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Nordstrom Stock Price and Research (NYSE: JWN)

May 14, 2018 admin Comments Off on Nordstrom Stock Price and Research (NYSE: JWN)

Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) is a $9 billion company today. Investors that bought shares one year ago are sitting on a 0.43% total return. That’s below the S&P 500’s return of 15.7%.

Nordstrom stock is underperforming the market. It’s beaten down, but it reports earnings soon. So is it a good time to buy? To answer this question we’ve turned to the Investment U Stock Grader. Our research team built this system to diagnose the financial health of a company.

Our system looks at six key metrics…

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✗ Earnings-per-Share (EPS) Growth: Nordstrom reported a recent EPS growth rate of -23.08%. That’s below the …read more […]

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Supreme Court makes sports betting a possibility nationwide

May 14, 2018 admin Comments Off on Supreme Court makes sports betting a possibility nationwide

The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states. The justices voted 6-3 to strike down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a 1992 law that forbade state-authorized sports gambling with some exceptions. Many states have hoped their cut of legalized sports gambling could help solve budget problems. …read more […]

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NXP shares jump after report China resumes Qualcomm deal review

May 14, 2018 admin Comments Off on NXP shares jump after report China resumes Qualcomm deal review

China’s commerce ministry has been asked to speed up the review of the deal and Qualcomm’s proposed remedies to protect local companies, Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2KWlf2q, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said local firms are concerned that the deal would extend Qualcomm’s patent licensing business into areas such as mobile payments and autonomous driving. Shares of Qualcomm rose as much as 4.7 percent in early trading. …read more […]

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The “Blue Zone” of Financial Well-Being

May 14, 2018 admin Comments Off on The “Blue Zone” of Financial Well-Being

In my last column, I discussed Dan Buettner’s inspiring new book, The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons from the World’s Happiest People.

Dan – a National Geographic fellow – has spent years studying the habits of the world’s happiest people, and he provides wonderful suggestions about how to tweak your own life to make it more satisfying.

And while money isn’t always the answer, it certainly doesn’t hurt.

In a recent Gallup-Sharecare study, nearly 90% of people who were managing their finances well said their relationships with their spouses or partners were strong.

Yet when finances were cited as a sore point in the …read more […]