Shares in Mickey Mantle’s boyhood home soon on sale for $7 – ESPN
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…
Concentrated equity market persists in 2023 | FS Investments
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…
Treasury-market selloff has become the worst bond bear market of all time, according to BofA — TradingView News
(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…
S&P 500: Analysts Predict A 19% Surge Soon — Lifted By 10 Stocks | Investor’s Business Daily
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…
Chartr Newsletter: Mar 27, 2023
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 —…
Stock Market Loses The Fight; Bank Shutdown Affects Whole Sector | Investor’s Business Daily
Here’s a little rundown of some of the possible rationale for the market weakness this week. ~jrs
S&P 500: Millennials Are Trading Like Crazy — Here’s What They’re Buying | Investor’s Business Daily
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)…
The Algebra of Wealth | No Mercy / No Malice
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…
‘Rent-a-person who does nothing’ in Tokyo receives endless requests, gratitude – The Mainichi
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”…
Massachusetts Regulators File Complaint Against Robinhood – WSJ
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…
New Kim: Racing pigeon from Belgium sold for record €1.6m – BBC News
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…
U.S. single-family homebuilding, permits surge to more than 13-year high | Reuters
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…
Thinking of Changing Your Portfolio Because of the Election? Think Again.
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…
Is the U.S. Recession Over? | Iris
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…
Robinhood Is Making Millions Selling Out Their Millennial Customers To High-Frequency Traders | Seeking Alpha
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…
Tactical asset allocation
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…
5 worst investment calls of this century
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)…
Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016 – Bloomberg Business
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…
2015 was the hardest year to make money in 78 years
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…
Why Inflation Is Lower Than You Think
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…