A review of the US stock market and the S&P 500. Video Length: 00:05:12
October 10, 2018
The decision whether a company should pay a dividend is a complex one. Dividends can be a major part of a company’s capital allocation strategy. For example, the Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 53 stocks in the S&P 500 that have
“It’s probably early days, but now might be the time to start taking precautions against a 2008 class event in the financial markets. I would suggest it might arrive anytime between now and July 2020. These sorts of things depend
Stocks crushed as investors scramble for the exit. Volatility explodes higher presenting plenty of trading opportunities for patient traders who thrive in these markets. Video Length: 00:14:34
The FANGs led the Nasdaq on the way up and lead again on the way down. Technology shares were hammered close to 5%. The Wall Street Journal reports Quickening Retreat From Tech Sinks Market. U.S. stocks suffered their biggest decline in
There are several well known large cap stocks going ex-dividend next week including the following five dividend stocks: The Gap Inc., Darden Restaurants, Verizon, AT&T and Verizon. Ex-dividend dates are important to dividend investors because one must own a stock on
With so much focus on bitcoin lately, we’ve added a new weekly update that tracks the three largest cryptocurrencies by market share: bitcoin, Ether, and Ripple. According to Wikipedia, a cryptocurrency is “a digital asset designed to work as a medium
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At the beginning of every year, market commentators and analysts give their predictions on where the market will close. Research has shown that most of these forecasts did not perform significantly different than a chance forecast. In other words, similar to a
The BLS released September Producer Price Index numbers this morning. PPI has been gradually accelerating since late 2015/early 2016, but recent months saw PPI begin to slow by its headline measure. The headline PPI decelerated again last month down to
