It feels strange to start this post with a New Year salutation as we are now officially three weeks into 2019. For a variety of reasons, we held off on an update until now. We were hoping to see a resolution to both the ongoing trade talks with China and the government shutdown. Neither has […]
On Friday (5/4), the Bureau of Labor Statics (BLS) released their monthly nonfarm payroll employment data. In April, the United States added 164,000 non‐farm jobs missing consensus estimates of 192,000 jobs. While that number was below the average for 2018 thus far (200K), revisions to prior months added a net 30K jobs. The other major […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed overhauling its conflict-of-interest rules for brokers, a move likely ensuring that Wall Street won’t have to comply with much tougher regulations approved at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. SEC Chairman Jay ClaytonPhotographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg At a public meeting in Washington, SEC commissioners led by Chairman […]
This is the first of a series of articles from life- and business strategist Tony Robbins on sharpening your investing and personal-finance skills. Doctors, lawyers, and certified public accountants in the United States are legally required to act in the best interests of the people they serve. Yet financial advisers get a free pass. There […]
