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COMMERCE, Okla. — Fans who could never afford a $12.6 million 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card will soon be able to buy a share of the Commerce Comet’s boyhood home…

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This week’s chart looks at the massive divide between year-to-date returns on the Big 7 tech stocks and the rest of the S&P 500. Read the entire article: Concentrated equity…

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(Prescript: Please note that this is BEHIND us, not in front of us. ~jrs) Treasury bonds’ losses over the past three years have amounted to the worst bear market in…

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It’s been a rough half of the year for the S&P 500 — with it slipping nearly 3%. But that’s not stopping analysts from calling for an amazing next 12…

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We thought we’d first reflect on the stock market which — despite having to reckon with banking blow-ups, geopolitical tensions, and interest rate hikes over the last 3 months —…

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Here’s a little rundown of some of the possible rationale for the market weakness this week. ~jrs

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Millennials are in the driver’s seat when it comes to trading. And they’re betting big on a handful of favorite S&P 500 stocks. Tesla (TSLA), Apple (AAPL) and Amazon.com (AMZN)…

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The news of the (second) impeachment seems strangely pedestrian after the blowtorch intensity of Reddit vs. The Hedge Funds. The good news is that the hedge funds didn’t conspire with…

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Beats a second career of working as a Walmart greeter, right? -Jeff TOKYO — A 37-year-old Tokyo man who says he rents himself out to other people “to do nothing”…

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Massachusetts securities regulators filed a complaint Wednesday against the wildly popular trading platform operated by Robinhood Financial LLC, alleging the company aggressively marketed to inexperienced investors and failed to implement…

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A racing pigeon from Belgium has set a new record after being sold for €1.6m ($1.9m, £1.4m). New Kim, a two-year-old female, was initially put up for auction for just…

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U.S. single-family homebuilding raced to a more than 13-year high in September, cementing the housing market’s status as the star of the economic recovery amid record-low mortgage rates and a…

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Are you tempted to change your investment strategy because of the 2020 Presidential Election? You’re not alone. In a recent survey, 45% of investors said they plan to make changes…

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Last month, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research—the “scorekeepers” of economic recessions and expansions in the U.S.—marked the peak month of the previous expansion…

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Robinhood is marketed as a commission-free stock trading product but makes a surprising percentage of its revenue directly from high-frequency trading firms. It appears from recent SEC filings that high-frequency…

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Joe McLoughlin argues that developing a shorter-term sense of what is happening and being able to act on it might help enhance returns in the long run. Read the entire…

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There’s a reason that I think it’s foolhardy to put too much stock in the predictions of our so-called “experts” in times of duress. Their track record is often (ahem)…

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I’ve always been wary of group-think projections of the future. Man, did GS get this wrong. -Jeff Goldman Sachs to clients: whoops. Just six weeks into 2016, the New York-based bank…

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It’s been a really, really tough year for returns. According to data from Societe Generale, the best-performing asset class of 2015 has been stocks, whose meager 2 percent total return…

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Financial pundits routinely claim that inflation is much higher than the reported statistics. We hear, for example, that food prices have risen much faster than the roughly 1.5% increase in…

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