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This is a great interview with TD Ameritrade's CEO Fred Tomczyk where he mentions their customers accounts have high margin balances, little cash and that they're fully ...
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In this article, Joe Kukura highlights comments from Mark Cuban to Mark Andreessen highlighting a lot of froth in the technology sector. To quote a friend of mine, "there's a difference between value and valuations" and currently, there's a big disconnect between the ...
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It's a very interesting time in the markets when by almost every measure, US stocks are overvalued and global government bond yields are at unsustainably low levels. Germany's 10 year bond is now below .10%. What's a German investor to do! Buy stocks of course and US Government bonds since besides the 1.80% yield, you can also have currency gains (or losses) as well. Central banks have been easing at an unprecedented pace, yet GDP is not responding like it has in the past after a major recessions. In my opinion, I feel the seeds are being sewn for another 2008 type environment sometime in the coming years. With European QE coming to the party late, I believe the ...
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