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During recent Congressional testimony, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said she’s looking carefully at moving to a negative federal funds rate.As income investors, we must protect ourselves from this...

India grabbed the headlines recently when it announced its GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2015 at 7.3%. For the fiscal year ending March 2016, India should report growth of 7.6%.Nonetheless,...

The S&P 500 was last near its all-time highs in mid-July 2015. Since then, what do you think has been the worst-performing sector of the U.S. stock market?You may have guessed the energy sector,...

China has been weak for some time, and the main reason for its current weakness boils down to its loss of a major source of growth – cheap manufacturing labor.It was this advantage –...

Don’t call it a comeback, but stocks refuse to be put down.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) snapped a five-day slide last Friday as hopes for crude oil production cuts outweighed global...

Believe it or not, one of the biggest victims of falling energy prices has been the recycling industry.The problem is that, from a bottom line perspective, recycling doesn’t always make economic...

By now, we’re all familiar with the oil share war initiated by Saudi Arabia against other oil producers, mainly the United States. Investors are still trying to adjust to all the ramifications...

It’s a true tell of the state of the markets, when a tired old story sends oil rocketing about 10% higher in priceIn this case, that “tired old story” is Venezuela calling for an...

The message coming from central bankers is clear: The beatings will continue until morale improves.If the global equity markets don’t perform well, negative interest rate coercion will be meted...

We all know how troublesome rumors can be.No matter how unlikely a rumor may be, there’s always someone who will latch on and run with it. The same is true in the stock market. Take, for...

For months now, the correlation between stocks and crude oil has been discussed ad nauseam.Excluding the energy sector, the S&P 500 Index typically moves inversely to the price of “black...

The downturn in commodities has rippled across all asset classes, especially the credit markets.There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, either, as Moody’s Investors Service sees more...

Last week, more than 20 people were arrested in China over a $7.6 billion Ponzi scheme involving a peer-to-peer (P2P) lender called Ezubao.According to a report in the Financial Times, Ezubao had...

Governments have been getting tougher on the use of corporate tax havens.Britain recently reached a $200 million deal with Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) – better known as Google (O:GOOGL) – for...

Last week, we talked about support and resistance – both of which drive the technical study of the financial markets.Let’s expand on this theory by introducing another key technical idea,...

Although I have a son and daughter at the tail-end of the much-maligned demographic group, Millennials (current age 18 to 33), they’re still a bit of a mystery to me.The common perception of...