About: Ned Moore

Is Gold for You? Myth-busting, For & Against The 'barbaric relic' is seeing regained investor interest with its 9% return in the recent quarter. Gold now trades at over $1,400 an ounce, a level not seen since 2013. Its one-year gain of 12.2% (as of 6/30) exceeds the 10% return generated by the S&P 500…

China-US trade negotiations continue to roil financial markets as bouts of positive news initially make US stock prices soar, and then fall precipitously when yet another war of words ensues. As the rhetoric between the world's two largest economies grows ever more vitriolic, market price swings intensify. Although a solution is still more likely than not,…

Why You (Probably) Shouldn't Be Roughly two weeks ago, for the first time in nearly twelve years, the yield (or interest rate) on long-term 10-year U.S. Treasury Bonds fell below the short-term yields of 3-month and one-year Treasury Bills. As a previous Ned's Notes discussed.... Read More....

Investing Lessons from Quantum Physics Fluctuations are Natural At the sub-atomic level nature can only be described as bizarre. Particles pop in and out of existence, electrons behave as.... Read More...    

Is Your Bank Cash Earning Next to Nothing? If you keep more cash at your bank than is necessary to avoid fees, it may be time to move it. For ten long years, cash deposits, held anywhere, returned near zero no matter where they were. Most people just left their undeployed dollars...Read More...

Fund Form Should Match Function   Misunderstanding how a fund works is a recipe for unhappiness Most NN readers know that investment funds vary widely in what and where they invest, like stocks or bonds, and how those securities are selected.  But many are likely not aware of the varied legal forms the investment funds themselves can…

Collectively sitting on about $19 trillion dollars, mutual funds are still how most people invest. There are over 9,000 of them in the U.S. and 45% of households own at least one. But how do you choose? Read more...

The Allure of Bitcoin may be an Illusion But Blockchain is the Real Deal The Bitcoin bonanza blazes on with Reuters recently reporting the price of a single coin hit $7,500 on the Luxembourg exchange, bringing the total value for the world's leading cryptocurrency to $130,000,000,000.00 (yes, 130 billion dollars). This may seem a relatively…