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Bond Investing

Bond investing, investment grade bonds, junk bonds, high yield bonds, government bonds, how to invest in bonds, and the rols of bonds in your investment portfolio.

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Recent mortgage rates trends are all one way - downward! Photo:pnwra72

Recent Mortgage Rates Trends

Recent mortgage rates trends have defied all long-range predictions. Back in '07, when mortgage rates were sliding down towards 6%, all the pundits were saying that it couldn't last much longer. I mean we were talking mortgage rates lower than had been seen at any time since the oil price shocks to inflation in the early 1970s.

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High Yield Investments

In low interest times, everyone's attention turns to high yield investments. When you have become accustomed to getting 6% or even 8% on your cash at call, a sudden drop to 4% is painful. It can be tempting to look farther afield than cash management accounts. Don't get me wrong - you should definitely diversify in any case. But avoid the temptation to swing a sizeable portion of your capital into corporate bonds, debentures, and securitization funds.

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Lump Sum Investment

Wouldn't we all love to have a lump sum investment? Sadly, very few people find themselves with a lump sum investment as a result of a lottery win. Most lump sum investments are the product of unpleasant and...

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Best New Personal Finance Blogs 2008

Whether it's mortgages, interest rates, foreclosures, and refinancing, or it's credit cards, debt consolidation and credit repair, financial issues impact every one of us in different ways throughout our lives. Schools don't teach this stuff, and it can be pretty difficult to pick it up as adults, too. Blogs can help to fill the gap, because a blog post is a neat, contained piece of information about one specific topic - sort of "bite-sized" financial education, as it were.

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