A new year means the financial media’s “Where to Invest Now” guides are, once again, on full display. This year’s batch offers “Top Picks from Top Pros” so readers may “Make More Money in 2016.” Don’t believe what you read: Market forecasts aren’t promoted to protect and grow your piggy bank.
Social Security rule changes are set to go into effect later this year, eliminating a strategy used by some couples to increase their lifetime payments. The changes are not, technically, a reduction in benefits. Lawmakers are simply removing an unintended loophole.
Every four years, the intersection of power and money lead Wall Street to churn out election-related research pontificating what impact politicking has on the market. Do election results influence the stock market? Or, could it be the other way around?
The lackluster performance of stocks this year has many investors fixated on whether a market correction may be just around the corner. How slowing global growth, higher interest rates or the outcome of the U.S. presidential election will impact markets has captivated investors around the world.
It’s been fifteen years since the Oscar-nominated film O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released. Loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey, the satirical tale follows three escaped convicts as they run from the law in search of buried treasure.