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MMA FREE WEEKLY COLUMN FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
September 27, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review What an event! The MMA 2024 Investment Retreat was greater than I ever imagined. The presenters offered remarkable new research and offered valuable strategies for long-term investing in the stock market (U.S., German, Hang Seng), Gold, Silver, Copper, U.S. Dollar, Euro, Yen, T-Notes, Real...
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September 13, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Note: No weekly column will be issued next week, as we will conduct the MMA Investment Retreat in Lake Bled, Slovenia, for that entire weekend. It’s going to be great! Mind-blowing new research and investment plans to be shared for the long-term investor. This is...
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September 6, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Note: There will be no weekly column issued in two weeks for the week of September 23, as we will be conducting the MMA Investment Retreat in Lake Bled, Slovenia, for that entire weekend. Review- The U.S. economy created slightly fewer jobs than expected in...
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September 3, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Note: Financial markets will be closed on Monday in the U.S. due to the Labor Day holiday. Review The Commerce Department reported Friday that the personal consumption expenditures price index rose 0.2% on the month and was up 2.5% from the same period a year...
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August 23, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid the groundwork Friday for interest rate cuts ahead, though he declined to provide exact indications on timing or extent. “The time has come for policy to adjust,” the central bank leader said. —Jeff Cox, “Fed Chair Powell Indicates...
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August 16, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Inflation extended a run of cooler readings in July, sealing the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its meeting next month. The consumer-price index rose 2.9% from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, the lowest reading since 2021...
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August 9, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on a 30-year loan tumbled to 6.47%, the lowest level in more than a year. While that is down from a peak of 7.79% in the fall, it remains sharply higher than the pandemic-era...
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August 2, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review U.S. job growth cooled sharply in July while the unemployment rate unexpectedly rose to the highest level in nearly three years. The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 114,000 jobs in July, missing the 175,000 gain forecast by LSEG economists. The unemployment rate...
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July 26, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review The Commerce Department said Friday its personal consumption expenditures inflation gauge rose 2.5% in June compared to a year earlier, slowing from its 2.6% pace in May….On the CME‘s FedWatch tool, which uses fed funds data to estimate the pricing of rate moves, odds...
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July 19, 2024
Listen on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon Watch on YouTube Review Financial services and doctors’ offices were disrupted on Friday, while TV broadcasters went offline as businesses worldwide grappled with an ongoing major IT outage. Air travel has been particularly hit, with planes grounded, services delayed and airports issuing advice to passengers…. cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike...
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