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Bob’s Journal for 11/7/19
Some Notable Events That Grabbed My Attention This Week The main part of earnings season is over, and there was good news and not-so-good news in the reports. The not-so-good news is that earnings are down from a year ago. All the data isn’t in, but it looks like overall earnings will be about 2.5% […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/31
Negative interest rates finally are hitting deposit accounts. Negative interest rates have been a fact in much of the developed world, especially in Europe and Japan, over the last few years. However, negative rates are concentrated in bonds, especially government bonds. Thus, banks have been hesitant to pass negative rates on to their customers, but […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/24/19
Some Notable Events That Grabbed My Attention This Week Earnings season is underway, and the early results are interesting. Most summaries point out that so far earnings and revenues have met or exceeded expectations. But they don’t point out how expectations have changed over the quarter. During the third quarter, expectations steadily declined, and corporations […]
Bob’s Journal 10/17
Social Security announced the inflation adjustments that will take effect on January 1, 2020. Retirement and disability benefits will increase by 1.6% because of the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). For those who are still working, the maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax will be $137,700. People who are working while receiving Social […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/10/19
Notable Events That Grabbed My Attention This Week Here are some things I came across in the last week that are likely to interest you. You can select stocks better than artificial intelligence can. I was at the Philadelphia MoneyShow last week and listened to a talk by Tom Sosnoff of tastytrade, an online brokerage […]
Bob’s Journal for 10/3/19
Some Things That Grabbed My Attention This Week It looks like we’re going to have a very interesting fourth quarter of 2019, just as we did in 2018. Here are a few developments from the last week that are relevant for us. Big news for individual investors came from the brokerage industry. Interactive Brokers announced […]
Bob’s Journal for 9/26/19
Some Questions From Our Latest Conference Call Many Retirement Watch readers joined me to discuss retirement finance issues on a conference call that my publisher Roger Michalski hosted. If you missed the call or want to hear it again, a replay is available here. I took questions from listeners during the call, but we weren’t […]
Some Things That Grabbed My Attention This Week
There were some interesting developments affecting your retirement finances in the last week. We might have seen a major turning point in the stock market. If this turns out to be a lasting change, it will have a significant effect on many investors. Since the end of the financial crisis, growth stocks have outperformed value […]
