Tiffany to Open Moscow Store + MORE

There’s a 24.97% Bond allocation in the Star Fund (VGSTX). 50% in Roth IRA would make your asset allocation more than 5% bonds.

LSI has the opportunity to leverage flash technology into a higher stock price    

When I first started writing about investing in the 1990s, the whole notion of "e-commerce" was just getting going.

Analysts then thought this emerging form of retail would continually take away market share from traditional brick-and-mortar stores. They might not have expected that e-commerce would still be growing at a fast clip nearly two decades later…

Tesla (TSLA), the electric car manufacturer run by iconic entrepreneur Elon Musk, is revved up and ready to reshape the entire transportation industry.
I would say “auto” industry, but the way things are going … let’s not set the bar too low.
The latest news is that Tesla’s Supercharger Network is going to be expanding, tripling the number of stations to charge your Model S by the end of June — with coverage from Vancouver to Austin, Texas and from Chicago to the metro New York City area…

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New York City-based Tiffany is moving to Red Square.
Well, not “moving” so much as opening a new store, and not “to” Red Square so much as to the second-most famous building adjoining Moscow’s most famous Square — the mammoth GUM department store.
Beginning some time in Q1 2014, Tiffany will open a two-level, 4,520-square-foot store within GUM — the initials of the Russian words roughly translating as “State Department Store” — a locale Tiffany describes as “the city’s premier destination for luxury shopping and a center for art and culture…

For months, I’ve forecasted that interest rates would rise and, consequently, bond prices would fall. Now it’s happening…
In May, the Barclay’s U.S. Aggregate Bond Index – one of the most widely watched benchmarks for the fixed-income market – fell 1.62%. But many investors fared far worse…

This will be the diamond merchant’s first Russian retail location.    

June 3 (Bloomberg) — John Toohey, vice president of equity
investments at USAA Investment Management Co., discusses
investing in “dividend growing” companies. Toohey talks with
Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Carol Massar on Bloomberg Radio’s
“Taking Stock.”

What’s the use of a low expense ratio if your adviser charges more than an actively managed fund?