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Retail Lobby: “We Lied About Organized Theft”

The Big Picture

billion in retail inventory losses in 2021 was not “attributable to organized retail crime.” retailers retracted its claim that “organized retail crime” accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for its analysis.” No, “ nearly half ” of $94.5

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FDIC: Number of Problem Banks Increased in Q1 2024

Calculated Risk

Asset Quality Metrics Remained Generally Favorable With the Exception of Material Deterioration in Credit Card and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Portfolios: Loans that were 90 days or more past due or in nonaccrual status increased to 0.91 From the FDIC: The number of banks on the FDIC’s “Problem Bank List” increased from 52 to 63.

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I Ran The Numbers And They Work!

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Looking at AQMIX on your statement kind of going nowhere for 10 years could be difficult but clearly a portfolio with the allocation in Portfolio 3 would have kept up just fine and if they had focused on the bottom line number and not the line items, it would not have been difficult. The differences aren't that big here though.

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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

2 The current move from 2021 highs is shown in red. 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. The first bear I experienced was utterly meaningless economically but still felt bad.

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At the Money: How To Know When The Fed Will Cut

The Big Picture

To help us unpack all of this and what it means for your portfolio, let’s bring in Jim Bianco, Chief Strategist at Bianco Research, and His firm has been providing objective and unconventional research and commentary to portfolio managers since 1990, and it is top rated amongst institutional traders. It’s a state program.

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4 Things To Do When The Stock Market Drops

The Chicago Financial Planner

At the end of 2021, Meta shares comprised 1.96% of the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF (ticker VOO). My thoughts on how investors should react to this type of stock market decline haven’t changed since I first wrote this post a number of years ago. Proper diversification is great way to reduce investment risk.

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Market Commentary: Dow Hits 40,000 As Inflation Numbers Improve

Carson Wealth

April inflation data confirmed there is no need to panic about the first-quarter numbers. That’s the slowest pace since August 2021 and not far above the 2018-2019 average of 3.6%. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. However, there’s good news with respect to shelter.

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