Despite another bull market from 2003 through 2006, the returns on
stocks over the last dozen years have been dismal, while gold has regained its lustre.
Apple this week refreshed its MacBook Pro lineup with Intel's seventh - generation Kaby Lake processors, and early benchmarks for the notebooks suggest the 2017 models are up to 20 percent faster than the equivalent 2016 models equipped with Intel's sixth - generation Skylake processors.Specifically, the new 15 - inch MacBook Pro configured with a 2.9 GHz Core i7 processor has average single - core and multi-core scores of 4,632 and 15,747 respectively based on nearly a
dozen Geekbench 4 results so far.By comparison,
last year's 15 - inch MacBook Pro configured with a sixth - generation 2.7 GHz Core i7 processor, which was the equivalent high - end
stock configuration, has average single - core and multi-core scores of 4,098 and 13,155 respectively based on
over 4,800 Geekbench 4 results.On a