Medical Properties Trust stock continued its strong downward this week, reaching its lowest level since January 13 last year. MPT dropped to $3.40, down by over 32% this year and by 83% in the last five years. So, do that 10% yield and the cheap valuation make it a good investment? Medical Properties Trust stock […]

A US federal court has ordered Michael Frederick Staryk to pay $547,616 in restitution and a $5,907,720 civil monetary penalty after entering a default judgment in a Commodity Futures Trading Commission options-fraud case. The two amounts total $6,455,336, with the penalty approximately 10.8 times the restitution award. The difference separates the punitive sanction from the […]

The Federal Reserve raised its policy rate on Wednesday and the 30-year Treasury yield went down. Nothing broke. The hike did not lift the curve, it pivoted it: two-year par yields rose seven basis points to 4.74% while the 30-year slipped a basis point to 5.35%, according to the U.S. Treasury daily par yield curve […]