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From a stock market perspective, the most influential stock market guru and investor – Warren Buffet – has also said that he is once again bullish on equities and his company, Berkshire...
As an investor in the accumulation stage, I tend to focus on companies with yields of at least 3% and expectations of future dividend growth. Most of these companies have a history of consistent...
Is it possible for an investor to be losing money in financial markets this year?
With an incredible amount of bad timing and wrong-headed conviction, you actually could have constructed a...
A comparison of the Dow Jones Industrial Average today to Japan's Nikkei Index leading up to and after its peak in 1989. There are a lot of similarities and some differences. What do they mean?
Dividend Capture strategies are gaining popularity among speculators who donât want to be too exposed to market risk, while also being able to pocket the dividends. My reader Ammar Husami...
The stocks that I selected are representative of four high-yield sectors, where dividend investors typically shop for current income. Furthermore despite their high current yields, the dividend...
Stock screeners allow traders to compile a list of stocks that conform to certain criteria as used in the screening process. Because the results are instant, it is a technique that once used will...
Usually an acquisition makes some sense of some level to someone. The Roche offer to acquire the 44% of Genentech that it doesn't already own makes none at all. Here is why it is illogical....
Over the last several weeks I have alluded to the fact that my stock analysis model was going through a major overhaul. Last week I put put the last piece of the puzzle in and began using the new...
Over the last several weeks, the number of dividend stocks my model identified as a buy has greatly declined. On July 3rd it flagged 14 stocks as potential buys verses only 7 stocks on August 29th....
BP is an international dividend achiever as well as a component of the British FTSE 100 index. It has been increasing its dividends for the past 9 consecutive years. From the end of 1997 up until...