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Bond Broker Who Will Advertise My Offer?

Is there any coherent market for trading bonds where I can enter a low offer to buy a bond and have that offer continue...
3 comments posted 17yrs
posted by persistentone
3 comments posted 17yrs posted by persistentone

Tax Managed Accounts

I am considering exchanging two funds in my taxable account into comparable tax managed funds. The existing funds are i...
11 comments posted 17yrs
posted by snoll1308
11 comments posted 17yrs posted by snoll1308

Retiree's savings at risk

My retired mother lives off the interest of a trust, which is managed by a bank. At the beginning of the year the balan...
66 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ahorsefly
66 comments posted 17yrs posted by ahorsefly

25/11/2008 - The current Market Sentiment

The currency market is still taking its clues from the equity market changes as a mirror of the current financial marke...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by fxrecommends
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by fxrecommends

A very dumb question about stocks

I know that in the financial atmosphere of today many companies that are doing quite well are still seeing their stock...
7 comments posted 17yrs
posted by googlemail2003
7 comments posted 17yrs posted by googlemail2003

Software to Graph Bonds?

Does any vendor make a software package that will graph bond trades? The only web sites I found to do this require you t...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by persistentone
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by persistentone

What happens to people who lose their homes etc

Here's a question that bothers me. Let's say that a family borrowed [too much] money. Due to job problems or some such,...
8 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ichudov
8 comments posted 17yrs posted by ichudov

"Stay the course"? Bah humbug!

It took 3 years (7/19/1932) for the DJIA to bottom-out after the steep decline starting on 9/3/1929. The fact that DJIA...
38 comments posted 17yrs
posted by curiousgeorge408
38 comments posted 17yrs posted by curiousgeorge408

roth ira

Married guy has roth ira three years old. Is dying. He dies. Account not 5 years old yet, wife is beneficiary. What happ...
1 comments posted 17yrs
posted by thebarber
1 comments posted 17yrs posted by thebarber

Reverse mortgage math?

I am curious about the math of reverse mortgages. I have done a google search and looked at some sites, but I cannot fi...
36 comments posted 17yrs
posted by curiousgeorge408
36 comments posted 17yrs posted by curiousgeorge408

Opinions on Short ETFs

Some say that the slump is here, some say that the worst is still to come. Either way, would investing in short ETFs to...
10 comments posted 17yrs
posted by evandro
10 comments posted 17yrs posted by evandro

Investing v/s paying off mortgage

This eternal question has been discussed several times, but with the recent turn in events of the stock market, I'm con...
8 comments posted 17yrs
posted by sprash25
8 comments posted 17yrs posted by sprash25

corporate bonds are the new stocks

Corporate bonds and loans have become the "new" stocks. The day-to-day volatility of corporate bond mutual funds, espec...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by beliavsky
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by beliavsky