Sun.Sep 15, 2024

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FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates

Calculated Risk

Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp lowering the target range to 5 to 5-1/4 percent. It is possible the FOMC will cut by 50bp. Currently market participants are split evenly between a 25bp and a 50bp cut this week. Market participants are also pricing in a total of 75bp in cuts by the November meeting, and between 100bp to 125bp in cuts by December.

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10 Money Revelations in my 40s

A Wealth of Common Sense

I wrote a post almost 10 years ago about money revelations in my 30s. Here’s an updated version now that I’m approaching my mid-40s (dammit Father Time): 1. Lifestyle creep isn’t always bad. Yes, you need to live below your means, delay gratification and avoid overspending. But I am not a fan of living like a pauper when you’re younger just so you can have more money when you’re older.

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Sunday Night Futures

Calculated Risk

Weekend: • Schedule for Week of September 15, 2024 • FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates Monday: • 8:30 AM ET: The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for September. The consensus is for a reading of -4.0, up from -4.7. From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are up 5 and DOW futures are up 69 (fair value). Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $68.65 per barrel and Brent at $71.61 per barrel.

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6 items for your not-to-do list

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

By Matt Pais, MDRT Content Specialist You may regularly make a to-do list, but how often do you make a not-to-do list? Try these tactics as an unconventional means of pushing yourself toward exceeding expectations, from past MDRT member Denny Kern Heath, of Kingston, Jamaica.

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Live Demo - Supercharge your Month End Close

Automation generally supercharges any process and brings its value to the forefront. See how infusing automation such as ART (our month-end close solution), into your close can get you to the next level of closing. We will share a live demo of SkyStem's solution, ART and share the key elements of month-end close automation. Through ART, we'll take a look at: What month-end close automation entails Which process steps can and should be automated Benefits of achieving process automation, and Why i

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Want To Boost Your Forex Trading Income With Social Media? Discover How!

Trade Brains

Have you ever wondered how social media can transform the way you earn through forex affiliate marketing? The rise of social media has revolutionized affiliate marketing, making it a potent tool for earning commissions by referring customers to forex brands. This transformation presents a golden opportunity for those involved in trading for beginners and seasoned traders alike.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Also on the site Elder financial fraud is only going up. Maybe AI can help. (abnormalreturns.com) Noted personal finance writer Jonathan Clements is dying. He still has plenty left to teach us. (abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week How the new AirPod Pros 2 could upend the hearing aid industry. (cnbc.com) Sometimes things really are different this time.

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Sunday links: market mood swings

Abnormal Returns

Markets Mortgage rates are back to early 2023 levels. (axios.com) Nvidia ($NVDA) dominates the list of the biggest single-day market cap moves. (visualcapitalist.com) Strategy Are money market fund assets a bond substitute or stock substitute? (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why great companies don't always make for great stocks. (humbledollar.com) ETFs What's left to be ETF'd?

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars : Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core?