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They come in all shapes and sizes.
Mattel recently revealed a whole new line of its popular Barbie dolls, with "real life" body types - tall, petite and curvy. And while there are flaws in limiting the body types to three, as well as intro...
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The millennial generation is the biggest in U.S. history, with 92 million individuals, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This generation has less money to spend and higher debt levels than previous generations, accordin...
Learning ETFs through the art of animation.
Looking for a new way to help investors better understand ETFs? BlackRock's ETF shop iShares is hoping a new animated series of educational videos will be more helpful than your typical whitepape...
It's the Year of the Monkey. | Copyright Anthony Kwan, Getty Images
So far, 2016 has been characterized by market volatility, with the S&P 500 having 15 days of rising or falling by 1 percent or more on a closing basis, according to S&P Ca...
This year advertisers paid a total of $377 million, nearly $5 million for each 30-second slot during Sunday’s Super Bowl game, up from the $4.5 million paid last year. Like in years past, consumer brands like Snickers, Doritos and Budweiser m...
Still worrying. | Copyright Mario Tama, Getty Images
Seven years after the financial crisis, investors are still skittish even though they concede the recovery has gone well. In a recent survey of over 2,600 affluent and high net worth inv...
The Series 63, 65 and 66 exams are getting a facelift. The North American Securities Administrators Association announced the exams, which are administered by FINRA, are receiving updated content around topics such as social media and...
Negative interest rates might actually be good for gold prices, writes Alex Rosenberg on CNBC. Rosenberg argues that ultra-low inflation (rising inflation is typically needed for gold to rise, hence the long-term dip in gold prices) could sen...
Better than tech stocks. | wolfgangwoehrle/iStock/Thinkstock
Over 93 percent of investors on Openfolio, a platform for investors to share portfolios and performance, lost money last month. The few who had positive returns held more in cash...
The next generation? | Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Thinkstock
Financial advisors should fear not just the current iteration of robo advisors, but also what they could become, writes Russ Alan Prince for Forbes. He said that while robo adviso...
