Month: January 2022

If you are a stock investor who likes companies with good fundamentals, then a strong balance sheet is important to consider when seeking investment opportunities. By using three broad types of measurements—working capital, asset performance, and capital structure—you may evaluate the strength of a company’s balance sheet, and thus its investment quality. A firm’s judicious
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Spotify said it would add “content advisory” warnings to podcasts that discussed Covid-19, as the streaming service responded to a backlash against its popular podcaster Joe Rogan. The company, however, has not removed the December 31 episode of Rogan’s podcast that has triggered the ire of hundreds of doctors and scientists, as well as musicians
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Sharing is Caring! by missing_the_point_ Economic intervention since 2008 has fueled Wall Street’s greed, caused significant inflation, widened income & wealth gaps, & is responsible for a completely broken labor market – All to help the rich get richer. For the past year, we’ve placed a lot of focus on attacking Citadel and other short hedge
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AllianceBernstein has partnered with Vestmark, Inc., to provide a digital separately managed account platform that allows registered investment advisors to create more bespoke muni portfolios within a matter of days. The Custom Municipal SMA Solutions platform combines AllianceBernstein’s fixed-income trading tool, AbbieOptimizer, with Vestmark’s ability to access timely and accurate fixed-income tax-lot data from custodians
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In today’s global economy, consumers are used to seeing products from every corner of the world in their local grocery stores and retail shops. These overseas products—or imports—provide more choices to consumers. And because they are usually manufactured more cheaply than any domestically-produced equivalent, imports help consumers manage their strained household budgets. Key Takeaways A
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Market volatility has curtailed corporate America’s ability to raise cash through public share sales, one sign of how the prospect of tighter policy from the Federal Reserve is already rippling out from the central bank’s Washington headquarters. Gauges of US financial conditions are showing that it is becoming slightly harder and more expensive for companies to
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Sharing is Caring! by David Brady via Sprott Money I’ll get straight to the point. There is little to justify the dump in precious metals and miners in this environment. The Fed is at risk of a major policy reversal due to the persistent dump in stocks. What happens every time they turn on the monetary spigots? Metals
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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced the commencement of an in-house effort to expedite blockchain development and innovation across 15 zones and 164 entities.  The initiative aims for the large-scale implementation of blockchain technology across businesses and government organizations in China.  The CAC, along with other government agencies, directed the regulatory authorities to “promote
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By Richard Eisenberg, Next Avenue Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but filing your 2021 tax return may be one frustrating experience — especially if you’re expecting to get a refund. Recently, U.S. Treasury Department officials conceded in a phone call with reporters that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will face “enormous challenges” this
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The Puerto Rico Oversight Board has discussed completing the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority restructuring without a local law supporting it, because members of a territorial Senate panel appear opposed to such legislation. The board reached preliminary terms with the bondholders on a Restructuring Support Agreement in spring 2019. As currently proposed, the Puerto Rico
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[embedded content] With tensions mounting on the Ukrainian-Russian border, all eyes around the world are on the U.S. and how the Biden Admiration would respond to any geopolitical escalations in Eastern Europe. Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital and former White House Communications Director, said that any failure to respond to Russian aggression by the
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Gold is about to break out, and the move up will be very powerful…  by Egon von Greyerz of Gold Switzerland It seems that 2022 will be the year when the US Empire disintegrates faster than anyone could have imagined. Empires need strong leadership but electing a weak octogenarian president certainly fits the picture of
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There are thousands of companies that trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq. These companies range from the leviathan Apple to the smaller, more inconsequential companies, with market capitalizations of less than the price of a car. Every last one of those companies had to start somewhere. They each sprang to
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Statistics come in different kinds and each can be used to tell its own story. Rising inflation has made such variations even more obvious. Movements in the consumer price index — the UK’s main measure — aim to capture changes in the value of money. The CPI does less to highlight the specific challenges facing
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One year after Robinhood found itself at the center of the meme-stock tempest, the retail brokerage now finds itself with another set of challenges that could prove even more difficult to overcome. On Thursday, the Silicon Valley startup reported fourth-quarter revenue and losses that were worse than analysts’ estimates, and its stock, already down 69%
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