ThinkstockInvestors love dividends, and this component of investing plays a very important part of the total return through time. Buying stocks that combine solid and growing dividends with a potential for capital…
ThinkstockTypically in a bull market rally, whether it be cyclical or secular, all of the stocks are lifted due to the upward market movement. With the exception of very defensive names like…
Jon OggOne of the biggest complaints for years about Wall St. research was that no firm ever said when to sell. Back in the halcyon days of the late 1980s, and through…
When we started off 2013, most of the Wall St. firms we follow put out their top stock picks for the year. We covered those various lists so our readers could get…
ThinkstockThe great debate over the budget and reducing the gigantic U.S. deficit continues to dominate the network, cable, print and Internet news outlets. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget for the first…
Lee Jackson When the holidays wound down and we started off 2013, all the Wall St. firms started to put out their top stock picks for the year. We covered those various lists so…
ThinkstockEverybody in the business of writing, reporting or talking about stocks and the stock market has highlighted the spectacular run of the housing stocks since the March 2009 low. Every firm on…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsOne natural inclination for investors during bull market runs is to avoid stocks that have been the largest percentage gainers. The logic is that they will be the…
ThinkstockI already have gone on the record that the taxation of deposits in Cyprus is nothing short of theft. Regardless of a bloated banking system that was in shambles, taking depositors’ assets under…
ThinkstockBack in the halcyon technology boom of the late 1990s, the large cap tech stocks that dominate the Nasdaq stock market were all the rage among investors. Personal computer use was skyrocketing,…
ThinkstockAfter spending almost a trillion dollars in stimulus money following the market meltdown and Great Recession that started in 2008, the American taxpayer did not get a whole lot for their money.…
Typically in the investing world, if everybody expects an event, the opposite happens. In March of 2009 after a brutal sell-off had knocked the S&P 500 down almost 60% from its 2007…
For anybody that has missed the big stock market rally, it can be very disheartening to watch as anchors on every business and news channel talk about indices hitting all-time highs day…
ThinkstockMost investors are aware of the fact that the stock market can be a cruel and fickle mistress. What is big and cutting edge one day, especially in the technology world, can…
ThinkstockThe financial sector took a beating during the mortgage and housing market meltdown that threw the nation into recession in 2008. After five years of bailouts and rebuilding, the banking sector has…
