Low mortgage rates are holding on — and millions of US homeowners are making this big mistake Mortgage rates have been relatively stable over the past few weeks, a widely followed survey shows, even as experts keep warning that higher borrowing costs are on the way. For now, fears about the omicron variant and its […]
Read MoreGold bullion bars David Gray/AFP via Getty Images Most investors don’t think of gold as a sustainable investment. Historically, it has required large amounts of water, energy and toxic chemicals to mine and refine. Mining companies have been accused of exploiting developing countries and their workers. Yet gold bullion—as opposed to miners—is surprisingly green. Once […]
Read MoreA new Florida-based startup hopes it has devised a solution to the decades-old puzzle of how to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan’s enormous reserves across the Caspian to Azerbaijan and, potentially, onward to Europe. The company, Trans Caspian Resources (TCR) was founded in April and is co-headed by a former U.S. ambassador to Turkmenistan, Alan […]
Read MoreAn international shipping company and leader in the seaborne transportation of refined oil products and chemicals. Their fleet of product tankers is fully chartered under medium- to long-term time and bareboat charters. CPLP $16.0600 0.1200 % 0.7500 Capital Product Part Sector : Transportation Industry : Transportation – Ship Signal Short Term Trend Long Term Trend […]
Read More(Bloomberg) — Traders are increasingly betting that the Federal Reserve’s cycle of interest-rate hikes, which hasn’t even gotten underway yet, will fizzle out sooner rather than later. Parts of the curve for eurodollar futures, which among other things are used by traders to bet on the direction of central bank policy, have been inverting over […]
Read MoreEveryone knows the financial arguments for why we should wait as long as possible to Social Security benefits: Your benefits increase by 8% for every year from age 62 to age 70 that you postpone claiming. For those who have other sources of income during these years, increases this large are hard to beat. But […]
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