Thursday, February 20, 2020
China-centered Coronavirous outbreak has caused volatility and havoc in the financial and commodity markets. Last Friday’s 600 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) pushed the weekly decline to 733 points. This decline was the worst drop for the U.S. stock market since August 2019, when recession fears gripped investors. At this time, […]
With Good Stocks, Time Is on Your Side Peter Lynch once said, “The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” That’s exactly right. When you own a good stock, time is on your side. You may not realize it each day and each week, but after the […]
Wall Street Loves to Make Predictions. Warren Buffett famously said that forecasts don’t tell you much about the future, but they do tell you a lot about the forecaster. That’s certainly true. Imagine if you had told someone on January 1, 2019, all the raucous headlines we’d see in the coming 12 months. After learning […]
Each year I am asked by the MoneyShow folks to submit two stock picks for the new year. My picks are published on the MoneyShow website and mainstream financial websites, such as Forbes. I put out an aggressive stock pick and a conservative one. Since I am the Dividend Hunter, both stocks will be higher […]
Something remarkable happened on Monday. It wasn’t the action of a politician, an election, or even a Fed official. Instead, this news came from the National Association of Home Builders. The NAHB released its monthly confidence index, and it rose five points in December to 76. So why is this noteworthy? It’s important because that’s […]
Generally, I’m not a big fan of stock screeners. I’ve found that it causes investors to be overly mechanical in their approach. However, if investors use screeners as a first step in the investing process, then I think it can help them achieve their investment objectives. With that in mind, I want to share with […]
In 2017, the Long Island Iced Tea Company came up with a novel way to increase their share price. They came out with a new product? Hardly. The company changed its name to Long Blockchain. Laugh if you must but the shares jumped 200% at the open. Under the old rules, a company had to […]
Last week I was an invited speaker at the Las Vegas MoneyShow and made several presentations concerning income and dividend stock investing. I like the Q&A portion at the end of each talk. I benefit from learning what income focused investors are most interested in. One topic that came up several times was my opinion […]
The need for an ever-increasing amount of data storage is a growth story that appears to have a very long runway. Experts estimate that the “digital universe” will double every two years (that’s a 50-fold increase in a decade). Enterprise IT, cloud computing and services, the Internet of Things, and autonomous vehicles all require larger […]
It has been a challenging start to 2019 for real estate investment trust (REIT) investors. At the start of the year, the REIT indexes zoomed higher. The last few weeks have investors wonder if the party is already over for the year. The financial media is placing blame in many places including trade wars, slowing […]
