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Morgan Stanley's 5 Questions For Telecom Stocks This Earnings Season
Wednesday, July 20, 2016 - 3:52pm | 478Telecom stocks have performed extremely well so far this year, leading the S&P 500 to fresh all-time highs. According to Morgan Stanley analyst Simon Flannery, telecom investors have nothing to fear from Q2 earnings season. “Overall we expect a broadly in-line second quarter for the group...
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'Chicken Bulls' Are Driving This Bull Market
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 11:56am | 359The Reformed Broker’s Josh Brown believes he has figured out what is driving the S&P 500 to new all-time highs: fear. According to Brown, the fact that minimum volatility, high-dividend and defensive sectors are the top-performers in 2016 shows that buyers are extremely risk-averse at the...
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The S&P 500's New All-Time High Just Doesn't Feel Right, And That's OK
Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - 11:04am | 375Investors are cheering the S&P 500’s first new all-time high in more than a year this week, but The Irrelevant Investor’s Michael Batnick is having a difficult time celebrating the occasion. According to Batnick, the recent market moves have made him very uncomfortable. “It...
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Were You 'Positioned' For Brexit?
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - 2:28pm | 357When stock investors, bond investors, economists, Wall Street banks, the IMF, bookies and global governments all failed to predict Brexit would actually happen, chances are you didn’t either. According to The Reformed Broker’s Joshua Brown, that’s okay. Sometimes unexpected things...
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Josh Brown On 'The Reformed Broker,' His New Book and High Frequency Trading
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 4:54pm | 976“Downtown” Josh Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, frequent CNBC contributor and author of the widely popular financial blog, 'The Reformed Broker,' was a guest on Benzinga's #PreMarket Prep show this week to talk about his blog, new book and high frequency trading...
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Are You Being Scammed By Your Stockbroker?
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 5:19pm | 752Contrary to popular belief by 93% of affluent Americans, your stockbroker does not have a fiduciary obligation to you. Like it or not, the product stockbrokers sell to you does not have to be in your best interest. "It simply has to be suitable given the investor's risk tolerance, goals, etc.,"...