP was released and results were even better than the last time around Growth of 3 2 pushed past the 3 threshold from 2 9 in the first installment This is the back half growth analysts had been looking toward since calendar year 2016
  • Poll Results: Are UK Prices (Inflation) Rising?

    Poll Results: Are UK Prices (Inflation) Rising?
    By all logic when a currency depreciates sharply, especially one that is a net importer of goods, domestic prices will rise. Those who think otherwise are living in a dreamland but so far the UK seems to have had a free ride despite a sharp drop in the British pound since the vote to Brexit. In yesterday’s article,
  • The Underlying Reason behind the Rally

    The Underlying Reason behind the Rally
    Many people have been surprised by the stock market strength following the election of Donald Trump, and many of them are searching for reasons.There are a few obvious ones, but it is quite possible that the strength of this rally is not down to the broad range of policies proposed during the campaign, nor by an
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  • Dollar Comes Back Mostly Firmer, But Focus Is Elsewhere

    Dollar Comes Back Mostly Firmer, But Focus Is Elsewhere
    The US dollar correctly lowered yesterday, but most of the selling was over by the end of the Asian session, and the greenback steadied in Europe and North America.   The dollar is firm against the euro and yen but within yesterday's broad trading ranges.  The Australian and Canadian dollar's gains from yesterday
  • Laser vision

    Laser vision
    Lasers have been around since the 1960s, but today's highly accurate versions are transforming surgery, computing, engineering and mapping.

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