The recent stocks rally may be drawing to a close as Donald Trump’s trade policies take shape. Rodrigo Campos reports on the new administration’s plans that could jeopardize stock gains. If news of rising interest rates worries you as a bond holder, consider the benefits you can gain from the right re-investment. Hartford Funds describes how to prepare your strategy. With website hackings on the rise,  make a New Year’s resolution to protect your digital life. Jonah Engel Bromwich takes you through seven easy steps to help secure your data online.

Stocks Could Suffer As Trump Trade Policy Takes Shape–  The year-end stocks rally on the heels of the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president was built on expectations of reduced regulations, big tax cuts and a large fiscal stimulus.  Now signs are emerging from the Trump camp that harsher trade policies that could jeopardize the honeymoon are likely in the offing. Investors would be well advised to give those prospects more weight when gauging how much further an already pricey market has to run. Read more…

How A Rate Rise Reminds Us Why We Invest In Fixed Income– Over time, as bonds mature and if they are reinvested at higher interest rates, their ability to generate income can increase. Moreover, the bonds’ interest payments could also be reinvested at higher rates. Because of this, if rates rise steadily and modestly over time, investors may be better off than if rates had remained at previously low levels. Read more…

Protecting Your Digital Life In 7 Easy Steps– There are more reasons than ever to understand how to protect your personal information.  Major website hackings seem ever more frequent.  In a recent Medium post, Quincy Larson, the founder of Free Code Camp, an open-source community for learning to code, detailed the reasons it might be useful for people to make their personal data more difficult for attackers to obtain. Read more…

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