…on the five-year US Treasury note. It’s not a perfect comparison because the durations don’t match exactly, but it’s close enough to get the idea; the duration on the Treasury…
…course.’ The crowed laughed approvingly. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell -2.23 percent to $40.11 on news that OPEC decided against a product cut. OPEC has been increasing production to…
…in the separate publicly traded Yahoo Japan that is worth $8.5 billion and the $5.9 billion in net cash and short-term investments. Those three assets alone come to $46.4 billion,…
…an appeal and we would make another gift. We weren’t very proactive or even organized (which I don’t like admitting). That’s all changed because when you log onto the account,…
…healthcare, energy, technology, financials or consumer staples? Like the last question, this is impossible. The thinking behind my emerging markets pick leads me to pick energy, but it’s a real…
…men working full time year round (hey, that’s me!), median wages outpaced inflation. We’re still 2.5 percent below the 2007 peak, but another year like 2015 would more than do…
…to MSCI compared to 4.6 for the S&P 500. That’s a discount of nearly one-third. (Developed markets stocks are even cheaper – the price-to-book ratio for the MSCI EAFE index…
…conservative,’ should the have more stocks and what other institutional accounts were doing. I naturally went to my stock answer, which is, ‘it depends on client circumstances.’ My answer seemed…
…should be lowered by .5%. Both measures work in the other direction too, (higher inflation and GDP cause higher Fed Funds rates). In the simplest form of the equation, the…
…In this article, though, Hulbert looked at the price-earnings ratio, the cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio (or Shiller PE), the dividend yield, the price-to-sales ratio, the price-to-book ratio and the Q…
