Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Hold Dividend Payers To Weather Stock Market Volatility / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: WMA
So far in 2018, equities have swung wildly, leaving market participants with whiplash. Consider that the S&P 500 rose +7.5% in January, fell -11.5% in early February, jumped back +10.5% in March, fell back -8.2% at the end of March, rallied +5.4% in early April only to give back -3.7% since last week. Phew! Investors who have relied on the “trend is your friend” investment strategy have gotten absolutely crushed so far this year. Those who have made money in 2018 are the algorithmic and high-frequency traders, as well as the courageous (and lucky) day traders willing to stand in front of apparent run-away moves.
For most of us, trying to “trade” a volatile market, guessing which way a squiggly line will turn, is most often a losing proposition. Instead of buying rallies on optimism and selling after the market drops on fear -- a game that won’t last long no matter what the size of your portfolio – a much better strategy for most investors in a volatile market is patience. Hold high quality companies which pay a regular dividend (preferably with a high dividend yield), don’t fret about market swings, and patiently collect your dividend payments.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Dividend Stocks: How to Soften the Bear's Short-Term Bite / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
For investors, May started out as a month of great promise. On May 1, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 65.69 points, closing at 13,279.
Since then, however, that promise has turned to plummet.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
Make a Fortune in Stocks... Even If the Market Goes Nowhere / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: DailyWealth
Dan Ferris writes: Now more than ever before, investors must focus on dividends.
It's the ONLY way you're going to safely, steadily grow wealth in the stock market in the coming years.
Thursday, July 01, 2010
The Only Stocks I’d Own Right Now / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Graham_Summers
Because I regularly receive emails from investors who need to remain invested in stocks to the long-side, I thought today we’re discuss which companies to own and why.
Investing has never been easy, but the last 15 years have been some of the toughest investors have ever faced, largely due to the fact that the US stock market has either been in a bubble or post-bubble Crash for most of that time.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Eurozone Debt Contagion Telling Us It’s Time to Buy Dividend Stocks, REITS and MLPs / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Jon D. Markman writes: With the escalating Eurozone-debt-contagion fears of recent weeks, a significant shift is taking place in the global stock-and-bond markets.
The powerful bull cycle that grew out of the early March 2009 market lows - the quickest and strongest stock-market rebound of the past 50 years - has been losing some of its youthful verve as it matures. That means we can expect the pace of gains to moderate as asset classes (stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities) begin to differentiate themselves.
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Friday, December 04, 2009
Stock Market Sectors and Bonds for Higher Investment Income Yields / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Mike_Larson
The Federal Reserve’s policy of pegging interest rates to the floor is having a slew of consequences. It’s driving down the dollar. It’s helping fuel new asset bubbles. It’s leading to the misallocation of economic resources.
And perhaps most importantly for you, it’s punishing savers. By cutting the federal funds rate to a range of zero percent to 0.25 percent, the Fed has forced rates on short-term Treasuries, short-term certificates of deposit, and money market accounts into the gutter. You can’t earn squat on these safe, cash-like investments.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Yields in Stocks Versus Treasuries are Abnormally High / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: John_Handbury
The “yield” from stocks is simply the amount earned by the stock divided by the price that the stock trades at. So the “yield” on the S&P500 is the inverse of the P/E ratio, in percent.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Stock Market As Time Machine / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: David_Haas
I am sure very few people look at it this way but, in reality, the stock market is actually used by most investors as a means of “cheating time” rather than simply as a means of making money. Please read on and allow me to explain.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Stock Market Investing Dividend Yields Vs Bond Yields Analysis / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: John_Mauldin
This week I have a very special Outside the Box for you. Peter Bernstein is recognized as one of the more brilliant and insightful analysts of our times. At 89, he has been writing prescient material longer than most of us "young guys" (I am 59, and hope I am still writing at 89, or even able to write!) have been even marginally in the markets. His Economics and Portfolio Strategy Letter is read by the true cognoscenti of the investment world. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Lessons for High Yield Stock Market Investments 2008 / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Roger_Conrad
There's still one trading day left in 2007. But for income investors, the key lessons from what was quite a tumultuous year are already in focus, as is how we can use them for a prosperous 2008. Once again, diversification paid off in spades. Some dividend-paying investments such as utility stocks were huge winners. More economy-sensitive fare like financial's and most real estate investment trusts were losers. But a balanced portfolio of a wide range of high-quality income-payers held its own, generating steady income with low overall volatility of principal.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Hedging Your Income Stocks Portfolio Against Credit and Inflation Risks / Stock-Markets / Dividends
By: Roger_Conrad
Income investments come in all shapes and sizes. But all have one thing in common as far as we're concerned: We've got to buy and hold ‘em to get the most out of them. Part of that is axiomatic. You can't collect the distributions unless you stick around for them to be paid. Individual bonds are the exception because they accrue interest as long as you hold them. But as far as stocks, Canadian trusts, limited partnerships, income-paying funds, preferred stocks or anything else goes, you've got be in there on the ex-dividend dates or you won't get paid.
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