The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT), one of the most popular bond tickers on the planet, is down 10% year-to-date. Not exactly what retirees are looking for. Enter floaters. They have variable coupons—interest payments—that are calculated quarterly, or even monthly. Their rates...
Any reading under 50 indicates a month-over-month contraction in activity. The index was dragged down by lower domestic demand, which is a problem as Beijing has been trying to simultaneously reduce their economy's over reliance on exports, infrastructure building, cheap credit, and a cheap curr...
I was able tolock down the home with contingencies. Ultimately, I was able to buy the home for 14% off asking and 20% below what the sellers wanted, while the stock market rebound.
One could suppose deeper ocean doesn’t have such fluctuation in temperature as small region of land has [which bounce up and down by more than 1 C] but fluctuation less than 1 C must occur in some deeper water regions. Anyways one might imagine there is some very fragile temperature ...