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Thanks for the post, @davfor
Obviously, we here are far away from knowing/seeing the language of the 150 pages of the draft agreement, and what was "red lined". Personally, if the U.S. administration wants to pursue what they consider to be righteo…
John, several times in the past several months you have indicated that a market crash may be upon we investors within 12 to 24 months.
Now the near term looks okay? You wrote long term, but I do not consider 12-24 months to be long term for market …
Evening @hank
I believe I posted the NYSE chart recently, but I'll place it here along with SPY and the Russell 2000 etf. I believe the NYSE composite of the broad U.S. equity market is what Mr. Gundlach is referencing. Indeed, this composite hasn'…
Morn'in.
This statement from the writer (Russel Kinnel is the director of manager research for Morningstar) is misleading, and I don't understand what he is attempting to portray. One hell of a discouraging statement (below in bold) for any newbie…
Howdy,
I don't watch housing starts. A lot to consider in this area, I do suppose.
1. Are you seeing too many new starts overall?
2. Single family or multi units?
3. Location, location, location, eh? Are there particular areas that seem to…
Hi @Old_Joe
Here is the article authors bio. He's not a clunker, IMHO; a been there done that person.
But, as Anna has noted, too; this type of article has a lot of moving parts that are difficult to nail in place for any length of time.
Howdy @rforno
Knowing you are well aware, too; of the difficulty with this type of report with data, I offer this.
I'm not criticizing the report in general or the data provided, but not unlike you; initial thoughts about such an article pop into o…
@Mark
Ok, memory test. Try this next time or try again with same wording you used for your link words......
Financial Literacy
You highlighted the words, did the insert link icon thing and while you were looking at your word surrounded by the link…
Hi @Mark
Do you mean, playing as with helping stimulate our brain cells? Too soon to start playing outside in our part of the world, eh?
Hell, with warm temps for a few days last week, I was bitten by one of those early mosquitoes about the size of…
@Derf
Agree, with @hank
There has been an uptick relative to the large whack of Dec. 2018, and those doing dollar cost averaging via 401k, etc. should do okay going forward.
However, I do review/watch what is shown in the below chart.
The chart st…
Howdy @BenWP
One may use GoodRx, with Medicare, a purchased rx insurance contract, etc. As time allows, make a few phone calls to your local pharma's.
I'll add this from the GoodRx web site. Perhaps this is the confusing part of trying to use GoodR…
@Ted Yes. All vendors should be compared for various medicine needs and pricing. I'm not familiar with Express Scripts and how they process or price a local pharmacy request that will be filled within a few hours; so, I can't compare to GoodRx.
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Disclaimer: I've discovered this spring that I have become allergic to pollen or whatever else is blowing in the wind in our area. Currently using some serious medication to offset the symptoms, and hopefully; this will not interfere with attempting…
For what it is worth, the Canadian 3 month/10 year has inverted.
Also, that a bond rally has been in place for some time now. I presume the linked Putnam write is an article to their customer base presenting their viewpoints. IMHO, one should not t…
Hi @Rbrt
I'm not a math whiz; but I need help with discovery of that 25% number, too.
Can't email the author, as is the case now for most of these folks. She has a twitter account that I viewed, but nothing related to her write.
The quiz should ha…
@fundly
The majority of my/our knowledge of Canadian culture in real time arrived, in the early 1990's with our ready access to CBC by geographical location. Initially this was via a 40' tv tower with a very high quality antenna pointed toward Winds…
Part of this CEF distribution in 2017 was return of one's own capital invested.
Being curious....., the below 3 healthcare related were chosen, for about 5.5 years of compare.
GRX FSPHX FHLC FSMEX compare chart starting Oct. 2013
GRX has perfo…
@johnN
Please start a new post; as this thread is already too much off track.
Thank you.
I personally don't follow what you are asking about with your below statement.
different ?: how much should we cash out from IRA/401K/pensions plans month…
@Derf
I don't know why Vanguard would have a problem allowing more than 1 beneficiary. We've set primary and secondary beneficiaries "on-line" through our accounts. I've seen primary, secondary and/or co-beneficiary listed as choices at various acco…
@hank
I usually check links, but didn't tonight. An extra add remained in the link box that opens here, at MFO. Usually the header is overwritten, this time the header remained.
The link header being, http:// This messed the link coding.
Hank,…
@hank @Old_Joe
As this thread officially has fallen off of the track......
Perhaps, in the end; the "report" will lay somewhere between:
Catch-22
and the Pentagon Papers
@JoJo @hank
Thank you for you input. My recommendation was the same; to …
Thanks @Old_Joe
I miss the Selectric with the correcting feature.
Truth be known, and really going off course for this thread, is that I took typing class in 10th grade to meet more ladies. Way before the Selectric was in public classrooms in my ar…
@hank
Thanks for digging this phrase from the write.
The below in bold is an excellent phrase that fits into so many locations throughout one's experiences in life's journey.
“fact-based intellectually coherent arguments that are based on evide…
@jerry et al I don't disagree about a time frame chosen by Fidelity. They know better than any of us about the internals.
A couple of notes for the curious.
FSMEX and fund assets for the past few years.
2016 remained mostly around for the year…
Hi @Mark
I don't know whether you viewed the chart I posted a few threads back; but the IHI (I-shares etf) has a very close return % over most time frames compared to FSMEX. The expense ratio is almost half of FSMEX. Recalling you may have a Fido br…
Hi @mcmarasco
Thank you for this info.
No notification here; and there remains no news publication for the fund close.
Of all places, I found a small blip (this morning) indicating the fund is closed within the composition fab for this fund. Other…
Ok, not trying to play tricks with time frames....so, the following applies with this chart:
2015 and some of 2016 were quite sideways for much of the health sector. I chose this time frame (to date) to help show when these sectors started to move …
@Crash
I see that info at the bottom, but the heading is account balance and fees. I don't believe this is expressing the minimum CD purchase. I may be incorrect.
This is why I asked Derf about his purchase, to get the info directly from a customer…
Hi @Old_Joe
Thank you. I'm perplexed why WSJ would use an internal Fidelity fund for such a list.
Their notation of this fund surely is of no benefit for the overwhelming majority of their subscriber base, eh? A bit like giving the "bird" to those …
Interesting article, I presume. I don't have access using Incognito, MasterBlaster and other tricks I may use to read this WSJ write.
I will presume that the writer made it known that this fund is for internal use at Fidelity and not directly avail…
@Graust
Thank you for the M* chart procedure to display proper results when mixing OEF/ETF or CEF compares.
I don't use M* for charting, but nice to know their methods; and will benefit others here.
Regards,
Catch
@BenWP @Old_Joe
Ben, OJ was very involved with writing a user guide and sorting out bugs with testing and related during the birth of MFO.
A site search indicates the word, paramecium; had previously never been used at this site in text discussi…
@BenWP @davidrmoran
I noted, too; that the M* chart indicates price and NAV.
The M* function for "performance" is reported to include all distributions, as is the the case with Stockcharts. I did not attempt a performance compare at M*.
David m…
Hi @BenWP
Being curious about these noted investments, I've placed a chart next. I also added a SP1500 reference. The time frame of the chart is limited by inception dates, I presume. Also, Stockcharts reportedly includes all distributions.
Char…
@msf You mentioned the muni's portion of your fund example. Is this composition listing at Fidelity valid relative to the other sites info you've viewed?
Fidelity composition view of DODIX
Thank you,
Catch
