Just in time for the busy Christmas travel season, London’s Gatwick Airport was shut down for an entire day by large drones being flown near the runways. While authorities first thought that the drones may have veered into the airport’s airspace by accident, it soon became clear that the drones were being intentionally flown into […]
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It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that gold is rising in price as stocks are sliding. Gold investors have known for years that gold prices often rise when stock prices fall, as mainstream investors who spurn gold during boom times flock to the yellow metal when market conditions begin to deteriorate. Now gold’s performance […]
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To many cryptocurrency investors who got in at the height of the craze in late 2017 and early 2018, the rest of 2018 seemed like a bitter disappointment. From highs of $20,000 Bitcoin seemed to crash and burn, ending the year at around $4,000. But what many of those fair-weather friends fail to remember is […]
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As investors look at their year-end portfolio holdings, 2018 might be a year they would rather forget about. Assets of all types were down almost across the board. From stocks to bonds to commodities, nothing and no one was spared. Stock markets were especially hard hit, with the Dow Jones starting the year just under […]
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With heart disease remaining one of the largest killers in the United States, more and more Americans are taking steps to reduce their risk of developing the disease. Most people are aware of the role that diet and exercise play in staying healthy and warding off heart attacks and stroke, and so they take steps […]
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As 2019 begins, many market observers will be watching the Federal Reserve carefully for signs of a change in monetary policy. Markets had been hopeful that the Fed wasn’t going to raise rates in December, but it stuck to its guns. The reaction, predictably, was a huge fall in stock markets. But with the Fed […]
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