Freeper Investing Thread

Investment & Finance End of 2014 Q3 into Q4 Thread Edition

Comodities				Stock Indexes
	now	3 Mo. Chg.	Annualized return		now	3 Mo. Chg.	Annualized return
gold	$1,220.26	-7.2%	-25.9%	S&P500	1,982.85	1.2%	4.7%
silver	$17.71	-16.2%	-50.7%	DJIA	17,113.15	1.7%	7.0%
oil	$512.66	-6.2%	-22.6%	NASDAQ	4,512.19	2.4%	9.8%
U.S. $	$85.62	6.7%	29.8%	Rus2k	1,119.33	-6.2%	-22.5%

Here's what happened with the third quarter investments:

Looks like the dollar soared (so much for Fed printer devaluations), metals tanked (so much for safe havens), and while big cap. stocks have done best this past quarter the current status is "market under pressure" (read: under a cloud)

Looking forward to Q4 2014:

OK so while the future is anyone's guess we do know that these plotted guesstimates are what the Fed (FOMC) is planning on

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The new-quarter homework reading assignment. Note: this material will be on the Final Exam:

Facing Hostile Government, Adobe to Close China R&D Arm California-based company will maintain China sales offices, but research and development operations will cease by end of December More
US Economy Rebounds Faster Than Expected in Second Quarter It's a positive sign for rest of year, after a disastrous first quarter saw country’s domestic output shrink by more than two percent More
Money Forever One man's journey to save his retirement from the crisis economy [h/t Abb]
Wealthy Elites Want Their Money Out of China Leading US financial expert says rich Chinese want to get money out before financial collapseMore
Microsoft Offers First Look at New Windows Tech giant will unveil a new name for its best-known product Tuesday when it offers first official glimpse of latest operating system More
S. Africa Gives Cuba $31 Million Economic Aid South African President Jacob Zuma pledged the money to Cuba in 2010, but its implementation was delayed for several years More
Ford Motor Company Boosts Hiring Automaker says 1,200 new employees part of total of 14,000 company has hired in US as improving economy, lower costs increase sales More
Insightful Ways to Make the Fourth Quarter Incredibly Productive
What Successful Leaders Do in Challenging Times

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well. Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.