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A real estate investment trust, or REIT, is a specialized company that lets investors get real estate exposure in their stock portfolios.

Authored by StraightLineLogic.com’s Robert Gore, via The Burning Platform blog,

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Accountants amortized intangible assets just like they depreciate physical capital assets.

Shares in China dropped sharply Monday as China’s central bank guided the yuan to its weakest level in three weeks, just after Chinese officials at a meeting in Shanghai worked hard to dispel worries about China’s economic strategy.
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A funny thing happens to an index’s valuation when you choose not to entirely ignore the companies that have negative earnings (i.e. losses). Ever wondered what the P/E ratio of the Russell 2000 was given that it is full of companies where the ‘E’ is negative? The answer is simple – and ugly – as The Wall Street Journal exposes, the aggregate P/E of the Russell 2000 is over 200x which perhaps explains the gaping chasm between bond and equity valuations for this highly credit-sensitive cohort.

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Learn how to deal with abrupt and non-recoverable asset-value declines on the balance sheet.

China’s government stripped a prominent and outspoken businessman of his social media accounts after he issued a rare direct challenge to President Xi Jinping over the loyalties of state-controlled news media.
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