The Traderszone Network

National Collegiate Funding (NCF) is an umbrella name for 15 trusts that collectively hold 800,000 private student loans, totaling some $12 billion in outstanding obligations.  The only problem is that roughly $5 billion worth of those loans, or over 40%, are currently in default (and you thought auto delinquencies were bad). 

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The benefits are similar to other high-end cards, but the initial spending limit is much higher.
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The Gemini Companies has named ex-OppenheimerFunds executive and former SEC Division of Investment Management senior counsel Brian Hourihan as regulatory compliance officer for the group’s Northern Lights Compliance Services division. 

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“We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.”

That was the comment of Twitter user Bilal Farooqui who this afternoon surprised the social network with a bizarre image: a robot which “commited suicide” by drowning itself in a public fountain.

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You say you’ve found yourself a cheap stock — and congratulations for that! But doesn’t it seem like it’s a bit too cheap? Every value investor may eventually encounter the suspicion that a cheap stock may be a “value trap” instead — one that’s cheap for a reason and may never rise to fair value, despite an investor’s fondest hopes.

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Conservative investors sometimes shun tech stocks because they look riskier than stocks in other industries. After all, Warren Buffett famously avoided tech stocks for most of his career, and Peter Lynch told investors to always “invest in what you know” — which often excludes tech companies.

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Bank of Japan meeting this week, some headlines crossing on Bloomberg
– No changes are likely at the policy board’s meeting this week
– Some officials at the Bank of Japan are increasingly concerned about the sustainability of the BOJ’s purchases of exchange-traded funds, according to people familiar with discussions at the central bank
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