Navios to Pay Next Distribution in August + MORE

Weak economic data and a big earnings report held the markets in check today.    

A few years ago, bank stocks were among the most unloved investments. Many of them traded well below book value and also sported low price-to-earnings multiples. Yet a pair of factors has led investors to rapidly warm up to bank stocks.
First, the global economic crisis no longer seems to be a mortal threat to bank's balance sheets…

I’m a pretty big bear on precious metals (well, all commodities really) in the near-term thanks to the slowdown in China and a strong dollar keeping a cap on pricing. Everything from gold to crude oil to copper is suffering in this scenario – and when you add in the negative sentiment around gold and the pressure due to redemptions in asset-backed funds like the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), it’s hard to call a near-term bottom…

Fortune magazine’s most recent “Fortune 500” issue tracked the stock-price performance of the 500 biggest U.S. companies from 2002-2012, and found that 46 of them produced annualized compound gains of more than 20%.
That’s means over the 10-year period studied, these stocks were six-baggers: They each produced a six-fold gain…

Rather then "Age in Bonds", I would want to have,at retirement, a "Bond" allocation that covered a certain time frame ( 10, 20, 30yrs … ) of projected expense needs over SS/Pension. That should be the goal.

July 22 (Bloomberg) — Scott Martelle, author of “Detroit:
A Biography,” discusses the city’s history and issues that may
have led to its bankruptcy filing. Martelle talked with
Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Radio’s
“Taking Stock” on July 19th.

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As far as unitholder payouts are concerned, the seas for Navios Maritime Partners are calm and smooth. The company has declared its latest quarterly distribution, which is to be $0.4425 per unit paid on Aug. 13 to holders of record as of Aug. 8. That amount matches each of Navios’ previous four disbursements, the most recent of which was paid in mid-May…

A few years ago, bank stocks were among the most unloved investments. Many of them traded well below book value and also sported low price-to-earnings multiples. Yet a pair of factors has led investors to rapidly warm up to bank stocks.First, the global economic crisis no longer seems to be a mortal threat to bank's balance sheets…