Category: Stocks and Bonds
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S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report
NEW YORK, July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — S&P Dow Jones Indices (“S&P DJI”), one of the world’s leading index providers, announced today that, for S&P 500® companies with full reporting information for 2014, the percentage of sales from foreign countries increased after five years of stagnation. According to S&P DJI’s annual S&P 500 Foreign Sales Report,…
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Ladies: How Money Wise Are You?
Investment Advisor Seeks To Debunk Myths About Women And Money It’s a perplexing situation. Women control half of the wealth in the United States, yet studies have shown that many of them are convinced they are lacking when it comes to understanding finances. Too often, in their eyes they aren’t capable of making prudent investment…
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Stock Market Speculation with Inverse ETF’s
An inverse exchange-traded fund is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), traded on a public stock market, which is designed to perform as the inverse of whatever index or benchmark it is designed to track. These funds work by using short selling, trading derivatives such as futures contracts, and other leveraged investment techniques. By providing, over short…
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Great Bear of Wall Street – Jesse Livermore
Jesse Lauriston Livermore (1877 – 1940) was known as the “Great Bear of Wall Street”. He made and lost several fortunes in the stock market using a system he began to develop at age fourteen when he held an entry-level position at a brokerage in Boston. He analysed price and volume data and became expert…
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Short Seller Speculation
An investor can do only one of two things: buy or sell. Establishment brokers, investment bankers, founders and stock promoters are all on the sell side to public investors: the widows and orphans. Generally, insiders acquire shares for next to free from the company’s treasury. They spend energy and money to market these shares to…
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Protecting Your Portfolio In A Turbulent Market
Investment experts who predicted a turbulent stock market this year have seen their prophecies come true. One of the more recent examples came when a spike in long-term interest rates unnerved investors, sending major U.S. stock indexes on a downward clip. The volatility is expected to continue, and the dramatic ups and downs could leave…
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Winning the Money Game
The Prevailing Principle to Win the Money Game The Power of Compounding Pre-Tax Contributions and Accumulations: For example, a 10% return over 30 years will produce 4 times the accumulation of a 5% return. With marginal income tax rates approaching or exceeding 50 percent, interest in tax deferral has spiked. Many are familiar with the…
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A Foreign Account for Your IRA
Setting up a foreign account without Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) or distribution tax problem: Self-Directed IRA If you search around on the web, you will find that there are many companies offering Self-Directed IRAs. You will find little actionable information on government regulated, registered and recognized foreign pension funds, investment accounts or brokerage accounts.…
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Where oh where is the Millionaire?
Money moves around the world faster than ever. And millionaires, it turns out, are becoming just as global. Climbing stock markets and rising real estate values helped create nearly 500,000 new millionaires in the U.S. in 2014, according to one of two new reports. In one new study from global real estate consultant Knight Frank…