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The Give and Take Regarding Incentives
From the Sigma Investment Counselors blog. Governments utilize a variety of incentives intended to direct economic activity in politically motivated directions. Investors need to be aware of the effect...
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BetterInvesting Members Saw Brexit as a Shopping Opportunity, Reports The...
As the stock market plunged after British voters agreed to exit the European Union, at least some members of BetterInvesting saw a chance to snap up solid stocks on their watch lists. They were...
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Global market indexes and the pound sterling plunged today after United Kingdom voters voted to exit the European Union. This highly unanticipated outcome reinforced concerns about the EU’s political...
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China’s Effect on the U.S. Market: Less Than Meets the Eye
Excerpted from Provident Investment’s February newsletter The only way the rout in global stock prices makes sense is if one believes there will be a “hard landing” in China and that this would spill...
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Investors Shouldn’t Flee From Stock Market Due to Greek Financial Tragedy,...
BetterInvesting’s CEO Kamie Zaracki isn’t letting the situation in Greece, Puerto Rico or China keep her from dipping into the stock market, she said on the June 30 edition of CNBC’s “Closing Bell...
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Mumbai Media Company Taking a Page From Netflix’s Playbook
Hollywood is internationally recognized as the movie capital of the world, but it’s trounced by India regarding numbers of films produced a year. Hollywood releases around 500 movies a year, while...
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Caution Signs for U.S. Market: Dollar, Utilities, Interest Rates
Excerpted from the April issue of the Provident Investment Management newsletter. With the dollar rallying sharply against the euro, U.S. investors might want to spend some vacation days — and dollars...
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Exchange Rates and Your Stocks
Fluctuations in exchange rates can have a surprisingly large impact on the investment return for a domestic investor. If you buy an investment that goes up by 10 percent but the home currency declined...
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Swiss Franc Fiasco Has Lesson for Stock Investors Who Place Sell Stop Orders
On Thursday, Jan. 15, the Swiss National Bank abruptly dropped its efforts to cap the exchange rate of 1.2 Swiss francs per euro. The franc immediately appreciated by 17 percent, causing chaos in the...
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Growth May Help Keep Alibaba’s IPO Afloat
The following is an excerpt from Provident Investment Management’s October Investment Comments: The biggest IPO in history is currently hitting the market. Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba will...
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Expanding Your Horizons Is Important to Your Portfolio
Given the events of the past several years, including the financial crisis, there’s no doubt that trouble in one region of the globe often ripples through an increasingly connected world. Indeed, we’ve...
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Despite Sell-Off, Emerging Markets Still Hold Promise
Emerging market funds had a challenging year in 2013 and the first quarter of 2014 wasn’t much better. Some of the lull was attributed to a sell-off sparked by speculation that the Federal Reserve...
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PetroChina Should Benefit from Growing Car Ownership in China
China remains a battleground country among investors. Not a day passes without articles appearing in the Western media about ghost towns, corruption, pollution, bad treatment of immigrant workers,...
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