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The 60-40 stock-bond portfolio has been a bedrock of traditional investing, but it’s also been a loser thus far in 2022. “Investors who own a 60-40 balanced portfolio just feel like they’ve been punched in the gut,” Emily Roland, co-chief investment officer at John Hancock Investment Management, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above), adding that year-to-date so far it’s down about 10%. A 60-40 portfolio consists of 60% equities and 40% bonds or other fixed-income offerings. Stock and… Source link

The market is in full panic mode. The S&P 500 is down 18% year to date. The Nasdaq is down a staggering 27%. And even the Dow Jones — made up of the 30 most prominent publicly-traded companies — is in correction territory. According to Bank of America, there’s one thing that might save the stock market in 2022: money that corporations can return to shareholders. “The best hope for 2022 bulls lies in the ability of investors to dislodge the $7.1 trillion in idle U.S. corporate cash,”… Source link

The amount of bitcoin held on exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, have dropped to lower than they were in November last year. Photo: Reuters Major cryptocurrencies were down on Friday morning after a volatile week amid rising concerns over bitcoin’s environmental impact. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was down 0.4%, still struggling to cross the $50,000 (£36,237) mark. It was trading at $47,900 at the time of writing. Many supporters on Twitter are hopeful it will hit $100,000 by the end of the… Source link

While some progressive Democrats continue to push the president to cancel student loan debt, there’s a bipartisan effort underway to overhaul the student loan system in another way: by making bankruptcy discharges more accessible for student debtors. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced a new bill called the “FRESH START Through Bankruptcy Act of 2021” last week to better enable borrowers to seek a student… Source link

Milo Golding of Kentucky created Finding Hope, the winning entry in the 2021 Doodle for Google contest. Milo Golding … Source link

A Kentucky teenager’s artwork in memory of his late father will appear on computers around the world Tuesday. Milo Golding’s “Finding Hope” was named the winner of the 2021 Doodle for Google competition, and the piece will appear on Google homepages. Golding, an 11th grader at Lexington Christian Academy, was told the good news by Google CEO Sundar Pichai after being named one of five finalists out of 54 students from every U.S. state and territory. “I can’t tell you how inspiring we found… Source link

Milo Golding of Kentucky created Finding Hope, the winning entry in the 2021 Doodle for Google contest. Milo Golding … Source link

The Republican Party finds itself in befuddling circumstances as former President Donald Trump prepares to hold political rallies again, beginning this weekend with an appearance in North Carolina. Trump was one of the only Republican candidates to lose a high-profile competitive race in 2020. GOP candidates won the majority of close races across the country, in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House and in state legislatures and gubernatorial races. Yet the party remains stuck with Trump as its… Source link

Grammy award winning artist Ciara joins a long list of celebrities welcoming the Biden administration into the White House after four tumultuous years under former President Donald Trump. “There’s a new hope and I have faith we are going to get better. There has been so much conversation around what has been happening, and I think it’s very necessary during these times. I believe it’s also going to be a part of contributing to us getting better as a whole, as people and as a world,”… Source link

Sarah Fuller is not going to play in the NFL. That didn’t mean the NFL, and the football industry that surrounds it, wasn’t watching as the Vanderbilt women’s soccer goalie became the first female to play in a major conference college game when she served as the Commodores’ placekicker on Saturday. The NFL is played by men. Through its 100-plus-year history, it has also almost exclusively been coached by men, run by men and had almost every tentacle of its business dominated by men.