ERROR: Compressed web pages of such size are unsupported
Access the latest research from mutual fund thought leaders
Access research from the fund industry as soon as it is available. We curate the most relevant research reports from top analysts and firms, and we write a one-paragraph abstract with a link to read the full report. This is a free service from Advis…
Intuit Small Business Index: Up Fractionally
The latest Intuit Small Business Employment Index (SBI) came out this morning, which measures employment in firms with fewer than 20 employees with data going back to 2007. The real-time data comes directly from Intuit software, not from surveys, an…
NFIB: Small Business Index Unchanged in October
The latest issue of the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends is out today. The update for October came in at 96.1, unchanged from the previous month. The index remains at the 29th percentile in this series. Today’s number came in slightly below the I…
S&P 500 Snapshot: The Selloff Accelerates
On a day with relatively little economic news US equity markets declined at an accelerating rate, with the benchmark S&P 500 posted its fourth consecutive loss. The index opened at its -0.13% intraday high, plunged sharply and slid to its -1.48% int…
Weekly Gasoline Price Update: Regular and Premium Up Two Cents
It’s time again for our weekly gasoline update based on data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). The price of Regular and Premium gained about two cents each. WTIC ended today at $48.37, up $2.23 from the previous week. According to Ga…
Multiple Jobholders: Two Decades of Trends as of October
What are the long-term trends for multiple jobholders in the US? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has two decades of historical data to enlighten us on that topic, courtesy of Table A-16 in the monthly Current Population Survey. At present, multiple …
The Labor Market Conditions Index for October: Back Above Zero with Revisions
The Labor Market Conditions Index (LMCI) is a relatively recent indicator developed by Federal Reserve economists to assess changes in the labor market conditions. It is a dynamic factor model of labor market indicators, essentially a diffusion inde…
World Markets Weekend Update: Six Up, Two Down
Six of eight indexes on our world watch list posted gains over the past week, up from three up the previous week. China’s Shanghai Composite was the outstanding performer, up a whopping 6.13%. France’s CAC 40 was a distant second with its substantia…
S&P 500 Snapshot: Flat for the Day, Up 0.95% for the Week
The better-than-forecast October employment report presumably strengthened the odds of a December Fed rate hike, but the market’s reaction was surprisingly subdued. The S&P 500 opened fractionally lower, hit its 0.09% intraday high minutes later and…
The Big Four Economic Indicators: September Nonfarm Employment
Note: This commentary has been updated to include Nonfarm Employment for October. As the adjacent thumbnail of the past year illustrates, Nonfarm Employment remains in its upward trend and the October report of 271K new jobs is the biggest monthly i…
ECRI Weekly Leading Index: "Checked by China"
ECRI’s latest weekly data point shows a fractional decrease from the previous week’s revised number and their latest feature commentary published earlier this week highlights the impact of declining Chinese imports.
More…
— Delivered by Feed…
October New Jobs Surprise Forecast; September Revised Slightly Downward
Today’s report of 271K new nonfarm jobs in October was significantly higher than the Investing.com forecast of 180K. September nonfarm payrolls was revised downward by 5K. The unemployment rate dropped 0.1 to 5.0%.
More…
— Delivered by Feed4…
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Fractional Decline Before Friday’s Employment Report
The S&P 500 ended the session with a fractional decline. The pre-market economic release of weekly jobless claims was a bit disappointing. Today’s seasonally adjusted 276K new claims was a 16K rise over the previous week and the largest weekly incre…
New Jobless Claims: Worse than Forecast
Today’s seasonally adjusted 276K new claims was worse than the Investing.com forecast of 262K. The four-week moving average is at 262,750, up from last week’s 259,250, which was at a its lowest levels since 1973.
More…
— Delivered by Feed43 …
S&P 500 Snapshot: A Modest Decline Snaps a Two-Day Rally
The S&P 500 ended the session with a modest -0.35% decline. The pre-market economic news was a tepid estimate of 182K new nonfarm private employment jobs from ADP countered by the September trade balance, which was the lowest since February. The S&P…
ISM Non-Manufacturing: October Growth at Faster Rate
Today the Institute for Supply Management published its latest Non-Manufacturing Report. The headline NMI Composite Index is at 59.1 percent, up 2.2 percent from last month’s 56.9 percent. Today’s number came in above the Investing.com forecast of 5…
Anticipating October Employment: ADP Report at 182K
The economic mover and shaker this week is Friday’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This monthly report contains a wealth of data for economists, the most publicized being the month-over-month change in Total Nonfarm Employmen…
September Trade Deficit Lowest in Seven Months
The U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, also known as the FT-900, is published monthly by the Bureau of Economic Analysis with data going back to 1992. The monthly reports include revisions that go back several months. This report detail…
Diversified Asset Allocation Portfolios For Your Plans
Featured Brokerage Plans
| Vanguard ETF: | 10%* |  |
| Diversified Core: | 11%* | |
| Six Core Asset ETFs: | 10%* | |
*:5 Yr Annualized Return of TAA Moderate Portfolio
Bogleheads Latest Posts
- Re: Under what conditions is a 50/50 portfolio worse than any other? November 29, 2021pascalwager wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 2:52 pm Phyneas wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 2:13 pm nisiprius wrote: ↑Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:17 am 50% stocks (VTI+VXUS), 50% bonds. The bonds are there for ballast and hopefully some anti-correlation, not income, so they are treasuries only, split 50/50 between long and short, The long and […]Phyneas
- Re: How much of the historical average return comes from dividends? November 29, 202122twain wrote: ↑Mon Nov 29, 2021 2:37 am Using http://portfoliovisualizer.com to analyze Vanguard's 500 Index fund 1985-2021 I get: With dividends reinvested: Initial balance = $10,000 Final balance = $607,000 CAGR = 11.8% With dividends not reinvested: Initial balance = $10,000 Final balance = $218,000 CAGR = 8.7% So roughly a quarter of the S&P […]rossington
- Re: Afraid to realize capital gains or rebalance November 29, 2021I realize this doesn't answer your question, but depending on your personal goals, it might actually work around the problem. Bogleheads as a group tend to be extreme savers, but most believe at the end of the day that their intention is to spend the money eventually. Granted, some of that "spending" might be in […]dboeger1
- Re: High Cost Once-in-a-lifetime "Vacation" November 29, 2021I'll add myself to the "just do it" camp. Here's a trip that the wife might find more attractive. She can meet you at the pole. https://white-desert.com/adventures/sou ... -emperors/VaR
- Re: Tales from this insane real estate market November 29, 2021Bought a house about a year ago during what felt like must be a peak. I had a safety threshold of a 50% drop in value (of all non-cash assets including the house), plus a job loss without disastrous impact. It was very scary, but it was our plan before Covid and we decided not […]vfinx