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Stock-market investors get a key piece of economic data on Good Friday, but won't be able to trade on it.
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The numbers: The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened 1.5% to $91.8 billion in February, according to the Commerce Department's advanced estimate released Friday. Economists polled by Econoday were looking for the deficit to widen slightly to a $90.6 billion deficit.
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Investors can now make turbocharged bets on or against the Magnificent Seven group of stocks due to the launch of an exchange-traded product offering five times leverage on the hot megacap technology sector. Of course, that doesn't mean they should.
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With $2.5 trillion invested in 401(k) retirement accounts 60 million Americans control a powerful chunk of cash. So how much attention do investors pay to this vast pool of savings? Not much. According to a new Wharton analysis of retirement accounts managed by The Vanguard Group in 2003 and 2004 participants in 401(k) plans made little effort to tend their defined-contribution plans once they were set up. Even among those who did trade regularly turnover rates were one-third those of professional money managers. Olivia S. Mitchell executive director of Wharton's Pension Research Council Stephen P. Utkus principal Vanguard Center for Retirement Research and researchers Gary Mottola and Takeshi Yamaguchi present their findings in a paper entitled "The Inattentive Participant: Portfolio Trading Behavior in 401(k) Plans." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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