NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 19: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as … [+] the Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell holds a news conference on Decem...
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How To Make Blue Chips Pay You 6% To 7%
Book with page about preferred stock. Trading concept. Getty “America’s retirement fund” is looking awfully shaky. Income investors should consider replacing the over-owned S&P 500 index fund with...
Here Are The Biggest Losing Stocks In The Market’s Worst Month Since March 2020
Topline The stock market is having one of the worst starts to a year ever—with big names like Moderna and Netflix leading declines—as many of the pandemic-era’s top stocks continue to fall out of favo...
A Typical Correction Or The Start Of A Bear Market?
After an outstanding performance in 2022, U.S. stocks have started the year in a corrective phase. The Nasdaq has already fallen more than a typical correction and at its low this past week was nearin...
GDP Surged But Americans Are Struggling With Inflation—Record 79% Say It Will Get Worse
Topline Despite solid economic growth, a record number of Americans predict higher inflation, according to a … [+] new Gallup poll. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Key Facts The U.S. economy grew 6.9% i...
3 Smart “Buy The Dip” Funds Yielding 8.7%
silhouette form of bear on financial stock market graph represent stock market crash or down trend … [+] investment getty This stock market selloff has gone way too far—and it’s pumped up the di...
Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero
Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...
Break The Retirement Mold With These 5 Ultra-High Yielders
Rearview shot of a senior couple out on a road trip on a sunny day getty “Buy and hope” investing has never been more hopeless. With bond yields doing a “moonshot” to 1.8%, they are now looking down a...
Sell Short Monster Beverage And Intel
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Getty Images This is post options expiration week (OPEX). Such weeks have not been very bullish in the past. The 27th is likely to be a short-term low, likely the l...
Why The S&P 500 Is A Useless Benchmark For Actively Traded Funds
One of the most important elements of running or investing in a hedge fund or other actively traded fund is to establish a benchmark. Benchmarks enable fund managers to show how they are doing against...
The Good And Bad: Hillenbrand & NeoGenomics
Blue double exposure of money coins stacking with bar graph for financial and investment business … [+] concept. getty Recap From December’s Picks The Most Attractive Stocks (+2.2%) underperform...
Where The Street Is Too High & Who Should Miss
Traders work during the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on February 3, 2020 at … [+] Wall Street in New York City. – Wall Street stocks rose early Monday, bouncing after...
Analyzing Colgate-Palmolive’s Dividend Growth Potential
SAN FRANCISCO – DECEMBER 7: Packages of Colgate toothpaste are seen on display at Tower Market … [+] December 7, 2004 in San Francisco, California. Colgate-Palmolive Co. announced on Decem...
Cathie Wood’s Rollercoaster Performance Offers A Familiar Lesson About Volatility
Source: Getty getty Volatility is a two way street. It can be an investor’s friend or foe, depending on the direction. Cathie Wood of ARK Invest has the type of investment track record to demonstrate ...
The 4 Lowest P/E Stocks Among The Dow 30 Components
Missing puzzle piece, value and price getty With the Walt Disney Company DIS now trading with a price-earnings ratio at 143 and with Salesforce’s CRM p/e up there at 127, what’s the p/e for the Dow Jo...
Bitcoin Tanked After the Fed Minutes Were Released. Here’s Why.
Text size Proponents of Bitcoin argue that its limited supply should make it an inflation-proof asset akin to gold. Dreamstime Bitcoin slid sharply after the Federal Reserve released minutes of its De...
Stocks Plunge After Fed Minutes Show Central Bank Could Remove More Stimulus
Topline The stock market tanked on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting showed that the central bank could become more aggressive about removing stimulus and reducing...
Energy Was The Top-Performing Sector In 2021
The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, … [+] Monday, April 23, 2018. ExxonMobil was the top performing integrated supermajor in 2021. (...