Salient to Investors: Look for lenders that specialize in poor credit or after-bankruptcy loans. Be prepared to pay a much higher interest rate, secure the loan with assets, accept a smaller loan amount. Improve your credit before you borrow by making all of your utilities to insurance premiums to credit
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Shane Brett at AllAboutAlpha writes: The long-term outlook for the US economy is broadly positive with housing stabilized, consumer confidence slowly returning, political instability solved by Obama’s decisive win, and as health spending increases under Obamacare. Cheap domestic energy will continue and the US will seriously expand
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: John Overstreet writes: Real commodity prices are highly correlated with equity yields. The most significant breakdowns in the correlation between equity yields and bonds occurs when short-term yields approach or break below 1.0 – as during the Depression, and for the last decade: i.e. the “risk premium”
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Lou Basenese at The Wall Street Daily writes: At the very least, an uptick in demand is ahead for housing-related and automotive companies. Richard Fisher at the FRB Dallas says US GDP could grow 3% in 2013 versus the average economist expectation of 2%. Pickup truck sales
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Phil Mause at Pacific Economics Group writes: Investors should buy up dividend stocks, business development companies (BDCs), REITs and other investments yielding more than bonds. A dividend stock led stock market could rise considerably – dips will be shallow as many investors will be waiting to get in.
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The IMF said: The world economy will grow 3.5 percent in 2013 and 4.1 percent in 2014, versus 3.2 percent in 2012. The euro region will shrink 0.2 percent in 2013, led by Spain and slowing growth in Germany, and grow 1 percent in 2014. The euro region poses a
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Exports from the US are set to pick up in 2013 as global growth strengthens. Gary Hufbauer at Peterson Institute for Intl Economics said competitive US industries include agriculture, medical supplies and aviation, and exports are a very high-paying sector of the US economy – jobs are more steady in export-oriented
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The Better Than Cash Alliance, partially financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said electronic transactions are better than cash payments because: Less corruption and theft when payments can be easily tracked. The money gets where it’s supposed to go. Electronic payment helps unbanked people establish a record
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Stuart Hoffman at PNC Financial Services said a little dip doesn’t take the momentum away, and for the first time in a while it’s as much a sellers’ market as a buyers’ market. Hoffman expects prices and sales to continue to rise in 2013. Lawrence Yun at NAR said the only concern
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: The world’s biggest investors are moving away from allocating money to government bond markets based on their amount of debt – a preference that has favored the largest borrowers for three decades. Allocations of bond funds based on GDP are still a small part of the total. Indexes based
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