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Educated but Buried in Debt
May 23, 2013
Content provided by Sadie Brewer, CLS Marketing Communications Specialist Lately I’ve seen and heard a lot of talk about the increasing cost of college, high student loan interest rates, and the looming question: is the reward worth the cost? For example, some analysts are calling the $1 trillion in student loan debt the next bubble,…
Clean, Green, and Sunscreen
May 14, 2013
Content provided by Grant Engelbart, CLS Research Analyst Unlike most people, the sun is my enemy. I love being out in the sun, unfortunately I have about a 15 minute window before my skin starts on fire. The good news, for the large majority of people on earth, is that the sun is good. We…
Char-Buff on the Cheap?
May 8, 2013
Content provided by Matt Santini, CLS Portfolio Manager I know, I know…..please contain yourselves. Oscar’s (a local favorite restaurant) made it to the daily commentary. I know a good wing when I eat one, and that strip-mall-dynamo of a dive did not disappoint. In the same somewhat lateral eureka moment of “hot ice” (“Rookie of…
Google Search Terms May Predict the Stock Market
May 7, 2013
Content provided by Jacob Godwin, CLS Trading Specialist In a new attempt to measure consumer sentiment and time the market, British researchers Preis, Moat, and Stanley used data from Google Trends to predict large movements in the stock market by analyzing the volume of query searches of 98 financial terms. Joseph Stromberg, from the “Smithsonian”…
Austerity?
May 3, 2013
Content provided by Rusty Vanneman, CFA, CLS Chief Investment Officer There has been a lot of talk about “austerity” lately, especially given all the discussion on the Reinhardt and Rogoff (R&R) study. Yet government spending is still 24 percent of GDP (while that is below the 25 percent plus, from a few years ago, it…
140 Characters or Less: #DowPlummets
April 26, 2013
Content provided by Case Eichenberger, CLS Internal Wholesaler As a Millennial, I am constantly using social media. When I was in college, not too long ago, Facebook was just getting started and was being pushed to other schools outside the first social network of Harvard University. Twitter has since followed, allowing people to “tweet” their…