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On the surface, it can be hard to distinguish one total bond market index fund from another. For instance, five of the funds on our list, all except VBTLX and the sustainable-investing option, primarily track the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. That’s no accident, since it’s widely considered the main benchmark for the U.S. bond […]
A bail bondsman is facing criminal charges in Florida for allegedly approaching incarcerated women and offering to bond them out if they give him sex in return. Russell Bruce Moncrief faces counts of human trafficking and racketeering – along with accusations that he used his authority within the criminal justice system to prey on particularly […]
To find the best high-yield bond mutual funds, we began with the Fidelity Investments screener. Our initial list was 381 funds, including both taxable and tax-exempt municipal bond mutual funds. We screened out all funds with lower than neutral Morningstar rankings. The remaining group included many institutional class funds with minimum initial investments of at […]
To determine our top choices for the best junk bond ETFs, we screened the available universe of high-yield corporate bond funds using the following criteria: Funds with an overall credit rating of A- or better A credit rating of B or better for returns An expense ratio of less than 0.65% An ETF with an […]
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Critic’s Rating: 4.9 / 5.0 4.9 I didn’t see that one coming. Chicago Med Season 10 Episode 4 could have gone in a different, darker direction for Hannah, and part of the reason it didn’t is that she received support from a surprising source. No, not Ripley, though I’m also surprised that he isn’t being […]
Wall Street: Short selling and short squeezes explained In most cases, profits are made in the stock market as the price of a share rises. But short sellers can make money as value drops and lose money as it rises. U.S. equity markets were little changed Thursday morning as traders weighed continued improvement of the U.S. economy and a […]
The Beauty Brains episode 216 featuring cosmetic chemists Valerie George and Perry Romanowski. Beauty questions covered today include: How do bond builders work? Is sodium coco sulfate more gentle than SLS? Does men’s antiperspirant better than women’s? Beauty Science Avon launches a new CBD skin care line. R+Co just launched a CBD Beauty Questions Question […]