CFD – Contract for Difference (contract based on price difference), which allows you to trade assets and make a profit without physically buying the underlying asset.
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Big Tech Takes Another Hit
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, it looks like the the age of Netflix and chill is over. Netflix is, of course, the N company in the super-tech quintet of FAANG titans which includes Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google.
How To Grow Your Retirement Savings Safely
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The Year Nothing Worked: Stocks, Bonds, Cash Go Nowhere
Lu Wang
December 28, 2015 — 12:00 AM ESTUpdated on December 28, 2015 — 10:32 AM EST
It’s the worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937
A 2.2% gain in the S&P 500 is roughly the best anyone could do
The idea behind asset allocation is simple: when one market struggles, it’s OK because an investor can jump into another that is thriving. Not so in 2015.
In fact, if you judge the past year by which U.S. investment class generated the largest return, a case can be made it was the worst for asset-allocating bulls in almost 80 years, according to data compiled by Bianco Research LLC and Bloomberg. With three days left in 2015, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 2.2 percent with dividends, cash is up less, while bonds and commodities show losses.
After embracing everything from Treasuries to high-yield bonds and technology shares amid seven years of zero-percent interest rates, investors found themselves with nowhere to run at a time when the Federal Reserve’s campaign of stimulus drew to an end. Normally it isn’t like this. Since 1995, practically every year has seen some asset deliver returns exceeding 10 percent.
“It’s been challenging from the point of view that the equity market and bond market are probably more joined at the hip than normal,” said Hayes Miller, the Boston-based head of multi-asset North America who helps oversee $35.8 billion for Baring Asset Management LLC. “We’ve had high cash exposure relative to norm because we felt cash provides one of the only good diversifiers against the risk-off trade.”
Bianco Research keeps track of the S&P 500, 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds, 3-month Treasury bills and the Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity Index to gauge performance in stocks, bonds, cash and commodities. The four are the most common asset classes considered by investors when an allocation strategy is designed, according to Jim Bianco, the founder.
Stocks are a ‘disaster waiting to happen’: Stockman
Amanda Diaz | @CNBCDiaz
David Stockman has long warned that the stock market is on the verge of a massive collapse, and the recent price action has him even more convinced than ever that the bottom is about to fall out.
“I think it’s pretty obvious that the top is in,” the Reagan administration’s OMB director said Thursday on CNBC’s “Futures Now.” The S&P 500 has traded in a historically narrow range for the better part of 2015, having moved just 1 percent higher year to date. “It’s just waiting for the knee-jerk bulls, robo traders and dip buyers to finally capitulate.”
Stockman, whose past claims have yet to come to fruition, still believes that the excessive monetary policy from central banks around the world has created a “debt supernova,” and all the signs point to “the end of the central bank enabled bubble,” which could cause a worldwide recession.
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/07/stocks-are-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen-stockman.html
