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SOCHI, Russia (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Friday that gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine may continue even after the launch of a new prospective Germany-bound pipeline under the Baltic Sea. …read more […]

ExxonMobil, American Tower, and AT&T should top your list of dividend stocks you can set and forget. …read more […]

Houston-area media citing unnamed law enforcement officials are reporting that there are fatalities following a shooting at a local high school Friday morning. Television station KHOU and the Houston Chronicle are citing unnamed federal, county and police officials following the shooting at Santa Fe High School, which went on lockdown around 8 a.m. The Associated Press has not been able to confirm the reports. School officials said law enforcement officers were working to secure the building “and initiate all emergency management protocols to release and move students to another location.” Students from the high school were being transported …read more […]

Leaked footage from a Gates Foundation question-and-answer session shows Bill Gates slamming President Donald Trump. The billionaire Microsoft founder said Trump referred to himself in the third person in private. What do billionaires and industry leaders say about President Donald Trump behind closed doors? …read more […]

China denied on Friday that it had offered a package to slash the U.S. trade deficit by up to $200 billion, hours after it dropped an anti-dumping probe into U.S. sorghum imports in a conciliatory gesture as top negotiators meet in Washington. U.S. officials had said on Thursday that China was proposing trade concessions and increased purchases of American goods aimed at cutting the U.S. trade deficit with China by up to $200 billion a year. …read more […]

The financial arms of Ford and GM produce significant chunks of their bottom lines — when conditions are right. Here’s what investors need to watch. …read more […]

Survivors benefits can help protect your loved ones if you die prematurely. …read more […]

Pipeline operators Enbridge Inc, Williams Cos and Cheniere Energy Inc said on Thursday they would restructure after a U.S. rule change removed a key tax benefit for publicly traded partnerships controlled by those companies. Williams said it would buy all common units of its master limited partnership (MLP) Williams Partners in a deal valued at $10.5 billion. Enbridge said it would buy its independent units including Spectra Energy Partners and Enbridge Energy Partners as well as its pipeline assets and bring then under a single listed entity for …read more […]

The bizarre recent tale of ZTE is getting another wrinkle. Earlier today, a …read more […]

“If you go on a racist rant, you’ve finished your career pretty well,” says “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary. …read more […]

Trump made the comment on the anniversary of Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel to head the Justice Department investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Trump campaign official. …read more […]

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted anew before dawn Thursday, shooting a steely gray plume of ash from its summit about 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) into the sky that began raining down on a nearby town. …read more […]

The Washington Post reported just yesterday that Apple was talking with …read more […]

“I believe there is no other proposition in economics which has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the efficient market hypothesis.”

– Michael Jensen, Harvard Business School professor emeritus of business administration
You may have heard of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH).

Put simply, it states that stock prices reflect all information in the markets.

As a result, a stock will always trade at its fair value.

That, in turn, makes it is impossible to “beat the market” consistently.

So you should give up on picking stocks and invest all your money in index funds, right?

By matching the market, you will ensure that you end …read more […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was one year ago Thursday when Robert Mueller, the former FBI director, was appointed as special counsel to take over the Justice Department’s investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. …read more […]