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Ask the Financial Expert: What Is the Yield Curve, and Why Should You Pay Attention?
Find out if the yield curve is still relevant for investors.
Ask the Financial Expert: Why It Might Not Be a Good Idea to Compare Your Investment Performance to the S&P 500
In this month’s column, our financial experts provide a brief overview of the Dow and the S&P 500 along with their thoughts on whether they’re good benchmarks to compare performance against.
Ask the Financial Expert: Should Commodities Be a Part of A Portfolio?
Recent headlines from Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg such as Stocks Slide with Commodities as China’s Manufacturing Slows and No End in Sight for Oil Gut might have you wondering why China’s activities matter so much. In this month’s column,
Ask the Financial Expert: How Much Risk Should I Take When Investing?
With so many headlines about low-risk investing and protecting your investments, you might be wondering how to invest your money. You’re not alone. Studies are showing that people are uncomfortable with taking risk and have gotten more risk averse sinc...
Ask the Financial Expert: When is it a good time to take on debt?
When you want something such as an education, a new car, a new TV, or a home, it’s not uncommon to take out a loan or even use your credit card. But is one form of debt better than another? Is there ever a good time to take on debt?
How Do You Make Sense of Contradictory Economic Reports?
Investors are presented with a myriad of economic reports (unemployment, GDP, inflation, earnings, and housing, just to name a few). So what numbers are important, especially when they contradict each other? This month,
Are Real Estate, Interest Rates and a Strong Dollar a Good Combination?
In this month’s Ask The Financial Expert column, our experts are tackling real estate. Will the Fed’s recent removal of “patience” have an impact on you? Is now the time to get in to real estate investing? These questions and more are answered.
Who Wins and Who Loses As Oil Prices Fall?
The entire globe is feeling the effects of historically low oil prices. But are low prices all good news? Listen to this month’s podcast to hear Ron’s and Mark’s perspectives on who’s benefiting and who’s not in the current oil craze.
Economic Thanksgiving: What Can Investors Be Thankful For?
Record highs of the S&P500, Black Friday, gas prices and improving unemployment are just a few things that top our list. Listen to this month’s podcast to hear Ron’s and Mark’s perspective on what else investors may be thankful for.
What’s Fueling Recent Market Turbulence?
The S&P 500 and the DOW are both down from their record highs in September. Throughout the summer, the markets indicated that something extraordinary had to happen in order for them to really move, so what happened?