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5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on What is the Difference Between Accrued Interest and Capitalized Interest?

What is the Difference Between Accrued Interest and Capitalized Interest?

Two weird accounting processes, demystified!

5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Does a Capital Gain Distribution Affect Adjusted Cost Basis?

How Does a Capital Gain Distribution Affect Adjusted Cost Basis?

How mutual fund distributions affect your tax cost depends on what you do with them.

5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How Are Withdrawals From Mutual Funds Taxed?

How Are Withdrawals From Mutual Funds Taxed?

Knowing the tax consequences when you sell fund shares is crucial.

5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on NYSE Percent of Stocks Above 50-Day Average Nears November High

NYSE Percent of Stocks Above 50-Day Average Nears November High

A lot of attention is now being paid to stocks testing or exceeding their moving average lines. My February 20 message had a headline suggesting that the percent of NYSE stocks trading above their 50- and 200-day moving averages might be bottoming. Let’s take another look. The blue line in Chart 1 shows the % of NYSE stocks above their 50-day lines. Since February 20, that line has nearly doubled from 38% to 73%. That reflects the short-term improvement that’s taken place over the last month in major stock indexes.

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5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on It’s as Easy to Get Burned Up as it is Down

It’s as Easy to Get Burned Up as it is Down

If the market this year has taught us one thing it’s that it’s as easy losing money when the market is going up as when it is going down. Consider this.

After the first trading day of the year was over, the S&P closed at 2012. This past Friday the S&P got as high as 2009 before closing just below 2000. So for a brief moment, the S&P had changed just 3 points from the first trading day of the year up until Friday.

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5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on How to Calculate Amortization and Depreciation on an Income Statement

How to Calculate Amortization and Depreciation on an Income Statement

A primer on the accounting behind amortization and depreciation expenses.

5 March, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Voices Of Reason In An Unreasonable World – Meet The Free-Market Economist That Stood Up To Hitler

Voices Of Reason In An Unreasonable World – Meet The Free-Market Economist That Stood Up To Hitler

In the current time of unprecedented central-planner-focused monetary-policy experimentation and a growing bias towards collectivist and socialist attitudes, the similarities to what Wilhelm Ropke – the European economist who stood up to Hitler – had some seemingly ominous and prescient persepctives in 1933 before everything collapsed:

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