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Maybe a decade is too much, so settle for 5 years, but you wanna be able to sleep. I don't care whether you're 40 years old or 80, the name of the game is an above average rate of return, somewhere between 5% and 10%, compounded. No money market funds, just courage.

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Are Apple earnings a toss-up?

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Profits have dived once again at BP. When can investors expect a recovery?

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Big banks are facing competitive pressures from two forces in recent years: regulators and new (fintech) competitors. Regulators have cracked down on many of the traditional activities that fueled growth in the financial sector during the pre-crisis boom. To compensate, many big banks have migrated towards more retail-like activities such as wealth management that face less regulation.

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Tim Cook meet Jay Hoag

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There's a troubling trend brewing in the restaurant world: according to two new research notes, the industry could be headed for a recession.

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I think it's possible that the Fed will push rates below zero when the next recession arrives. I explained why a few months ago in my free weekly column, Thoughts from the Frontline, at Mauldin Economics.

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Apple published its fiscal Q3 earnings on Tuesday, reporting that revenues fell by 15% year-over-year to about $42.4 billion amid shipment declines across its major product lines, while gross margins also contracted by 170 basis points to 38%, on account of a growing mix of low-end iPhone sales and FX impacts. Although the results were better than expected, the company’s performance in Greater China - a region that has been the biggest source of growth in recent years - was concerning. Revenues from the market (which includes Mainland China, Hong Kong and China) declined by about 33% year over year to roughly $8.8 billion...

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The most recent short interest data has been released for the 07/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 1,599,108 share decrease in total short interest for WhiteWave Foods Co (NYSE: WWAV), to 6,415,395, a decrease of 19.95% since 06/30/2016. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded. The number of shares short is then compared to the average daily volume, in order to calculate the total number of trading days (at the average volume) it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed. Average daily volume for WWAV at the 07/15/2016 settlement increased to 9,210,316, as compared to 1,847,884 at the 06/30/2016 report. That brought "days to cover" down to 0.70, a 83.94% decrease from the 4.34 days to cover calculated at the previous short interest data release.

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