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Now that many Agency bonds will be getting called, does anyone know how to get notified when a bond in your brokerage is going to be called (e.g., 5 day notice of bond being called). I’m seeing agency bonds trading at YTM of 6.4% and below. Therefore, the 6.58%, 6.55%, and maybe even the 6.375%...

I’m really hoping that Tuesday wasn’t the bottom of the bond market drop. It was a hard bottom - big drop into the bottom (from Friday to Tuesday) and big jump out (from Tuesday to Wednesday). If tomorrow, the Fed guy says good things about nearing the end of rate increases, then Tuesday will...

Yikes! I’ll need to look into the “which tax year” more closely before doing 2023 taxes.

As an example, Vanguard reports it to customers as information helpful for filing taxes, but doesn’t provide anything about where to put it on tax forms. That is fine with me - I just need the values and it’s nice they name the bond. Vanguard provides individual values for accrued interest on...

Usually, with certain bank bonds, they can only be called if there is a tax law change making them less beneficial to the bank (e.g., making them not count as capital). So, all of your sources are mostly correct - they can’t be called by WF unless there is a triggering event. They look pretty...

What’s wrong with Jeffries (JEF) bonds? Jefferies isn’t a bank, but their bonds sure seem to have been punished with the banks. They seem to be one of the highest yield-to-maturity companies in the BBB range (except for the banks). Jefferies stock is held by Berkshire Hathaway and a major...

I’m here to ask you all’s opinion on Triton preferred shares. I recently purchased a small amount of TRTN preferred C at $23/share. It’s fixed yield equates to 8% at $23/share and it seems like Brookfield Infrastructure (BIP) will call this preferred in late 2024 after the Triton acquisition by...

That happens a lot around Christmas. Amazon must use temporary workers (non-employees). Last year at Christmas time, a delivery person put an Amazon package over the fence in my side yard (dropped it over the fence). I found it a week later. It had been rained on.

I have to figure out how to bundle my bond holdings into a business. They function like one (I have employed each bond to go out and perform a function which generates revenue). However, I think that my business of buying bonds still is passive (direct) and income. :( Congrats on the Real...

All I can add is that I see a lot of women on the specific cancer board that I follow but not a lot of men or husbands of patients. I see many things that I’m concerned men and husbands of cancer patients would benefit from. For example, there are many financial and healthcare resources...

Is there a classified section on here that you could post it? My friends have said (in the past) that I buy worthless land.

Why not switch to a rental agreement (until they can get financing) or a rent-to-own? Then you won’t be paying your failed realtor. It will also be simpler.