Warren Buffett warns against carrying a credit card balance: "You can't go through life borrowing money at those rates." (via CNBC Make It) cnb.cx/3fbqOZd

Sell signal for Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG). We reduced our position at avg price of USD 194.23. Unit costs were USD 199.53. Loss of 2.66%. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… #VUG #assetmanagement

Buy signal for Visa Inc. (V). We increased our position at avg share price of USD 192.50. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… #V #assetmanagement

Oops! Defaults on the rise: the face value of defaulted non-financial corporate bonds has jumped to $70bn in Q2 2020—the largest on record, IIF says. US firms account for two-thirds of the total.

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Good Morning- remember sometime 2 weeks ago we spoke about the importance of being given or gaining access to a fund fact sheet? Here is a great example of one from Standard Bank ZA on one of their globally managed funds. A fund fact sheet is like a CV of a Fund✊🏾

Retail traders are beating hedge funds: here are the shares they picked fnlondon.com/articles/retai…

Sell signal for T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (TROW). We reduced our position at avg price of USD 122.46. Unit costs USD 74.47. Gain is 64.44%. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… $TROW #TROW #assetmanagement

Sell signal for Otis Worldwide Corporation (OTIS). We reduced our position at avg price of USD 57.41. Unit costs were USD 45.35. Gain of 26.59%. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… $OTIS #OTIS #assetmanagement

Banks’ trading bonanza just keeps going — markets units to see 20% revenue surge fnlondon.com/articles/banks…

Sell signal for Nucor Corporation (NUE). We reduced our position at avg share price of USD 44.56. Unit costs USD 39.63. Gain of 12.44% for 5 days. Not bad at all. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… $NUE #NUE #Assetmanagement

Although this is for India, the content may be relevant to markets in other countries, too.

Dividend Stock Review: "A. O. Smith Corp (AOS) is a Dividend Champion with an impressive 26-year history of increasing their dividends. The last increase came in October 2019 when they increased their dividend by 9.1%" engineermyfreedom.com/dividend-stock… @EMF_01 #DividendAristocrats $AOS

Differences Between Brokers And Advisers: Suitability Vs. Fiduciary Standards: Paying for advice, it is critical to understand how the person providing advice gets paid and what their responsibilities are to the investor forbes.com/sites/forbesfi… via @forbes #Assetmanagement

Twitter's board is considering adopting a "poison pill" measure that would protect the company from hostile acquisition bids like the one launched by Elon Musk trib.al/Faeab4d

Bad Timing: Why trying to time the market is a bad idea and a suggestion what to do instead to improve investment results mannionmoney.substack.com/p/bad-timing?s… #investing #personalfinance

Q: Can I Trade an Index as an Asset? For example I would like to trade in NASDAQ. How do I do that? - This post gives an answer and gives more details how to approach this topic mannionmoney.substack.com/p/q-can-i-trad… #ETF #PersonalFinance #Investing

#Dividend Increases: Week 41 $ADC, $AOS, $HPQ, $NWN, $THO buff.ly/48SKCNp #investing

Tesla $TSLA earnings were released after hours. $ EPS: expected 0.74, reported 0.66 ❌ Miss -10.81% Revenue: expected $24.38B, reported $23.35B ❌ Miss -4.23%

Mr Market was in a bad mood today. At the close of regular trading the S&P 500 is down by 1.34%. We’ve seen better days. On the upside: This means that there are some stocks that might have an “on sale” sign on them. Just have another look! #investing #personalfinance