When searching for a financial advisor this is one box that absolutely needs to be checked. Glenn Ruffenach explains at The Wall Street Journal: Fiduciaries matter. Along the same line…what kind of adviser were you using, and what kind of advice were you getting, in the years prior to the two recessions noted above? Was your adviser, and your nest egg, prepared for the possibility of a downturn? The point: If you work with a financial adviser, work only with a fiduciary, a person who must place your interests ahead of their own and disclose any conflicts of interest. That’s one of the best … [Read more...]
Yes the U.S. Tax Overhaul Was a Success
You can see on the charts of employment and earnings that the Trump tax reform was a success. Richard Rubin and Theo Francis report in The Wall Street Journal: Employment and wages rose. If companies were restrained in their capital investment, there’s little question that the job market improved, particularly for those of prime working age, driven at least in part by greater consumer spending. Read more here. Originally posted on Your Survival Guy. … [Read more...]
If it Walks like a Duck…
In an October speech after the Fed decided to start expanding its balance sheet once again under the auspices of fixing problems in the repo market, Fed Chair Powell said, I want to emphasize that growth of our balance sheet for reserve management purposes should in no way be confused with the large-scale asset purchase programs that we deployed after the financial crisis. Neither the recent technical issues nor the purchases of Treasury bills we are contemplating to resolve them should materially affect the stance of monetary policy, to which I now turn. During the Q&A session following … [Read more...]
The Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
For investors looking for high-yielding dividend stocks to buy, the highest dividend payers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a common starting point. Below is a list of the 10 highest yielding Dow stocks. Today, the average yield of the 10 highest-yielding Dow Jones Industrial Averages stocks is 3.92%. You can see their individual yields in the table below. Click the company name for more information on each stock. To view the entire list of Dow stocks ranked by yield, click here. Highest Yielding Dow Jones Industrial Average Stocks Company NameDividend YieldDow … [Read more...]
The Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks
If you are on the hunt for yield, the top 10 highest yielding S&P 500 stocks is a tempting place to look for new ideas. Compared to the less than 2% yield offered by investing in an S&P 500 index fund, the average yield of the highest 10 dividend-paying S&P 500 stocks is over 7%. The list below includes the 10 highest yielding S&P 500 stocks along with their indicated dividend yield. Click the company name for more information on each stock. Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks Company Name Yield Macy’s (M) 9.1% Iron Mountain … [Read more...]
Did You Get AirPods for Christmas?
At the turn of the century, the most popular Christmas gifts among America’s young teens were Pokemon playing cards and merchandise. Now, 20 years later, the hottest gift for Christmas is Apple’s AirPods. The pro version of the small wireless headphones cost $249 (before taxes). Shortly after the kids opened their gifts on Christmas 1999, I was writing about a new technology I thought would be significant in the coming years: Bluetooth. Through inference reading and analysis, I had determined that Bluetooth could be a major innovation in technology. As it turns out, it is the very … [Read more...]
Guess Which States Americans are Moving To
Every year United Van Lines performs its National Movers Study, analyzing where people are moving to, and where they're coming from, to get a picture of the trends for each state. This year, like last year, Vermont won the highest percentage of inbound traffic. Vermont Business Magazine was happy to announce this, writing "Vermont is the only state to have achieved greater than a 70 percent in-bound rate, which it has done the last two years (74.3% in 2019 and 72.7% in 2018)." You can see on the map below that Americans mostly moved out of states with high taxation (California, NY, … [Read more...]
How Early Markets Reacted to the U.S. Airstrike that Killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani
Yesterday, a U.S. airstrike killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, leader of the foreign wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. News of the strike and the general's death sent safe-haven asset prices higher as investors priced in greater risk in the Middle East. Assets such as gold and the 10-year U.S. Treasury note saw their prices rise as investor sentiment weakened. Gold was up 1.4% while the 10-year was at 1.827% Friday morning from 1.880% on Thursday (a drop in yield reflects an increase in price), while DJIA futures were down 226 pts pre-open. Is this a New Year’s prediction … [Read more...]
Young Research’s Retirement Compounders: Helping You Achieve Investment Success with Comfort
Young Research’s Retirement Compounders were up an impressive 28% in 2019. The Dow was up 25.3% and the MSCI All-Country World Index (ACWI), Net was up 26.6%. The RCs is a global portfolio, as is the ACWI index. Achieving Investment Success with Comfort is the Goal While it is a bonus for the RCs to be up more than the MSCI ACWI, it isn’t the goal of the strategy. The goal of the RCs is to help investors like you achieve investment success with comfort. Comfort doesn’t come from having a higher return than a hypothetical index of stocks selected on the basis of size. Achieving … [Read more...]
The Scary Japanese Preview for American Pension Funds
Japan's economy has been in trouble for a long time. Low, or no, growth for decades, and a demographic time-bomb that is about to go off, are two of the many problems Japan faces. Japan simply can't afford to pay its retirees what they'll need to survive, so the country's Financial Services Agency is recommending that retirees save more on their own. Akane Otani explains in The Wall Street Journal: Japan already is feeling the pinch: The national pension fund hasn’t grown rapidly enough to keep up with a rapid rise in the elderly population. As a result, the country’s Financial Services … [Read more...]
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