Not exact matches
Although this guy had painstakingly set up a
bond ladder to
take himself
out of the equation, the
market was tempting him with higher prices.
Malkiel (left), the Princeton economist best known as the author
of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, now in its 12th edition,
took to the op - ed pages
of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, saying investors who would «pull their money
out of the stock
market today to invest in
bonds are making a huge mistake.»
In general, investors should avoid the temptation to trade tactically in and
out of the
bond market, and instead
take a steady and balanced approach to asset allocation.
okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the
market is heading as we head
out of ressesion and the bank
of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt
taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot
of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the
bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.
I spent a lot
of time in our local library pulling
out microfilm & microfiche and looking up stocks,
bonds, indexes, cost
of living / govt info, real estate, etc information from ~ 1900 until (then) recent times in the wall street journal (this was pre internet — what
took many weeks then now just
takes a few minutes, but the Lotus 1 -2-3 spreadsheet program was very helpful in doing the analysis) and then analyzed the results and concluded that the «only» investment strategy that made any sense was 100 % stock (absolutely the best return over time); but... there was that pesky thing called recessions, depressions, stock
market corrections etc..
«In my view, the genie is
out of the bottle, and crypto - currencies will continue to rise and
take market share away from stocks, other precious metals,
bonds, and currencies,» he wrote in his 122 - page report on digital currencies.