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What Are Chemical Bonds and Why Do They Form?
Attraction between atoms or ions leads to a chemical bond... (read more)

5 Ways To Protect Your Bond Portfolio From Rising Interest Rates
The Federal Reserve recently raised its target federal funds rate for the first time since March 2000... (read more)

I Bonds: Higher Interest, Safe as CDs and Money Market Funds
By this stage of your life, you have all heard the sage advice to save money for an emergency fund. Most financial articles and planners advocate keeping between six to twelve months of after-tax income in a money market or similar cash equivalent... (read more)

Pros & Cons of Investing in Bonds
What are Bonds?A bond is a debt security, by which you are lending money to a government, municipality, corporation, federal agency or other entity known as the issuer... (read more)

Forces that Move Stock Prices
Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation, interest rates, bonds, commodities and currencies... (read more)

Municipal Bonds
Because there are so many stocks that are NOT paying dividends and also going down people are looking for a safe investment that will pay a decent return and also won't lose money... (read more)

Making Bonds the Steroid Scandal
Public opinion these days seems to be swaying towards an acceptance of steroid use in baseball. People are not asking so much about if it is being done, but rather how can you actually prove it... (read more)

Asset Location? Increase Investing Returns & Reduce Your Taxes
Location? Once the holy grail only for real estate investors is fast becoming the mantra for every stock, bond, and mutual fund investor... (read more)

How to Calculate the Value of Your U.S. Savings Bonds
If you?e like many Americans over the age of 55, you?e probably had money taken out of your paychecks for years and years in order to purchase U. S. savings bonds... (read more)

The Convertible Craze Brightens The Future Of Equities
Convertibles are stealing the show with their safe investment image in today?? rotective?market. They seem to be overshadowing the stocks and bonds, and this holds true for the mediocre issuers... (read more)

Bonds Deals Baseball yet Another Black Eye
As the steroid talk swirls around baseball like the juice surging into Jason Giambi? veins, America? favorite pastime continues to be bruised, right when spring training is getting started... (read more)

Where to Invest Your Money
If you are new to investing, or even if you've been playing the market for a while, investment options can be overwhelming. Stocks, bonds, mutual funds... (read more)

Long Term Financial Vehicles
Investing in long-term financial vehicles give you the most gains but it also puts your funds at greater risk... (read more)

Investment Strategies and Human Behavior
Overreaction is probably the most popularly known effect of human behavior on market prices. All things being equal, in a rational market the fundamentals of a company should determine its market price, and there should be a clear relationship between... (read more)

Breaking Bonds
Direct Answers - Column for the week of March 8, 2004 I am just out of high school, and I have come to realize what I really want is completely out of my family's standards... (read more)

Going Bankrupt in the World
Going Bankrupt in the World by: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D. It all starts by defaulting on an obligation: Money owed to creditors or to suppliers is not paid on time, interest payments due on bank loans or on corporate bonds issued to the public are withheld... (read more)

A Recipe for Living
As a professional speaker, father and business owner I often like to share personal experiences and lessons I have learnt with others. It is with pride and pleasure I share one with you today – the ‘Recipe for Living’... (read more)

Tips for Investing
Many people want to take advantage of the opportunity to invest as a way to supplement their income, but few people have the knowledge or the time to monitor stocks and they are reluctant to pay the high fees associated with full-service brokers... (read more)

Investing and Asset Allocation
Sometimes you spend sleepless nights worrying about which stocks to buy and which to sell, which funds to own and which to dump and whether to get into bonds... (read more)

The 1% Solution
You probably know the story of Sherlock Holmes and the 7% solution. He had a drug addiction. He needed the drug. He was able to control his addiction by taking the drug in a 7% concentration. Anyone with common sense knows you cannot survive on 7%... (read more)

Asset Allocation: Critical to Your Investment Success
Asset allocation is a critical component of investing success. Both research and academic studies show asset allocation to be single most significant factor in determining your financial goals... (read more)

Distressed Assets Profiting From Mistakes Of Others
Distressed asset investing can cover a wide range of scenarios from foreclosures on private homes, to buying and selling assets in failed companies, to stocks and bonds in... (read more)

The Surety Bond Domino Effect
I have written many articles about the hard surety bond market. To my surprise many want to know more details as to how we got to where we are at. Like all industries the surety bond industry is heavily influenced by the economy... (read more)

Laddering Bonds: Basics To Know
Volatility of income can be as much a concern as volatility of growth, perhaps more so since income is an immediate need... (read more)

True Essence of Yoga
Yoga is the most prestigious field of spiritualism. People think about 6 wheels (Chakras) or lotus flowers present in the spinal card, which are not seen by the eyes. They are imaginary and so they carry some inner meaning... (read more)