If you wanted to own gold in the bad old days, there were only a handful of choices: You could take physical delivery (but if you needed...
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A rollicking week in the markets is really a chance to clean up your act Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, August 28 2015 ...
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click for larger graphic The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is market-capitalization weighted, meaning that...
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I want to address the addition of Apple to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, so we have to get a few things out of the way up front. The...
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Fiscal Hawks Should Love Cheaper Retirement Plans Changes in rules governing retirement-plan managers and advisers will lower their fees,...
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Fantastic explanatory from the FT on the history of passive investing: click for ginormous infographic Source: FT
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Here’s some funky stuff for the day: • The Bespoke Boys point out that 23.8% of the S&P500 381 "no longer fulfill the $5...
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Fascinating stuff: Of all the lousy bourses, the SPX (White line below) is the least lousiest! >click for bigger chart...
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With GM now at 53-year lows, its time to revisit the question. Back in November, we asked "When Does GM Get Kicked Out of the...
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