January 2008 had been an extremely volatile month as far as the equity markets were concerned. My portfolio is down a hefty 3.72% for the month, but it could have been worse since at one point (right around 1/23), I noted a fall of as much as 6%. It recovered slighly at the end of […]
For the purpose of free rebalancing, I submitted a request to transfer the ETFs I held in an IRA at VBS (Vanguard’s Brokerage Service) to WellsTrade (Wells Fargo’s free trade offering).
I was pleasantly surprised by the speed at which this was accomplished. I faxed in the request to WellsTrade on the morning of 2/04/2008 Monday. […]
Just read this off Fatwallet Finance: it appears that there were some municipal reset auction failures over the past two weeks. Here’s the first article:
A tortuously slow and painful credit ratings shakeout in the beleaguered bond insurance industry has helped cause the failure of US municipal bond auctions, the first known instance of this since […]
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