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Investors love dividend stocks—they pay you regularly just for holding them, they’re less volatile than other stocks, and over time, they actually deliver higher returns too. Investing in dividend stocks isn’t hard, but it is a little different from growth or value investing, or other strategies based purely on capital appreciation. Following rules designed to maximize capital appreciation can actually hurt your overall returns when buying and selling dividend stocks.
Having just returned from vacation, I’m thinking of the millions of baby-boomers who are spending more and more money on leisure travel, particularly on cruises, an industry that is dominated by a few big players
Markets are used to all kinds of stressful events, and for the past year or so have taken the Greek debt crisis pretty much in stride. Up through last week, what we saw in the market was an unemotional averaging out of all investors’ estimates of the probability of a Greek default and the likely fallout (including Greece’s exit from the Eurozone).
In this week’s Stock Market Video, Mike Cintolo takes a cautious short-term view of the market, especially with so many Greece-related uncertainties floating around.
Believe it or not, millennials have now surpassed Baby Boomers as America’s most populous living generation. Many of those millennials are starting families - and that’s good news for the baby market.
There’s nothing like a genuinely horrible day to get the attention of equity investors. Financial websites and online brokerage accounts must have registered a spike in visitors this morning as the investors who suffered through Monday’s storm tried to figure out which way the market’s winds might blow on Tuesday.
As good as markets are at rational discounting in the face of a crisis, they are definitely not good at handling two crises at once. So on top of the Greek debt crisis, when the Chinese stock market began to implode last week the result was extreme.
It’s a critical time for Greece, its countrymen, the nations that hold its debt and its investors. The big question is: Will Greece default on its 1.5 billion euro debt payments that are due tomorrow on the 322 billion euros that it owes to other countries?
On June 18, I received an email from a subscriber to Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report, the investment advisory for which I’m Chief Analyst. Here’s what I wrote back to my subscriber, slightly edited.