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Money & Investing: November 2013
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Saturday, November 30, 2013. Short Term Market Forecast. By: Scott Chan, Contributing Editor, Leeb's Market Forecast. The Jacksonville Business Journal. Has ranked D2 Capital Management in the top 25 of Certified Financial Planners in Jacksonville. The Firm is also a member of the Financial Planning Association of Northeast Florida. The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. The Southside Businessmen's Club. And the Beaches Business Association. Thursday, November 28, 2013. The benefits of time. To find out, ...
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Money & Investing: August 2013
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Active Non-Investment Grade Bond ETF Sports 8% Yield. An actively managed high-yield, non-investment grade bond exchange traded fund has held up remarkably well as interest rates rise. Bond investors should keep in mind that in a rising interest rate environment, various fixed-income assets will react differently. The AdvisorShares Peritus High Yield ETF (HYLD) has gained 7.3% year-to-date. HYLD has a 8.27%. Source: Tom Lydon, ETF Trends. The information contained in this arti...
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Money & Investing: The Pause Principle
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Saturday, December 7, 2013. By Scott Chan, Contributing Editor, Leeb's Market Forecast. Granted, stocks have been on a roll lately, up for eight weeks in a row and 11 of the last 13. In fact, they’ve been doing better than many would have thought possible given the range of weaker economic indicators that came in during the fall. But on balance, they’re not in nosebleed territory yet. The Jacksonville Business Journal. The Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. The Southside Businessmen's Club. BlackRock: The...
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Investing Insights: April 2015
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Thursday, April 30, 2015. High-Yield Preferred Stock ETFs for a Low-Rate Environment. By Tom Lydon, ETF Trends. With the economy essentially stalling out over the first quarter, diminishing the likelihood of an interest rate hike any time soon, investors may be tempted to steer toward attractive yield-generating assets, such as preferred stock exchange traded funds. However, while preferred stocks provide investors with an attractive source of yields, the assets are vulnerable in a rising interest rate e...
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Investing Insights: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Ride Those Real Estate Investment Trusts. By Richard Stavros, Investing Daily. Real Estate Investment Trusts are cheap now. The stocks have oversold, as investors overreacted to expected U.S. Treasury rate increases this year. Since the beginning of the year REITs are down 2.54% versus a 2% gain for the S&P 500. So, it’s possible that rate hikes will be more modest than expected. For example, during rate hikes REITs have generated an average annual return of 11.4% over the s...
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Investing Insights: Update on Municipal Bonds
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Update on Municipal Bonds. By Rodney Johnson, Senior Editor, Economy and Markets. Municipal Bonds. This boring corner of the investment arena generally has all the excitement of a pet rock circus, but recently that’s changed. The new worries in the muni market might be troubling for some, but they give the rest of us a chance to snag assets on the cheap. General obligation bonds state that the payments to bondholders are backed by the full faith and credit of the issuer, but in ...
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Investing Insights: January 2015
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Saturday, January 24, 2015. 8216;Super Bowl Predictor’ Says Patriots Could Deflate the Stock Market. By William Power, Wall Street Journal. The New England Patriots could deflate the stock market in 2015. Seattle is a bullish team since they are a postmerger expansion team in the National conference; such teams count for the conference they are in. 8220;It’s doing better every year,” says 88-year-old market strategist Robert H. Stovall of National Investment Services Inc. in Sarasota,...Last year’s...
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