Consider alternative investments for your intermediate-term goals like short-term bond funds, municipal bond funds or income funds that include dividend-paying stocks in the mix but watch for bonds with long maturities.
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It has happy customers like short-term rental site, Airbnb, and Marketing Labs.
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Especially confusing, says Gazzaley, is that key brain functions, like short-term memory, processing speed, and the capacity to multi-task, decline steadily as we age.
It was more like a short term loan.
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But that seems like a short-term solution to a much larger problem.
But today Iran looks less like a short-term threat than it did a week ago, or a year ago, when the oil bubble began inflating.
For instance, Barclays recommends savvy derivatives trades like swaps and short-term hedging strategies that focus on spreads between bond maturities.
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Until recently the Federal Reserve owned rather safe assets like gold, short-term Treasury bills and the short-term IOUs of commercial banks.
What seemed like a good short-term fix has become a long-term problem.
But Colgate is looking like a better short-term capital appreciation play based on the charts appearing to be in much better shape because the stock has lagged the broader advance.
But so far, short term remedies like the American Recovery Act have not been able to keep the US economy hiring, and growing.
The main hiccup was the volatility surrounding the Cyprus bailout, but typically short term events like this should not have a meaningful impact on the trading business.
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In the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine (i.e. its true value will in the long run be reflected in its stock price).
Does that sound like the thinking of a short-term activist shareholder as Loeb is characterized by some?
The daily chart shows a short-term breakout like that of its benchmark.
If you want to keep it somewhere safe and accessible for emergencies or a short-term goal like a home purchase in the next 5 years, you might want to open it with a bank, credit union, or money market fund.
We have short-term stress hormones like adrenaline, and longer-term hormones like the steroids that we pour out.
Some banks would like to stash the money for short-term business reasons.
The deterioration last week in some of the short-term technical studies like the McClellan Oscillator was consistent with a weakening stock market.
However, we argue that a gold ETF is not always a wise choice, particularly when it is treated as a short-term trade, like a stock.
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Yet smaller opportunities with a much lower risk and commensurately lower payoff, pebbles if you like, are less attractive in the short term but more valuable in the long term.
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Based on technical analysis and charting, the major market indexes like the Dow and Nasdaq are short-term oversold beneath their 50-day moving averages to a degree that almost always brings a rally back up to the moving average.
Steve Shafer, chief investment officer at Covenant Global Investors, counts both JPMorgan and Wells Fargo among his holdings, but says he is less concerned about short-term data points like a single quarter of earnings than he is with sound management and a positive earnings trajectory over a longer period.
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Critics accuse the ECB of failing to provide the sort of short-term stimulus that countries like Germany desperately need.
In the short-term, gold vehicles like the Gold Trust SPDRS ETF (NYSE: GLD) are overbought and due for some selling.
While bold, visionary leadership can yield industry-changers like the Kindle and the iPhone, short-term public market mentality can kill innovation.
While a program like Virgin's offers employees some short-term benefits, it may have less impact on a company's overall effectiveness, he says.
Nor is it certain just what the short-term relief will look like.
The New York Independent System Operator has defined short-term energy storage devices like flywheels and batteries as frequency regulators, allowing them to participate in regulated markets.
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