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Centaurus Financial® Presents: Q2 2011 ECONOMIC UPDATE

We have just been through a volatile three months, a period where domestic indicators, energy prices and foreign economic bulletins weighed heavily on U.S. consumers, companies and financial markets. Here are some details worth noting. The quarter in brief. For the first time in four quarters, U.S. stocks did not advance. The S&P 500 lost [...]
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THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS! A CLOSER LOOK AT GOLD …

America's got gold fever. There’s no doubt that in recent history, the performance of gold is startling. Across the 2000s, gold gained 278.52% on the COMEX while the S&P 500 lost 24.10%. So given these numbers, why doesn’t everyone put every dollar they have into gold? Recent price returns don’t tell the whole story.
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Centaurus Financial® Presents: Q4 2010 ECONOMIC UPDATE

THE QUARTER IN BRIEF The consumer was the hero of the fourth quarter. In the last three months (and especially in the last six weeks), consumers opened their wallets and pocketbooks and grew more confident about the state of the economy. In Washington, the President and Congress collaborated to devise short-term fixes for America’s major [...]
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Centaurus Financial Offers Guidance on Social Media Usage by Registered Representative

It’s no secret that social media websites, defined as sites that are based on user participation and user-generated content (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.) have exploded in popularity. Recent research shows that, “two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit a social network or blogging site and the sector now accounts for almost 10% of all [...]
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