According to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, the most important thing to investors these days is climate change. He has started addressing this by getting out of coal companies. BlackRock’s Larry Fink wants to make the world’s largest fund company more “socially responsible,” and has taken the first step by announcing that the firm will no […]
The first month of the year isn’t even half over, and Tesla stock is already up by 25%. It has more than doubled over the last 3 months. How much higher could this stock go? Tesla serves as an excellent example of how it pays to ride a stock while it’s hot. Tesla has been […]
Unlike some big growth companies, Apple stock actually pays dividends, although the yield on this is now down to about 1%. Apple has wisely focused more on stock buybacks. There remains a big debate out there about whether companies should favor dividends or share buybacks. The fact that so many people favor dividends in the […]
The bull market marches on, but we’re seeing it being led by a small number of stocks. This means that it’s all the more important to focus on the strong and avoid the weak. We had a banner year for stocks in 2019, but it was a year in which the banner was certainly long […]
As we prepare for the new advisory regulations set to be implemented this coming June, requiring advisors to pursue the best interests of clients, we’re still far away from this ideal. In an effort to reduce conflict of interest when obtaining investment advice, the Securities and Exchange Commission is finally ready to enact what they […]
If we want to go with a stock that lags over ones that don’t, including the index itself, we should need some very good reasons to do it. Coke does have its time and its place. The news on Coca-Cola stock is that the Street sees more upside for it in 2020. It’s hard to […]
With the potential for conflict between Iran and the United States at hand, while we should not overestimate the risk to stocks, some are advising that we hedge our bets. Stock markets don’t like conflict, and especially do not like ones that risk putting up the price of oil considerably. While President Trump certainly raised […]
Bond funds have had a big target on their back after their peak last summer. Bonds had a great first 8 months of 2019, and the outlook has changed, but not for Ned Davis. It was no secret that after bonds peaked last August that we were in for a correction. With stocks, you need […]
When it comes to designing a stock picking strategy, we tend to make things a lot more complicated than we need to. We can do well just by using a couple of basic principles. It is no wonder why so many investors throw up their hands when it comes to picking their own stocks. While […]
A lot of investors are intrigued by the Dogs of the Dow strategy, which goes with the top 10 dividend yielding Dow stocks and beats the market. This doesn’t mean it’s that great though. Looking to beat the overall market is a goal of a whole lot of investors, including the great majority of those […]