Securitized debt can be a valuable tool, as it increases borrowing efficiency by placing debt more efficiently. Lenders need to have a good understanding of the risks involved though. Businesses raise money three main ways, by issuing stock where they get paid the issue price when their stock gets placed in the market, by issuing […]
The word out there is that U.S. stock markets are struggling because they are waiting for a trade deal. The real reasons are a strengthening dollar and increasing demand for bonds. There is a multitude of things that impact the movement of stock markets, although the currency market isn’t usually one that comes to mind […]
Divorce rates may be going down, but they are going up a lot among those 50 or older. This is a time in our lives where we are particularly exposed to the financial risk of divorce. We would think that couples who make it to age 50 and beyond certainly should be less prone to […]
The idea of Medicare for all has gained in popularity and even inspired some serious discussion lately. This idea can look quite appealing as long as we don’t think too much. The United States stands out in a lot of different ways, and one of the notable ones is the country’s lack of universal health […]
Cott Corporation is Barrons stock pick this week, and we’re told their stock looks ready to pop. The pop may not be that significant, but it could foam up a little from here. The Cott Corporation has been making beverages for almost a century now, founded in 1923 by Solomon Cott and his son Harry. […]
Should we worry very much about the eight consecutive losing sessions that the Dow Jones Transportation Average has suffered? It’s not how many that matters, it’s how much. Charles Dow is considered by many to be the father of modern technical analysis, in spite our now knowing that Japanese rice trader Munehisa Homma started using […]
How can we explain the news looking so good and the market performing so poorly? The momentum of price movements themselves can and do move markets a lot as well. Monday started out so promising. The Dow was up 175 points at the open, basking in the further promise of a successful trade deal between […]
Amazon is seen as a big enough threat to brick and mortar retailers with their huge online presence, but should they make a major move to physical stores, the threat will get bigger. Large physical retailers are already feeling the pressure from online retailing giant Amazon, scrambling to adjust their business model to better compete […]
With the April 15 deadline drawing nearer, 30 million people are expected to owe money to the IRS this year. The time to start thinking about how you will make that payment is now. In the old days, when the only way to file your taxes was by mailing in completed paper documents, people would […]
Gene therapy might sound a lot like science fiction, and at one point it was, but the fiction part is beginning to translate into real promise, and on the brink of becoming reality. The science of gene therapy has been around for years, and has always held the promise for some real breakthroughs in the […]