Sep 23, 2015

When oil prices collapsed late last year, the $83 billion dollar FranklinTempleton Income Fund suffered mightily, losing more than $2 billion dollars on its energy-company investments according to the Wall Street Journal. Portfolio manager Ed Perks responded as portfolio managers at Franklin Templeton often do: He...

Sep 22, 2015

An analysis by The Wall Street Journal shows that some of the largest U.S. bond mutual funds have invested 15% or more of their money in what are referred to as “rarely traded securities”—bonds that do not trade quickly-- a practice that runs counter to long-held Securities and Exchange Commission standards. They...

Sep 21, 2015

Shock jock newsletter writers are talking about the Chinese yuan replacing the dollar as the world's "reserve" currency. Is there any truth to it? Are we headed for the disruption of the financial world as we know it? Sinclair and Steve review some important facts and what you really need to know. In the Q & A segment,...

Sep 18, 2015

According to the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Strumpf, interest-rate jitters are taking their toll on one of the stock market’s big success stories in recent years: high-dividend stocks. Double digit losses have now replaced double-digit gains of recent years. Investors plowed $48.4 billion into mutual...

Sep 17, 2015

Will the Fed raise?  If so, what happens?  Who are the winners and who are the losers? Deutsche Bank performed in depth research analyzing the history of Fed rate hikes and the consequences going back fifty years.   Here’s a preview:  over the past 35 years the market is most often up sharply—about 14...