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Dividend Seekers Dip Into DRIPs
If the global financial crisis has taught investors one thing, it’s thatnow is not the time to gamble with your money or your prosperity.
More companies have been bought, bailed out or bankrupted since this financial crisis began than most of us have seen in our lifetimes. And even as Wall Street’s dominoes keep falling, no one can be sure if the worst is over.
From here on – recession or not – targeting dividend stocks is one of the few strategies that will deliver income safely and efficiently.
In theory, dividends should prop up an investor’s portfolio during uncertain periods,…
13Feb2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedFixed Income Investing: The “Secret Alternative” to Equity Indexed Annuities
For many investors, the concept of an equity indexed annuity (EIA for short) – which establishes a guaranteed minimum rate of return, and the ability to capture the upside of the next bull market with no risk of loss – is proving irresistible. That’s especially true at a time when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is still down nearly 45% from its 2007 high of 157.52 and new U.S. President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan has yet to be finalized.
But at the risk of receiving more than a few sharp emails from industry professionals who sell EIAs, let me tell…
3Feb2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | ContinuedFive Emerging Markets ETFs for 2009
If you’re an emerging-markets investor, and you happened to peruse the study that the Institute for International Finance released this week, you must’ve experienced alarm – if not panic. The IIF expects the inflow of private funds into these markets to plunge to only $165 billion this year – an amount that’s just 18% of the $929 billion that flowed into these very same markets in 2007.
For investors, the message is clear: We’d better concentrate on those emerging markets whose inhabitants have hefty piggybanks of their own.
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Yield Spread Schizophrenia
Amid all the panic and gloom of the holiday season there’s actually some news out there that’s worth looking at. No, not the next dip in the automaker-fed tango, nor the punch-it-up, self-absorbed gab surrounding the Madoff blow-up. We couldn’t give a puckered cherry about either.
The real news these days is happening under the radar, in the bond market, where peculiar pressures are sending confusing messages to traders and investors alike.
Powerful Fund Flows To Treasuries
It’s no secret that the global flight to quality that took place over the last several months landed hundreds of billions of new dollars in the…
23Dec2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | ContinuedASININE FOOL’S HOGWASH OF THE YEAR AWARD
I know it’s tough on all your soft, little tummies to hear this, but I’m going to say it anyway: I’m tired of hearing about all the bad economic news; I’m sick of your emails and your doubts, and I don’t want to know the excuse-making, and the quoting of some of the stupidest analysts ever to open their mouths, and I have to get this off my chest before I blow a gasket.
You are losing money. That’s the bottom line here. You have lost money, and you will continue to lose money until you block out all the noise…
3Dec2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | ContinuedGold Holders Beware!
The worst possible news for gold hit this week when the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed piece touting the metal’s virtues. Famed equity strategist, Christopher Wood, in a piece entitled “The Fed is out of Ammunition” concluded by stating the following:
“…the present crisis in the West will ultimately end up discrediting mechanical monetarism — and with it the fiat paper-money system in general — as the U.S. paper-dollar standard, in place since Richard Nixon broke the link with gold in 1971, finally disintegrates.
“The catalyst will be foreign creditors fleeing the dollar for gold. That will in turn lead to global…
26Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Patient is Etherized: Consume the Preferred Organ
You know something’s up when the market keeps rising in the face of pitiful economic and corporate earnings news. That’s precisely what happened last week when consumer confidence was smashed, GDP shrunk and yet the Dow charged ahead nearly 15%.
Some might call it a bull market. Others would say that was heresy: “What, with the dollar on its way to becoming worthless? How dare you speak of a bull market!”
And yet that’s exactly what it is.
On the 10th of October, when the Dow Industrials fell briefly below the 8000 level and the panic was general, 93% of all stocks…
5Nov2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | ContinuedBeware The Dividend Trap: Here’s The Most Important Number You Should Consider
On July 7, 2008, the S&P 500 crossed the threshold into bear market territory, having slid 20% from its high on October 9, 2007.
Today the S&P is trading at 935 – a 40% drop from its high of 1,565.15. If you take the 14 bear markets since the Great Depression, the average decline was 38%. At the low on October 28, the decline was 45.5%.
So are we at the bottom? Perhaps. But consider this…
The average duration of these bear markets was 18.4 months. Given that we’re in the 13th month now, that puts us relatively close to the end, right?
Not…
5Nov2008 | Smart Profits Report | Comments Off | ContinuedInvesting In Dividend-Paying Stocks: A Strong Buy Since 1935
Fear and greed dominate the stock market. While they’re always prevalent, they become magnified in times of great stress – like now. Smart investors know better than to base their investment decisions on emotions like these.
When it comes to investing, the ability to play solid defense can ease you through turbulent times much better than most ordinary investors.
And the concept here is simple: Defensive investing means having some strong, dividend-paying stocks in your portfolio. Forget running to cash as a “last resort” because of negative market performance.
Instead, it’s better to look for long-term drivers – like earnings growth, cash and the…
31Oct2008 | Investment U | Comments Off | ContinuedThese Dividend Stocks Keep On Giving… Even As The Market Keeps Falling
There are several interesting correlations between sports and investing.
One of the truest is also one of the most fundamental rules: If you want to be successful, it starts with playing solid defense.
Sadly, this is a concept lost on my favorite English soccer team, Everton, who’ve shipped a league-high 18 goals in just eight games this season. It’s also lost on the Denver Broncos, whose defense has more holes than the Old Course at St. Andrews and who got walloped 41-7 by New England on Monday night.
When it comes to investing, the ability to play solid defense can ease you through…
23Oct2008 | Smart Profits Report | Comments Off | Continued
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