Investing in the bond market has been a tough slog over the last few years. Zero percent policy rates and bond buying by the world’s major central banks has kept yields at some of the lowest levels on record. Investors have long had an aversion to the bond market. Bonds don’t offer the glamour and hope that many crave from their investments. And bonds don’t provide the kind of long-term upside that stocks can. Add today’s ultra-low yields to the investing public’s natural bias against bonds, and the result is a move by some investors to load up on stocks in an effort to boost income. Higher … [Read more...]
Lost Decade for Chinese Stocks
Over the last decade, China has been viewed as the world's economic growth engine. And rightly so if you believe the country's economic statistics. Nominal GDP has more than tripled over the last ten years. How have Chinese stock investors fared over this period? Not so well. Chinese shares have gone almost nowhere since year-end 2006 (12/31/2006 = 100 on chart). Growth ≠ Returns. … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Demand for This Commodity is Booming
Lithium Demand is Booming (WSJ) ECB Buys U.S. Debt to Stimulate Euro-Area Economy??? (WSJ) How to Trump-proof your Portfolio (Financial Times) China Stocks Slide on Default Worries (MarketWatch) Alarm Bells Ringing Over Negative Rates (Financial Times) … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: The War on Cash Escalates
The War on Cash Escalates Insurers Seek Hikes to Cover Obamacare Billionaire Cites Similarities to '08 Crisis Ending America's Slow Growth Tail Spin Best Minds Have No Clue Where Global Economy is Headed … [Read more...]
Fitbit Fad has a Scary Ending for Investors
Fitbit shares have been crushed over the last year. … [Read more...]
Services Economy Still OK
Services sector of the Economy still doing OK. … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Hope is the Strategy for Tesla Investors
Refiners The Last Domino to Fall in Oil Bust (WSJ) Investors Discover Fintech Firms a Feature not a Business (Fortune) High Anxiety: Markets Get Roiled (WSJ) Technology Crashing Relative to the Market (Business Insider) Hope the Strategy for Tesla Investors (WSJ) Will Computers Replace Journalists (Financial Times) Soda Sales Immune to Higher Taxes in Mexico (WSJ) … [Read more...]
The Most Powerful Force in Investing
The most powerful force in investing is compound interest. As Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's long-time partner once said "Understanding the power of compound return and the difficulty getting it is the heart and soul of understanding a lot of things." The examples of compound interest that we see presented most often are those that show its power over long periods of time. Here we illustrate the power of compounding in another way. The chart below shows the gain on a $10,000 investment over a 20-year period using different rates of return. The rates of return are on the horizontal axis … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: An Investment Bubble Made in China
An Investment Bubble Made in China (WSJ) Bitcoin Creator Unmasked (Fortune) Chinese Students Flood U.S. Universities (WSJ) Puerto Rico to Default (Fortune) India's Fuzzy Growth Data (WSJ) Stay in May (WSJ) Wall Street Not Rewarding Earnings Beats (MarketWatch) … [Read more...]
Rule #1 in Investing
Rule #1 in investing is don't lose money and never lose big. The chart below shows the portfolio gain needed to recover from a given loss. The hurdle gets real high the bigger your loss. A 60% loss requires a 150% gain just to get back to even. … [Read more...]
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