It remains to be seen whether the market is in the midst of a garden-variety 10% correction or if this is the start of a deeper bear market. But it does seem like this market is being held aloft buy a small handful of large-cap tech stocks: the infamous FAANGs. Let’s play with the numbers a...Read More
Alas, Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) is off to a rough start. I’m squarely in LAST place with a loss of 5%. Between rising bond yields and a rough year for energy stocks in general, EPD has gotten dragged down along with the rest of the MLP sector. But we still have a long way to go...Read More
As we wind down the first quarter, my pick in InvestorPlace’s Best ETFs for 2018 — the iShares Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (DVYE) — is up a respectable, though not spectacular, 5%. At this stager of the game, Dana Blankenhorn is off to a strong start, up 13% in the Market Vectors Semiconductor ETF (SMH). But it’s still...Read More
The following is an excerpt from 7 Top Monthly Dividend Stocks and Funds to Buy, originally published on Kiplinger’s. The mortgage is due every month. So are utility bills, car payments and the membership to the gym that many of us don’t actually use. That’s not a major problem for many people because they get regular...Read More
I joined Peggy Tuck this morning on Straight Talk Money. First on the agenda: We talk about the still simmering trade tensions and what they might mean for the market. We then dig into the Fed and what new Chairman Jerome Powell’s plans for interest makes might be: Up next, we dig into Facebook’s (FB)...Read More
