Oil Price Fundamental Daily Forecast – Slight Rise Indicates Traders Downplaying Recession Concerns

U.S. West Texas Intermediate and international-benchmark Brent crude oil futures are trading better on Friday after gapping yesterday's close. At 08:09 GMT, October WTI crude oil is trading $55.15, up $0.73 or +1.38% and December Brent crude oil is at $57.90, up $0.56 or +0.98%. On Thursday, the U.S. reported that retail sales rose 0.7% in July as consumers bought a range of goods even as they cut back on motor vehicle purchases, according to data that came a day after the 2-year/20-year U.S. Treasury yield inverted for the first time since June 2007 prompting a sell-off in stocks and crude oil.

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  Crude Oil Price Forecast – Crude oil markets show weakness on Friday

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  Crude Oil Weekly Price Forecast – Crude oil markets show signs of exhaustion

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Mark Cuban explains how to make a 16% guaranteed return

As Mark Cuban, the “Shark Tank” star, billionaire entrepreneur, and NBA franchise owner explains, just pay off your debts. The personal finance site NerdWallet put our revolving credit card balance at $420.22 billion in late 2018. The revolving number is just the credit card debt we carry from month to month.

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  North Carolina mother stole her children's identities to open 12 credit cards, deputies say

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  He stole from an FBI agent and used his credit card. Now police need help finding him.

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Senior rip-offs are soaring—and you won’t believe who the crooks are

For financial scammers, that means 10,000 potential new victims every 24 hours. While anyone, anywhere, at anytime can be a victim of a financial scam—and below are some of the most common ones—seniors are particularly at risk. “Older Americans are more vulnerable for many reasons,” says Joe Snyder of the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works with the financial industry, seniors groups and others to reduce rip-offs.

BlackRock’s Bet on Argentina’s Century Bond Gets Battered by Sell-Off

The century bonds, sold in 2017, tumbled 29% this week, even after gaining on Thursday and Friday. That's a big loss for the largest reported holders, which include BlackRock, Royal Bank of Canada, Legg Mason Inc. and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

10 Best Stocks to Buy and Hold Forever

In a market environment that overwhelmingly encourages constant activity by investors who seemingly want to double their money every week, a discussion of stocks to buy and hold forever seems comically out of place. Conversely, the fact that Warren Buffett's favorite holding period is “forever” and how he's got a track record most investors would envy is just as telling. With that as the backdrop, here's a rundown of 10 stocks to buy and hold forever … or at least until something significant changes with your life plans or the companies themselves.

Papa John’s has a new creative agency that will handle major Shaq ad campaign

Papa John's has named a new creative agency of record, which will be responsible for a major advertising campaign featuring former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal. The Louisville-based pizza chain appointed Camp + King as creative agency of record (AOR), according to a report by Adweek. Endeavor Global Marketing, Papa John's most recent AOR, was hired last August after a scandal emerged involving the company's founder and former CEO, John Schnatter.

The retirement crisis is bad for everyone — especially these people

The country is facing a retirement crisis, but some Americans are worse off than others. Workers in the top 20% of earnings distributions have half of all retirement wealth in both 1992 and 2010, compared with the bottom group, which saw its share fall from 3% to 1% between those years, a recent analysis at The New School's Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) found. The share of workers in the bottom fifth of the earnings distribution with no retirement savings jumped from 45% to 51% in those 18 years.

Here’s the game plan for U.S. stock investors if China retaliates against Trump

In the past, China has shown extraordinary restraint in response to U.S. tariffs and President Trump's critical tweets. Let us discuss your game plan if China retaliates, starting with the help of two charts. Please click here for an annotated chart S&P 500 ETF (SPY) Even though the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is the most popular index, for analysis purposes, investors ought to focus on S&P 500 because the most money is tied to the S&P 500 Index (SPX) of the largest U.S. companies.

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  Sino-US Trade Tension Softens: ETFs in Focus

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  How Christmas was saved from Trump’s China tariffs

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Fixed Income 'the Way to Go Right Now': UOB Private Bank

Francis Tan, investment strategist at UOB Private Bank CIO Office, discusses the opportunities he sees in the fixed-income markets, and the inversions in U.S. Treasury yields. He speaks with David Ingles and Yvonne Man on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.

It Looks Like 2 Big Catalysts are in Place to Spark an AT&T Stock Breakout

For those who are invested in or monitor AT&T (NYSE:T) stock, here are few interesting facts to chew on: For the first time since early 2017 — more than two and a half years ago — T stock's 20-day and 50-day moving averages are both solidly above the 200-day moving average. In other words, in 2019, T stock's 20-day moving average has broken above its 50-day moving average, both of those moving averages have broken above the 200-day moving average, and all three of those moving averages also have a positive slope. Then what happened to the AT&T stock price?

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  Moving Average Crossover Alert: Stantec

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  Moving Average Crossover Alert: First Republic Bank

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These 16 money wasters are why so many Americans can’t save for retirement

From the lofty perch of old age, and after a lifetime of thrift, I declare that I am qualified to comment on how not to waste money. We've all heard the reports: Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck, a large number can't come up with $400 for an emergency, and there's no money to save for retirement and other goals. Most of that data comes from surveys where people are, in effect, saying they don't have enough income.

‘Godfather’ of technical analyst says he’s never seen such ‘a confluence of confusion’ on Wall Street

He says the recent June 3 nadir for stocks is his technical floor, which could lead to deepening losses if the market fails to hold above those levels. Market technicians often view recent lows or highs as levels of buying support or selling resistance that if breached translate into a bullish or bearish investment phase. On June 3, the Dow put in a low of 24,819.78 (see chart below): Meanwhile, the S&P 500 index (SPX) sank to 2,744.45 and the Nasdaq Composite Index (COMP) put in a low of 7,333.02 on the same date.

5 Value Stocks With Fast-Growing Dividends

They have been growing consistently for the past several years. You can rely on them to continue to increase their dividends at these rates. Best Value Stocks: CIT Group (CIT) 2-Year Dividend Growth: +133% CIT Group (NYSE:CIT) is a bank holding company that has transformed itself into a vibrant, growing commercial lender after its demise in 2009.

Investors Should Buy General Electric Stock on Its Latest Decline

General Electric (NYSE:GE) stock price plunged more than 11% yesterday after forensic accountant Harry Markopolos issued a report accusing the conglomerate of massive accounting fraud and predicted that it could go bankrupt soon. Known for reporting Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme to the federal government years before Madoff was caught, Markopolos' has earned some credibility with The Street. For these reasons, I recommend that risk-tolerant investors buy General Electric stock on weakness.

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  General Electric's CEO makes big stock buy after market drop, fraud charges

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  GE Stock Recovers: Wall Street, CEO to the Rescue

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I built a nest egg of $1 million and I’m only 46 — so why do I still spend my waking hours worrying?

We have over $1 million in investments for ourselves, an additional $50,000 in investments for our two girls to be used for college. We have made investing mistakes, but we have learned from them. All told, we currently have over $1 million in investments for ourselves, an additional $50,000 in investments (529s and a Scottrade custodial account) for our two girls to be used for college, with our only debt being the final few years of our mortgage.

Bill Ackman explains his big bet on Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman believes that Berkshire Hathaway should see its share price "increase substantially" in the coming years. "The catalyst for our current investment in Berkshire is our view that the company is currently trading at one of the widest discounts to its intrinsic value in many years, at a time when we expect the operating performance of its subsidiaries to improve as a result of certain managerial and organizational changes at the company," Ackman wrote in an investor letter dated August 15. During the second quarter ended June 30, Ackman's Pershing Square Hathaway snapped up 3.51 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway's B shares (BRK-B), a position valued at north of $702 million.

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  7 Stocks Warren Buffett Is Buying or Selling

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  The Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio: All 47 Buffett Stocks

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Why Did JD.com and Alibaba Blow Past Estimates?

Despite a trade war, the slowing domestic economy and brutally aggressive competition, China's largest e-commerce technology companies have reported earnings that beat highest analyst estimates. China's online retail sales industry has remained surprisingly resilient amid China's slowing economy and trade war concerns. Selina Wang reports on "Bloomberg Markets: Asia."

Price Targets Raised On Alibaba Stock After Quarterly Earnings Blowout

Alibaba stock jumped Friday as the China e-commerce giant received several price-target hikes following the Alibaba earnings report that smashed estimates. China's largest technology company easily beat quarterly estimates despite a trade war and as China's economic growth, including retail sales, has slowed sharply over the past year. Alibaba reported results Thursday.

Here’s what smart rich people really do with their nest egg

Most people think they're above average in intelligence, relationship status and professional achievement. Social scientists call this “illusory superiority.” My business partner Scott Puritz, has found the one area where even above-average people, objectively smart, rich, successful professionals, seem to wave the white flag and admit to not understanding — money and investing. “One of the most shocking things is the low-level financial literacy throughout our culture,” Puritz told the Washington Post.

3 Warning Signals a Stock Market Crash Is Coming

Cheap Dividend Stocks to Load Up On So here are three warning signals I'm seeing that could cause problems for the market — and one step you can take today to make sure you're prepared for the worst… Market Crash Warning Signal No. Deep in Debt Let's go back to 2007 … right before the last time the market crashed. The economy had been humming along at a growth rate of 2% to 3% for the previous five years, which caused the S&P 500's earnings to double from the recessionary lows of 2002.

'Too much damage has been done': strategist on US-China trade war

The chance of a comprehensive deal between the United States and China to mitigate the ongoing trade war looks unlikely, according to Liz Ann Sonders the chief investment strategist and a senior vice president at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. SCHW) “We're really looking at an environment, I think, where too much damage has been done on the perception of both sides to expect a deal that looks anything like the comprehensive deal that was hoped for even a few months ago,” she told Yahoo Finance's On the Move. President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday highlighting the strength of the U.S. economy after Wednesday's massive market selloff.