Calculated Risk

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Happy New Year! Wishing you all the best in 2025. The key reports this week are the October Case-Shiller house price indexes, the December ISM manufacturing survey and December vehicle sales. -- Monday, December 30th -- 9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December. 10:00 AM: Pending Home Sales Index for November. The consensus is for a 0.7% increase in the index. 10:30 AM: Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for December.

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Midstream Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Key Highlights Are you a financial advisor and a business owner looking to stand out? Guerrilla Marketing , as stated by Morgan James Publishing, might be just what you need. This unique way of marketing focuses on being creative and making a big impact without a big budget. In this blog, we will look into Guerrilla Marketing, paying special attention to financial advisors.

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Calculated Risk

DECEMBER 28, 2024

At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November FHFAs National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show Massively Higher Population Growth Question #8 for 2025: How much will Residential investment change in 2025?

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Zoe Financial

DECEMBER 28, 2024

New Year, New Wealth: A Guide to Financial Resolutions for 2025 Updated December 30th, 2024 Reading Time: 7 minutes Written by: The Zoe Team As the New Year approaches, many of us set personal goals to make the coming year better than the last. Whether its getting in shape, traveling to a dream destination, or learning a new skill, resolutions are a time-honored tradition.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Bloomberg has an article that takes a different approach to why bonds with duration are a bad way to go , making more of a fundamental case related to demography causing inflationary pressure leading to higher interest rates from here. If interest rates go up then bond prices will go down as a direct cause and effect. The further out a bond's maturity date, the more sensitive the price is to rising rates.

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Advisor Perspectives

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Treasuries were mixed in thin trading as traders absorbed the prospect of a less aggressive path ahead for Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts and priced in greater risk for US long-term debt.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Colombia Tolima Los Brasiles Peaberry Organic coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: Tracking Putins Most Feared Secret AgencyFrom Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond : The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.( Wall Street Journal ) The Fate of the Finance Bro : Depictions of high finance have oscillated between glamoriz

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Advisor Perspectives

DECEMBER 28, 2024

A Bitcoin rally is fizzling in the final days of a record-breaking year for the digital asset, as investors assess the remaining impetus from President-elect Donald Trump’s embrace of the cryptocurrency sector.

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Advisor Perspectives

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The dollar is headed for its best year in almost a decade as US economic strength reins in expectations for the Federal Reserve’s rate-cutting cycle and President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of harsh tariffs underpin bullish bets on the currency.

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