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W. P. Carey (WPC - yield 5.90%) W.P. Carey owns a diversified net lease portfolio that consists of 720 properties. The well-balanced portfolio consists of office, warehouse/logistics, industrial and retail properties. The portfolio has 234 tenants that lease over 85 million square feet of space. Unlike many peer triple-net REITs, Carey’s sound...

Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI) gets 55% of its revenue by selling news and information to professionals in the banking industry. The remaining 45% comes from the legal, accounting and scientific research fields. Thomson earned $137 million, or $0.16 a share, in 2013. That’s down sharply from $2.0 billion, or $2.39 a...

People in retirement don’t need to invest conservatively, and young people don’t need to invest aggressively.

Every once in a while, I like to have a talk with one of Cabot’s analysts about their publications.

RPM International (RPM - yield 2.10%) from DirectInvesting.com RPM International (RPM) manufactures specialty paints, protective coatings, roofing membranes, sealants, and adhesives for the industrial and consumer markets worldwide. Its Industrial segment also produces polymer flooring systems, fiberglass-reinforced plastic gratings, fireproofing products, colorants and pigments, fuel additives, wood and lumber treatments, and concrete...

Weatherford International (WFT) Weatherford International (WFT) management indicated that the firm’s planned divestments are on course for completion in the second half of the year and that the onshore rig business would go public in the first quarter of 2015. The company would use the proceeds, along with free cash flow...

Two stocks with low PEG ratios adjusted for dividends are Fortress Investment (FIG) and Noble Corp. (NE).

The talking heads are saying that investors are encouraged by the pace of merger activity. Others are saying it’s because the economy is improving. In other words, they haven’t a clue why the markets are moving up. I think it’s just momentum. People are seeing that markets...

Today, gold hovers around $1,268—about midway between its lows and highs for the year.

A covered call is an options strategy whereby an investor holds a long position in a stock.

How often do you trade your stocks during a year? Do you turn over your portfolio once a year?

According to the latest sentiment survey conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), 28% of respondents were bullish, 28% were bearish while 43% were neutral. ... the highest level of neutrality in more than 10 years. Investors have been essentially neutral for the...

One index that represents what’s happening with the market is the S&P 500.

Last year, the Russell 2000 stock index overshot the performance of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

Iconix Brand (ICON) Chances are you may have never heard of Iconix Brand (ICON). But the company’s broad and growing portfolio of leading brands includes such household names as Candies, London Fog, Sharper Image, and Danskin. Iconix licenses its brands to such major retailers as Wal-Mart, Target, and Kohl’s, helping generate a...

This company develops products for the Pharmaceuticals, Human Vaccines and Animal Health industries. The company’s dividend yield is 3.8%, paid yearly. Based in France, Sanofi (SNY) is a global integrated healthcare company focused on seven growth platforms: Diabetes Solutions, Vaccines, Genzyme, Emerging Markets, Consumer Healthcare, Animal Health and Other Innovative products. We...

Today, I want to speak to a very specific group: those who have 10 years to go before you retire.

As markets are in a volatile state, many investors swerve toward income stocks and the energy sector.

The big problem is that the market has been going up for so long that people forget that it can go down.

Here are four traps for your retirement account and two ways which will help you avoid them.