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@Mark -- You mean the tweet from the twit, as we are in uncharted waters now. /ducks
@Hank -- Yeah, my oil/"energy" stocks have been up as of late -- EPD in particular, plus some of the utes. But I no longer actively trade on news so I'm just mo…
NBR was a class act. While I didn’t much watch it in recent years, Bill Griffeth and Sue Herrera always went down easy. Both top professionals and seemed to avoid the politics that pervades NBC’s daytime business programming. Perfect show for a wo…
Yup. Exactly my sentiment.
Admittedly, I'm also somewhat personally biased - Bloomberg always treated me right/respectfully/maturely as a guest both before and while on-air. CNBC, the one time I went on, treated me as a sideshow where I got i…
Actually BBG Asia coverage is pretty great, as is most of their coverage anyway on TV.[1] During times of crisis, I tend to have it on starting early Sun evening to see how the markets will be opening. It's helpful. BBG TV generally is more sane,…
I will also speak highly of PRBLX. Apart from them holding scandal-plagued WFC for longer than I liked as their #1 holding, I think it's a fine fund .... it's 90% of my Roth IRA.
Catch, that's the type of app I was referring to in my prior post. But common sense should prevail -- if it asks for access to your photos/contacts/calendar/camera/microphone and/or other unrelated things to providing network-based VPN services, t…
I'm sure some VPN providers are 'evil' in what permissions they ask for. I'm on an iPhone and while I don't use the VPN all the time on it, the one i use doesn't require root-level permissions due to how IOS is implemented. Android, I presume the…
I've used Private internet Access (PIA) for probably 10 years now. No problems, ever, and great speeds.
Hello All, old thread but planning to get a VPN connection this year for home/travel -same Q with what Catch22 started this thread with - which…
Yeah I could go to the SEC for the required reporting but normally a fund company would have links to their own annual reports hosted on their site. I find it odd that it's not the case here. And if what I'm looking for - ie a fund's annual repor…
Interesting fund. But call me crazy, I can't find any annual or semi-annual reports on their site - just fact sheets and commentaries. All I see is the firm's own 'annual report' which they want you to fork over your contact information to access…
Yup. Lots of scared folks out there, still. I bet some are still trying to get back to even, even now.
On a side note, think about the younger FAs who have never worked through a major recession/correction and how they might act or think when tra…
Even though we're allegedly 'late in the cycle' I'm waffling between adding TRBCX (TRP Blue chip Growth) or JENSX as a 'growth' sleeve ... JENSX is more conservative [1] and doesn't hold many of the momo-favored 'growth' names while TRBCX certainly…
Call me a heretic, but I'm coming to believe that IRAs are a bleeping joke. Why do I say that?
< begin rant >
1) In corporate 40X accounts you can save 18K+ in a taxfree account but only 6K annually in an IRA? If they made the IRA contribu…
The era of cheap debt and/or helicopter money from central banks tends to render predictions of anything less than further equity gains to be moot, I daresay.
Hats off to David et.al for running MFO. Amazing community here, and a far more usable site than what M* has become in recent months.
Which reminds me, I need to renew MFO Premium as we head into the new year.....
"could be" is a phrase that should be banned by Wall Street 'analysts'
Things have been reported to "could be" happening all the time but have yet to pan out - or pan out *significantly* .... hence the rise of perma-bears and perma-bulls.
My ru…
I've had friends experience MAJOR fedex issues in recent months, to include losing their passport and then giving them the runaround. I think the only thing fedex cares to deliver on-time and correctly are new iPhones when they're released.
I use…
And the hits just keep on coming. As I said at the time, this would be a long term drip-drip-drip problem and that in situations/scandals like this there is never just one cockroach.
I've had a LARGE BA position for decades - though I've sold it in…
I remember one USN spirit message years ago - a 688 sub was on patrol, the captain looked thru his periscope and spied the Army mule. The order was given to target & fire ..... and you can figure out the comical rest. :)
As a Navy vet, well …
Usually, yeah. As I said earlier I'm late this year.
No big deal, but PRWCX traded ex-div today.
Group B: record date Dec 12 (yesterday), ex-div Dec 13.
Aren’t dates of record one day AFTER ex-date? That’s how it is for exchange traded securities.…
Yup, always love it. Sadly, Army had issues and didn't come through this year, but still, always a genuine good game to watch. Alas, maybe next year.
FWIW saying I saw a spirit meme yesterday ahead of the game that said "The Navy is like Uber, ju…
MikeM: I don't want to 'buy the distribution' and incur a further tax cost .. a lot of people rush to buy OEFs at the end of the year as they rebalance (I don't rebalance) and then get surprised when the fund which they just bought sends them a 109…
Yeah I know, I wasn't able to get my order in today -- the usual end of semester chaos. :)
No big deal, but PRWCX traded ex-div today.
Group B: record date Dec 12 (yesterday), ex-div Dec 13.
Both, I think.
I make my annual (taxable) PRWCX contribution on Monday, when it trades ex-div. This year will be twice as big b/c I just don't see other tempting opportunites out there so why not stick with what works and a manager you trust.
There's only like 2-3 prison companies I think (Core Civic, Geo) that are public, so you can probably just buy the stocks directly.
Any mutual funds that invest in prisons or correctional institutions?
I always wonder who, if anyone, is front-running his various market-moving tweets and proclaimations.....with this regime, it's almost too easy for some insiders to NOT be doing it.
I'm realling looking for a fund which scores highly on ESG and low on carbon. I already have Brown Advisory Sustainable Growth and am looking at the Parnassus lineup. Many tech funds qualify on ESG as well. Any other suggestions would be gratefully…
Oh, I pay for the WSJ, WaPo, and NYT ... but prefer to pay for a quality viewing experience with less distractions and better 'flow' of articles. Ergo, I pay to provide that desired experience I use my geek-fu to deconstruct/reconstruct pages/page…
- Add-free. I wouldn’t mind if online papers included static “print-type” ads that didn’t detract from my reading (as hard copy newspapers did for a century or more). However, invariably these ads flash, blink, flicker, change color and dance ab…
That's kind of late. Hope they give folks time to sell (if they want) before paying out!
Yesterday I contacted DF Dent regarding end of year distributions and received a very prompt reply that the precise figures will be available on their website…
