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Federal Reserve Rate Cut: Understanding the Reasons & Implications
Today, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 0.25%. The rate cut was anticipated by many due to sluggish economic growth abroad and softening economic growth at home. It’s important to note though
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Homeownership: Is It a Smart Investment in 2024?
Why buying a home might not be the great investment you think it is… People often think of buying a home as a great investment. After all, most of us have seen house prices in major metro areas
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October Market Performance: Key Drivers & Analysis
October Market-Movers – An Overview After a slow start, global equities marched higher in October, driven again by central bank monetary policy and encouraging signs in trade discussions with Ch
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ETF vs. Mutual Fund: Understanding the Key Differences
When constructing an investment portfolio, you’ll probably include a variety of stocks and bonds among the securities you purchase. Stocks and bonds can be purchased individually or as part of a bundl
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Weekly Market Update: Trade Deal Hopes & Equities Reach New Highs
This week, U.S. equities moved higher, quietly hitting all-time highs on hope that a “phase 1” trade deal with China could be nearing completion. But the week was filled with twists and turns, and on
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Market Update: S&P 500 Extends Winning Streak Amid Trade Optimism
The S&P 500 notched its sixth straight week of gains, the longest weekly winning streak in two years. Broad gains in the index were primarily driven by trade optimism over a phase 1 trade deal be
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Weekly Market Update: Social Media & Political Ads, US-China Trade & Economic Data
U.S. Markets declined modestly this week along with bond yields during a relatively quiet week of trading. Impeachment inquires continued throughout the week and the back and forth between the US and
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November Market Movers: Trade Deal Optimism & Fed Policy
The Trade War Stocks marched higher in November, driven by optimism for a “Phase One” trade deal with China and indications suggesting continued accommodative monetary policy from the Fed. Regarding t
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Socially Responsible Investing: Impact on Your Portfolio & Performance
Socially responsible investing is a hot trend for individual investors right now. In fact, according to Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing’s 2019 “Sustainable Signals” survey: 75% o
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Market Timing: Separating Fact from Fiction
This article was updated in February 2020 Market timing is an investment strategy that involves going in and out of the market or switching asset classes based on predictions that attempt to measure h
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Navigating Market Volatility: A Guide for Investors
Markets have been selling off sharply this week, primarily over concerns related to the coronavirus. On news of the virus spreading overseas to other countries like Italy and South Korea, the S&P
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Achieve $100K Savings by 25: A Personal Journey & Strategy
How I Saved My First $100K Last fall — after over 3 years of work — I successfully completed my goal of saving $100K at 25. Saving money has always been one of my biggest priorities. I owe that mindse
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Cash in Portfolio During Market Volatility: A Guide for Investors
These last couple of weeks have been wild ones for Wall Street, with the markets taking a nosedive and then staging comeback rallies before dipping again on coronavirus concerns. This kind of volatili
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COVID-19 & the Stock Market: Q1 2020 Impact & Recovery
In Q1 of 2020, the novel coronavirus, aka COVID-19, began to spread rapidly around the world. Due to social distancing requirements and widespread shutdowns of businesses, a bear market and recession
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Jully-Alma Taveras: Investing Latina - Empowering Women in Finance
Starting in March, which was Women’s History Month, we began profiling women in finance who are educating other women about investing. This month, we’re pleased to introduce Jully-Alma Tav
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Understanding Investment Fees: A Comprehensive Guide
Whether your investment portfolio consists of a 401k or multiple brokerage and retirement accounts, it is important to understand the fees associated with your investments which can dramatically lower
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Net Worth Calculator: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Health
Calculating your net worth is a multi-step process. Before you start, decide if you want to calculate net worth individually (you) or jointly (you and your spouse/partner). Also, get all your financia
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Investment Tracking: Tools & Strategies for Monitoring Portfolio Performance
Once you start investing, it’s exciting to track your progress. It makes a lot of sense to keep an eye on a new aspect of your finances and make sure things are going smoothly. The last few year
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Weekly Market Update: Regulatory Scrutiny & Positive Economic Signals
Markets wavered for most of the week, in the face of an uncertain U.S. government stimulus outcome. Ultimately though, investors showed strong optimism as markets largely closed positive from the prio
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Biden Presidency: Economic Impact & What It Means for You
This year’s Presidential election was yet another milestone in a year with a series of significant and dramatic events. In the 2020 U.S. election, nearly 160,000,000 voters — an estimated 66.4%
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WallStreetBets Insider: Why the Retail Trading Revolution is Just BeginningI joined the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit almost two years ago. But I was far from the image of the typical “bored, young Reddit trader” that h...
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Understanding Debt: Types, Impacts, and SolutionsTourists look inside the window of a pawnshop in Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 2007. See more debt pictures. The world is drowning in debt: personal debt, national debt, credit card debt, mor...
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Understanding Home Title Abstracts: A Comprehensive GuideA home's title is composed of a chain or collection of ownership documents, such as older deeds and land surveys, that trace its ownership history. The deed and title serve as proof of ownership. ...
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Goals vs. Resolutions: A Practical Guide to Achieving Your New Year's AspirationsWe’re getting close to that time when everyone starts looking ahead to the New Year and thinking about what they want 2022 to look like. And what’s interesting is that most people’s resolutions are t...