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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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5 Unusual Economic Indicators That Can Tell You About the Economy

Trade Brains

Lipstick Indicator Index The Lipstick indicator was coined by Leonard Laude, one of the billionaire heirs and chairman of the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, in the 2001 recession. Back in the autumn of 2001, he noticed that when the US economy was struggling due to the recession, lipstick sales were actually going up instead of down.

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5 Biggest Office Spaces in The World

Trade Brains

In 2001, during the 9/11 attacks, on the 60th anniversary of the Pentagon’s groundbreaking, terrorists hijacked a commercial airliner and crashed it into the building. However, it was eventually surpassed by the one and only Surat Diamond Bourse in India, which now holds the number one position. Every year, over 1.7

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy achen Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43 Over time, the Brown Advisory small-cap growth team, led by Christopher Berrier and George Sakellaris, watched numerous successful investments compound and grow out of their investible universe. Q: Can you describe your investment process?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy. After joining the investment industry in 2001, he served as director of research at two firms, creating a small-cap growth strategy at one of them before joining Brown Advisory in 2014. and concentrate 20%-40% of the portfolio’s weight in the top 10 holdings.

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Market Commentary: This Is What Normal Looks Like

Carson Wealth

These numbers can be volatile, as we were reminded by the downward revisions to prior data. It measures the number of employed workers as a percentage of the civilian population. Encouragingly, the prime-age employment-population ratio was unchanged at 80.9%, which is the highest level it has been since 2001.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. We actually see this more so with what has happened to #12 China ( MCHI ) and if there is one area that My Portfolio Guide, LLC missed the mark last year, it was here.

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