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With thousands of people facing retirement each day, they are challenged with how to manage their income. Investing in bonds and living off income had been the common wisdom.
However, with interest rates on most bonds at historic lows, they provide ...
DATE: Dec 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Personal Finance
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
Just three days ago, the $11 billion auction of 10-year TIPS notes by the US Treasury priced with a yield of 0.89 percent, based on a survey of Federal Reserve Banks released by Bloomberg Financial.
The demand for the Treasury Inflation Protected Sec...
DATE: May 21, 2011
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Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
During times of inflation, the value of a dollar today is worth more than one in the future. Tuesday is a bit soon, but it illustrates the point. Conversely, when there is deflation the value of something might be less in the future. When that is the...
DATE: May 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
European regulators this week joined the UK, US, and Japanese regulators in an intense examination of possible price-fixing in LIBOR. Several leading financial institutions have been named in a series of suits filed in the US and abroad. Although law...
DATE: May 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
Like so many things in life, investing can be a zero sum game, one person gains from another person’s loss. The net effect is the total money on the table is unchanged. To some extent, recent gains in real estate investing have been the result of for...
DATE: Apr 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
Trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange has been light this month, very light. There has not been much trading activity in the traditional equity exchanges, back to pre-crises levels.
Not surprisingly the activity has been on the Chicago Board...
DATE: Apr 16, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
In an effort to reduce the influence of the Apple effect, the NASDAQ OMX Group has announced a ‘Special Rebalance’ to its NASDAQ-100 Index (NDX). The April 5 announcement has sent many investment managers, especially passive ones, into a tizzy. Apple...
DATE: Apr 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
There is substantial debate on the projected ending value of the S&P 500 Index for this calendar year, to calculate the possible gains to be made by investing in it. It is a work in progress as the year progresses.
The S&P Index climbed 4.3 percent ...
DATE: Apr 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
What had once been a fairly straightforward asset class focused on yields, maturity, and credit standing, global fixed income investing has now become an intense exercise to assess sovereign debts and currency changes.
There are now more than 100 ma...
DATE: Mar 12, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
It’s all about jobs. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics for the US Department of Labor issued statistics on the employment situation yesterday. They were encouraging and trending higher. The employment statistics out of the United States are closely ...
DATE: Mar 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Opinion Writer
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AUTHOR:
Patrice Horner
