Financial Planning

CRAZY Bond Trades on InvestingInBonds

Any bond ticker I have looked at - such as the ones showing trades on investinginbonds.com - show really crazy trades f...

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posted by persistentone

3 comments posted 17yrs posted by persistentone

repaying social security

Now that our assets are down 50% and nothing but doom & gloom predicted on the horizon, I am considering re-entering th...

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posted by sandyhb6

9 comments posted 17yrs posted by sandyhb6

Developing Lists of Bond Candidates

Is there a site that would let me search for corporate bonds that meet these criteria: - Bond and corporation behind it...

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posted by persistentone

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Application or Spreadsheet To Calculate Bond Returns

Does anyone have a software application that I could plug a CUSIP, a purchase price for a bond, and a commission, and h...

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posted by persistentone

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About mortgage 'bailout'

Let's say Joe buys a house for 800k, then discovers he can't afford it. He puts it on the market, and learns he cannot...

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posted by GeorgeCFL

7 comments posted 17yrs posted by GeorgeCFL

Definition of Liquidity

Liquidity = when you look at your brokerage statement and wet your pants! Gene E. Utterback, EA, RFC, ABA (Hopefully our...

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posted by gene

10 comments posted 17yrs posted by gene

How does my mortgage lender treat house prepayments

For the last year, I have been adding a little bit of extra to my house payments. I have a 15 year fixed rate mortgage...

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posted by ichudov

3 comments posted 17yrs posted by ichudov

For Anyone Using "My Yahoo" Financial To List Their Portfolio, etc.

Hello, Am getting on a bit in years now, so please bear with me a bit. I have my Portfolio of stocks on My Yahoo, the F...

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posted by rgsros

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by rgsros

Refinance HELOC

Hi, I have $200K balance on my home equity line of credit of my primary residence. I own the house outright and the cur...

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posted by deutliu

9 comments posted 17yrs posted by deutliu

trading illiquid stocks

An illiquid preferred stock that I would like to buy is currently (9:43AM) trading at 4.48 bid for 700 shares 5.04 offe...

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posted by beliavsky

5 comments posted 17yrs posted by beliavsky

non-deductable IRA?

I'm 59 y/o and have a pension plan at work, maxed out 401K and Roth IRA contributions, AGI

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posted by sailor1x

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by sailor1x

How to shop around for health insurance?

Things at my company are looking a little shaky. If I get laid off I wonder how would I go about acquiring health insur...

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posted by nonsense

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IRA accounts and living trusts

should IRA accounts be held in the name of "Joe Dokes, Trustee of the Joe Dokes Living Trust"?

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posted by rowdy'sboss

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Bank run on Citibank?

Presently, Citibank stock is trading at a level that implied an almost imminent bankruptcy. Most likely, on the basis o...

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posted by ichudov

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by ichudov

Home Equity Line of Credit

At the moment, the only debt that our family has, aside from credit cards that we pay off in full every month, is the h...

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posted by ichudov

13 comments posted 17yrs posted by ichudov