by Diane Alter
The WMT stock price has gained nearly 1% today on some big acquisition news.
Reports say that Wal-Mart plans to acquire online retailer Jet.com.
Despite the news, there's one reason we're avoiding Wal-Mart stock in 2016...
by Alex McGuire
Crude oil prices have fallen more than 16% since June as investors worry about increasing supply.
But global demand will rise over the long term and offset any increase in production.
And the majority of this demand will come from one Asian country - and it's not China...
by Diane Alter
The Tesla Motors stock price is down about 4% this week following news it reached a deal to buy SolarCity and mixed earnings.
And shares have mostly floundered this year, down 5.92% year to date.
Here's why long-term investors should consider buying the dip.
by Shah Gilani
Since its inception, the Fed has ruined not just the U.S. economy, but also democracy.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average today is climbing after the Bank of England (BoE) cut interest rates.
To try and stimulate the economy ahead of Brexit, the BoE cut interest rates and introduced more stimulus to the economy.
by Alex McGuire
The Saudi Aramco IPO is expected to be one of the most important events in the history of the energy industry.
But the Saudi government has yet to reveal several important pieces of information regarding the deal.
Here are the three biggest Saudi Aramco IPO facts we're waiting to hear about...
The Federal Reserve has made some incredible policy mistakes since its creation.
But many question whether the Fed has always been such a haphazard institution.
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If negative-interest-rate policies (NIRP) sound like some kind of esoteric, unknowable concept, that's not by accident.
It's exactly what central bankers would like you to think.
In the same way people consider money something difficult to define, negative interest rates suggest some sort of complicated economic theory.
In fact, it's very simple. Instead of being paid to lend money, negative rates mean it costs you to lend. It's like the laws of physics have been turned upside down, as though gravity began to push rather than pull.
This "Bizarro finance" underlying NIRP couldn't exist without fiat money and central bankers hell-bent on destroying its value. I first mentioned this last year, when I recommended a negative rate protective profit play that's since gone on to do better than double the markets' return. At that point, negative rates were already eating into Europeans' savings.
The situation has only gotten worse in the meantime, with trillions more in sovereign debt under negative rates, and as you'll see, more banks "offering" their depositors a negative rate.
What's worse, the idea of negative rates is growing more popular among the global central banking set… including, ominously, Janet Yellen's U.S. Federal Reserve.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 41 points today after a surprise rally in oil prices.
Here's everything you need to know about what happened in the stock market today...
by Jack Delaney
Silver prices in 2016 are already offering incredible gains: 47%.
In times of economic uncertainty, investors flock to this precious metal.
