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If you are trying to call a bottom in this market, we urge you to move towards a safer stance in your investing style. …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. stepped up pressure on Saudi Arabia to seal a historic deal to cut oil production as negotiations that President Donald Trump himself has brokered dragged on for a third day.Talks aimed at ending a price war that’s savaging the U.S. oil industry and threatening petrostates’ budgets continued Saturday as Mexico and Saudi Arabia refused to budge. In an attempt to move negotiations along, a group of Republican senators from oil-drilling states such as Texas spoke to the Saudi oil minister by conference call.“The Saudis spent over a month waging war on American oil producers, all while …read more […]

Macy’s Inc has hired investment bank Lazard Ltd to explore options for bolstering its finances after the department store operator lost most of its revenue as it shut down all its stores as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, people familiar with the matter said. The move by Macy’s, the largest U.S. department store operator by sales, is a sign of the severity of the crisis facing brick-and-mortar retailers, which were already struggling with the shift to online shopping. The pandemic has forced store closures and widespread furloughs of employees as state after state issued shelter-in-place …read more […]

I started wearing disposable gloves and a mask in early March. Almost everyone was looking at me as if I was some kind of a freak. Today, I don’t wear a mask when I go out and people are looking at me as if I am an idiot. Most of the time it makes perfect […] …read more […]

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Republican U.S. senators from oil states who recently introduced legislation to remove American troops from Saudi Arabia said on Saturday they had spoken with three officials from the kingdom and urged them to take concrete action to cut crude output. Saudi Arabia and Russia were close to finalizing a deal to cut crude output by a record 10 million barrels per day. Oil prices had fallen to 18-year lows as the coronavirus outbreak closed down economies across the world and after major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia had boosted output in a race for market share. …read more […]

3M has sued Performance Supply LLC of Manalapan, accusing it of charging exorbitant prices for N95 respirators. …read more […]

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(Bloomberg) — As Mexico and Saudi Arabia fight over a deal to bring the oil-price war to an end, Mexico has a powerful defense: a massive Wall Street hedge shielding it from low prices.With talks well into their third day, the Mexican sovereign oil hedge, which insures the Latin American country against low prices and is considered a state secret, is a factor that may make the country less inclined to accept the OPEC+ agreement.For the last two decades, Mexico has bought so-called Asian style put options from a small group of investment banks and oil companies, in what’s considered …read more […]

Just seven weeks ago, we were in The Wizard of Oz‘s opulent Emerald City. We watched the major indexes hit new highs and reflect a seemingly immortal bull market.
But now, some investors who diligently followed their yellow brick roads and had hoped to retire in 2020 are feeling shortchanged.
It’s true that a low-maintenance investing strategy prevents emotion-driven losses. (In fact, a study by Fidelity showed that the best-performing portfolios were ones investors had forgotten about.)
However, there are circumstances under which buy-and-hold can fail.
Target-date funds are offered by 9 out of 10 retirement plans, and a recent Vanguard survey shows that …read more […]

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Bitcoin futures volume on two regulated platforms – CME Group and Bakkt – fell sharply last month.The post Bitcoin futures volume on CME and Bakkt fell sharply in March appeared first on The Block. …read more […]

Businesses across the central Chinese city of Wuhan are gradually resuming operations after the lifting of a lockdown on April 8, 2020, nearly two and a half months after it was imposed to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus. But few consumers are returning to restaurants and shopping centres since many are still worried about contracting Covid-19 as the outbreak continues, leaving small business owners facing an uncertain future. …read more […]

If you own shares in Office Properties Income Trust (NASDAQ:OPI) then it’s worth thinking about how it contributes to… …read more […]