Showing results for "chris hopkins"
Hopkins gives Texans win over Tennessee Titans, 30-24
HOUSTON - The Houston Texans drafted DeAndre Hopkins to take pressure off star receiver Andre Johnson.
September 15, 2013
Personal Finance: ETFs versus Mutual Funds -- what's the difference?
In 1928, Calvin Coolidge was president, Shirley Temple was born, and Americans were introduced to the first publically available mutual fund, the Massachusetts…
- By Chris Hopkins
Hopkins gives Houston Texans win over Tennessee Titans, 30-24
HOUSTON - Andre Johnson often tells DeAndre Hopkins that the rookie will be better than he is one day.
September 16, 2013
Hopkins: Understand what your investments are costing you
Today we are confronted with a bewildering array of investment options.
- By Chris Hopkins
Allergic reaction to snake venom caused death
Wade Westbrook had experience handling snakes and even had been bitten by a copperhead before, friends say.
- By Kate Belz
Personal Finance: Weak holiday shopping outlook means deals for consumers
Did you notice Christmas promotions sharing the aisles with Halloween candy his year? Welcome to the logical extension of post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales:…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Are tech stocks getting too high?
It seems like only yesterday that we were seeking to rationalize the excessive valuations of tech stocks as the market surged toward its early 2000 highs. Many…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Investors romping in the sandbox
This year's hot investment commodity isn't gold, silver, corn or soybeans. It's sand. Thanks to the bonanza in North American oil and gas production, high qual…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Corker-Warner plan good start for mortgage reform
Last week we considered the need to reform the mortgage market by phasing out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Today we explore a blueprint for eliminating them tho…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Euro rates sink deeper in the hole
It's hard to appreciate a truly extraordinary period in time when we are immersed in it, but this is one of those times.
- By Christopher Hopkins
Hopkins: A primer on closed end funds
Pooled investments like mutual funds and ETFs are convenient vehicles through which investors can attain diversified exposure to various asset classes. But one…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Closed end funds II -- risks and rewards
Last week, we looked at a subset of pooled investment vehicles known as closed end funds. Those funds occupy a narrow space in the panoply of investments avail…
- By Christopher Hopkins
Personal Finance: Antitrust enforcement often counterproductive
Since the end of the recession in 2009, the U.S. economy has grown at a disappointingly tepid rate of around 2 percent per year. The factors conspiring to impe…
- By Christopher Hopkins
Personal Finance: Financial advice for college grads
Congratulations, graduates, you did it. All that hard work has paid off and you are ready to embark on the next phase of your life. As you enter the working wo…
- By Christopher Hopkins
Personal Finance: Thanksgiving in America means business
With the demise of the traditional Turkey Day interruption in the extended holiday shopping season, many of us lament the promotional intrusion into our family…
- By Chris Hopkins
Wall Street 3rd-quarter misery saps Covenant
Shares of Chattanooga area public companies dropped in value the past quarter, driven down with the broader markets by the sluggish economy and fears over Euro…
- By Mike Pare
Keel Family Function at Cherokee Farms
The second annual Keel Family Function is this weekend at Cherokee Farms in LaFayette, Ga.
- By Staff Report
Personal Finance: What is chained CPI in Obama's budget proposal?
Republicans and Democrats are inching toward a more constructive engagement in the battle to defuse the debt bomb. President Obama made a significant contribut…
- By Chris Hopkins
Personal Finance: Will the economy return to normal this year?
The recovery is more than 4 1/2 years old, and up until now has depended upon life support from the government. It has been argued with good evidence that the …
- By Chris Hopkins