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Investment Perspective: Computerized Trading – Market Volatility
Computerized Trading - Market Volatility Wall Street's recent wild ride wasn’t driven by nervous portfolio managers or any other human traders. Instead, machines are making the trading decisions. On a typical trading day, computers account for 50% to 60% of market...
Investment Perspective: Timing a Correction
Timing a Correction The stock market is on a tear. The S&P 500 rose 19.4% in 2017 excluding dividends, and is already up over 4% in 2018. Is it a bubble or a sugar high? Or undervalued? Or the aftermath of the Trump Tax Cut? For most of us it is better to be a...
Investment Perspective: Bitcoin
BITCOIN Warren Buffett said he doesn’t own a single bitcoin and has no plans of investing in it. “In terms of cryptocurrencies, generally, I can say with almost certainty that they will come to a bad ending. When it happens or how or anything else, I don't know. I...
Investment Perspective: Revolution
REVOLUTION One word could describe Donald Trump's presidency: Revolution: Revolution against the "establishment" and "status quo." Here are a couple of examples Corporate Tax Rate. Since 1993, the top corporate tax rate has been 35%, one of the highest in the world....
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: What Taxpayers Need to Know
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: What Taxpayers Need to Know On December 20, 2017, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the act or TCJA). The legislation makes significant changes to the Internal Revenue Code (IRC),...