Tag: Personal finance
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The Problem I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to lose patience with bonds. The yields are rock bottom. Inflation is high. And the interest rate outlook is pointing in one direction: up. This would mean substantial losses for bonds. So I’ve been looking into high dividend stocks as…
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One of my oldest friends just got his dream job! He’s found fulfillment, accomplishment, and a lot more money. But what should he do with it? Matt* wanted to know how he could set himself up for a strong financial future, now that he’s finally making good money. I find…
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Markets are booming today, but just 18 months ago, things looked like this: Ouch. I lost about 22% of my portfolio in less than five weeks. It certainly made life interesting. Today, markets sit near all time highs and jobs go begging. It’s a far cry from the darkest days…
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I used to love bonds. Especially government bonds. Guaranteed income, easy liquidity, and stability in a crisis. What’s not to like? But my old flame hasn’t done much for me lately. And I’m not the only one. The Problem Bonds have hovered at or below the rate of inflation since…
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Major new data just came out today from the SEC. It shows fails to deliver in AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. up 1088% in the first half of August: These fails to deliver sometimes happen for benign reasons. But when massive fails to deliver occur in a stock over a sustained…
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The seasons are changing but one thing is not: the incredible popularity of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. among retail investors. Robinhood lists AMC at #3 on its leaderboard for September, behind only Apple and Tesla: Apple is the largest stock in the entire market, with a market cap of $2.6…
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Short sellers have been fighting retail traders all year. Yesterday, they took a major hit: “Heavily shorted stocks have, for the last month, been less volatile than earlier this year. Today we saw an end to this,” said Ortex co-founder Peter Hillerberg. The share price gains in AMC and GameStop…
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There appears to be some fishy activity going on in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. The stock has long had huge “fails to deliver,” or trades that aren’t completed. This can be a sign of illegal naked short selling, which is selling shares short without borrowing them first. Naked…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just released new fails to deliver data for the second half of July. It shows that fails to deliver in shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., dropped substantially in the last two weeks, but remain elevated. In the first half of July, AMC…
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The National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), which handles a huge percentage of all stock trades, may soon increase capital requirements for firms 25-fold: DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED RULE CHANGECurrently, NSCC requires each Member to maintain a minimum Required Fund Deposit amount of $10,000. NSCC proposes to increase each Member’s minimum…
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