Personal Finance
Investors looking to maximize total investment return in 2018 should plan on buying companies that not only pay significant current dividends but will increase the dividend amount paid out each successive year. “If you want to clobber the market in 2018 — and beyond — then buying companies with accelerating dividends is an absolute must,” […]
Ray Dalio, a billionaire hedge fund manager followed closely on Wall Street, has laid out his case for a recession in the next 12 to 24 months. His core reasoning is that the economy is entering the late stages of an expansion, increasing risk that the Federal Reserve may commit a policy error by hiking […]
Is Bitcoin a hedge against stock market risk, like gold, as some early investors hoped? Or something entirely unrelated to investing, a new, extra-official currency, as its creators seemed to intend? The answer could affect investment decisions valued in hundreds of billion of dollars and directly affect Bitcoin’s future valuation. Part of the appeal of […]
The recent swings in the stock market have taken a heavy toll on investors, particularly those who were betting, some with borrowed money, that volatility would continue to remain low. After years of market stability, investment firms began offering ETFs that allowed investors opportunities to profit from a stable stock market environment. These funds were […]
Bond guru Jeff Gundlach, founder of DoubleLine Capital, not long ago said that the bond bull market would end if yields on the 10-year U.S. Treasury approached 3%. Yields already have crossed the 2.6% level, which Gundlach predicted would be a negative headwind for stocks. Currently, the 10-year is sitting just beneath this level due to […]
Millennials, people under the age of 35, are in the driver’s seat when it comes to speculating on cryptocurrencies and cutting-edge investments such as marijuana stocks. Investment accounts opened initiated by people under the age of 35 catapulted by 72% in 2017, reports TD Ameritrade. “Clearly, the two biggest stories of the quarter were the […]
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has taken new steps to identify and weed out high-risk brokers. Under pressure from both investors and lawmakers, the industry-run regulator has created a dedicated examination unit. The unit already has identified between 100 and 200 rogue reps. This is a significant improvement over previous FINRA security measures, which […]
Are the good times over? That’s the question on the mind of many cryptocurrency hedge fund managers. Bitcoin’s phenomenal thirteenfold rise in 2017 helped these firms provide astronomical returns for their clients. Data from an index of 17 hedge funds reveals an almost 3,000% rise in 2017. By comparison, the average return of the worldwide […]
Global financial analysts are advising enterprising investors to consider investing in burgeoning frontier markets via exchange traded funds (ETFs), bonds and to a lesser degree, mutual funds. Financial analyst David Dali, a strategist for Matthews Asia, said that investors who take strategic advantage of frontier markets right now are primed to profit in the future. […]
Palladium recently traded at a new high of $1,132.50 on Jan. 15. That’s more than double the low price of $473.80 around the same date in 2016. Investment and financial industry analysts now believe that the months-long palladium rally could surge past the value of gold sometime in 2018. The recent gold high was $1,342.50, […]
