A high-yield bond ETF without the junk

MarketWatch

Tom Lydon, editor of ETF Trends, says that investors looking for yield in an environment of historic lows need to be careful as they pursue better payouts, and he described the PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio ( PHB 0.11% ) as an appropriate step up the risk ladder rather than a climb to the dangerous top.

In naming the PowerShares offering as his “ETF of the Week”: [...]

The core problems of the Eurozone are fiscal (banks, sovereign backstops) and structural (ECB, treaties)

0. IMF does not buy sovereign debt. It makes loans to sovereigns and with highest seniority. This idea has also been completely squelched by ECB head Draghi’s most recent conference stating EZ NCB’s will not be involved (think about it: it deliberately bypasses ECB’s monetary system and European treaty).

1. Europe’s collateral crunch is a lot larger than just sovereign debt. Moving this little bit around different balance sheets would change nothing. In fact, they [...]

Store Owners: Occupy Wall Street costs local businesses $479,400!

HELAYNE SEIDMAN
TRASH TALK: Occupy Wall Street protesters have cost local businessmen like Mike Rauach, of VIP Men’s Suits, dearly. Customers “run away,” he says.

The Occupy Wall Street movement has cost surrounding businesses $479,400 so far, store owners said.

A Post survey of a dozen restaurants, jewelry shops, beauty salons, a chain store and mom-and-pop establishments tallied almost a half-million dollars lost in the 53 days since the Zuccotti Park siege began [...]

Oral Sex and STDs (Sexually Transmitted Disease)

It is all well & okay to be saying that oral sex is risky, though what extent of risk are you truly taking when you opt for practicing non-protected oral sex? Which STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) could be spread between the mouth & genital area & the other way round?

HIV

HIV transmission is very much a possibility when one engages in oral sex. The use of [...]

Forget about savings and invest in the stock market

I cant make this shit up !!

The warning came after official figures indicated that the cost of living had increased once again in November, making it nearly impossible to earn a real rate of return on any bank or building society savings product.

Mark Dampier, head of research at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdowne, said: “You need to keep emergency money in the bank, but it’s self-evident that UK income funds are yielding [...]