I have separated my long-running Investor section from Weighing the Week Ahead. My hope is to highlight ideas for the long-term investor. In last week’s post I introduced the key concepts and showed some of our survey results. For now, and for as long as the pandemic weighs on the market, that is the necessary […]
I have separated the Investor section from Weighing the Week Ahead. Last weekend I described my intention to highlight investment ideas for long-term investors. I can do it better in a separate post, as I hope you will soon see. I am going to include more of my own commentary on each idea. I will […]
Retirees seek reasonable, consistent yield without a threat to the nest egg. For the last three weeks I have revisited a method for doing this, one I first described six years ago. The Quest for Yield (Part 6): Enhancing the Yield from Your Dividend Stocks, written in March 2012 explained the concept. While I have […]
We have a light economic calendar with a focus on housing. Earnings season would normally be the most important market theme. For now, observers are seeing what they want to see in earnings reports. That makes it easier for pundits to take up a favorite topic: What is about to go wrong? There are so […]
There is a light economic calendar with a focus on inflation data. This is timely given the growing fear about rising interest rates. While these reports have been benign in recent years, even a modest uptick could fuel concerns. If the focus remains non-political, pundits will be asking: Do rising interest rates signal the beginning […]