Nov 11, 2017 | Investments
High-yield bonds have become a hot story in the last few months, with many market participants wondering what the effect might mean on the broader market. DoubleLine Capital LP’s Jeffrey Gundlach and others have cited declines in high-yield bonds as a sign that U.S....
Nov 4, 2017 | Investments
Thursday afternoon this week produced key Q3:17 earnings results from Amazon, Alphabet, Intel, and Microsoft – and all reporting earnings beating expectations across the board. Google’s parent company Alphabet beat expectations on third-quarter results,...
Oct 17, 2017 | Investments
Last week, UK’s budget airline – Monarch Airlines went belly up stranding 100,000 passengers across Europe. Germany’s budget airline – Air Berlin filed for bankruptcy few months ago. For several weeks now, Irish carrier Ryanair has been cancelling...
Oct 7, 2017 | Investments
Just as the frequency and intensity of shootings in America seems to be picking up with every passing year, the size and scope of data breaches appears to be keeping pace. Target’s data breach in 2013 that put 70 million customer accounts at risk seems lame when...
Sep 23, 2017 | Investments
At a time when the Dow Jones industrial Average (DJIA), a widely watched index of 30 large U.S. company stocks, has been hitting records along with other indices, earlier this week, the famously optimistic, but usually quiet and conservative Warren Buffett, predicted...
Sep 2, 2017 | Investments
Gold has traditionally been a safe haven in tumultuous times. But even as gold investors are taking comfort from the recent rise in price in response to geopolitical tensions, the price movement of gold has been weaker than would have been expected from historical...