In the first day of trading after Hurricane Sandy pounded New York, the S&P 500 had its best trading day in seven weeks. I’m not one to assign a lot of significance to a single day’s trading, but I did find it encouraging.  It suggests that the damage left behind was less severe than the...Read More

As I wrote back in August, it can be helpful at times to look over the shoulders of successful investors to see what their highest-conviction investments are.  And during times like these, when the economy is looking wobbly and the potential for a Eurozone meltdown is hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles,...Read More

In case you had any concerns about the safety of Russian stocks, you can now set those fears aside. By Kremlin decree, Russian stocks will now start paying higher dividends. As the Financial Times reported this week, “One of the reasons why Russian companies trade at a discount to their global peers is their historically...Read More

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on “Naughty and Nice”  dividend stocks. In the last article, I gave you five socially-responsible stock picks that you could feel good about owning.  Now, we’re going to go a very different direction.  In this article, I’m going to give you five delightfully naughty dividend-paying stocks to...Read More

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on “Naughty and Nice” dividend stocks. Perhaps I’m some sort of anti-social deviant, but I’ve never been a big fan of socially-responsible investing.  It has always seemed crazy to me to ignore profitable investment opportunities because a company’s product happens to be politically incorrect at that particular...Read More