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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Started in 2003 as little more than an online repository for résumés, the Microsoft-owned behemoth has recently transformed. The number of LinkedIn posts grew 41% from 2021 to 2023. Not only are there more users to post, but they’re posting much more often.

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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. February 27, 2023) Looking at the Very Very Long Term (November 6, 2003) Bull & Bear Markets Behavioral Finance 1.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Schroders ) • The Exact Age When You Make Your Best Financial Decisions There’s a magic number for when your expertise and cognitive powers align. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. There’s been explosive growth in the number of cases of the disease since Lymerix was pulled from the market more than two decades ago. 1987 Crash 3.

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Growth Will Speed Up 7% Over Next Half Century

Validea

are in the top one percent and number one in their categories. And the Baron Partners Fund is the number-one performing mutual fund in the U.S. since its inception in 2003. of their funds have beaten the market, and 45.5% At his firm, Baron says they tend not to worry about the market, or interest rates, or the economy.

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The Economy vs. Interest Rates

Bell Investment Advisors

That’s occurred alongside an impressive number of jobs still unfilled. To be sure, the number of unfilled job openings has declined to 9.6 In the summer of 2003, an index of long-term U.S. On a broad level, initial jobless claims are presently the lowest they have been when compared to the twenty years prior to the pandemic.

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Market Commentary: The Summer Rally Continues Amid Strong Job Gains

Carson Wealth

Even more impressive is the past four times this happened (1997, 2003, 2009, and 2020) all saw at least double-digit returns. We didn’t even see significant revisions to March and April payroll numbers, and the 3-month average now sits at 249,000. MAY”be we have a positive signal from the strong May. Did you see what I did there?

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Abdul Karim Telgi Scam – From Small Time Crook to Billion-Dollar Scammer!

Trade Brains

Abdul Karim Telgi Scam : The story of Abdul Karim Telgi, known to many as Karim Lala , is one of “Rag to Riches” built on the foundations of a scam so huge that the official number are not confirmed. However, he would always discover that the police were tracking his phone, at which point he would change his number.