As a longtime follower of Amy Calistri’s Daily Paycheck and Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing, I am well aware of the importance of dividend yield and reinvestment as the key to a successful retirement plan.#-ad_banner-#… Read More
Analyst Articles
A rising tide doesn’t always lift all boats. The major stock indexes are up 10% or more this year, but as I recently noted, it has been a brutal few months for commodities. But at the time, I… Read More
“Rich guys have all the fun,” said my friend after reading several hedge fund prospectuses. He added that he would love to diversify his stock portfolio with alternative investments, but the… Read More
Update — The “Stay in May” Investment Strategy
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I have a friend who thought it would be a great idea to buy sports memorabilia as an investment. The stock market was a roller coaster, and he had had enough. Read More
3 Tech Stocks With Growing Short Interest
It was late October 2008, and we were in the midst of one of the worst bear markets of all time. Short-biased traders were making a killing, but most of us bulls were getting hit daily. As a professional proprietary trader, my software… Read More
Would you ever consider putting your hard-earned investment dollars in a place like Nigeria or Kenya? It’s a question that strikes at the heart of an investor’s risk tolerance. But how you answer it may be a key… Read More
The Best MLP You’ve Never Heard Of
You would think a master limited partnership (MLP) that has outperformed its industry peers by 88% and the Nasdaq by 34% in the past five years — while yielding an average of 8.8% — would be well-known to… Read More
John Paulson is one of the most famous and successful hedge-fund managers of all time. He shot to stardom in 2007 after The Wall Street Journal revealed his firm had scored a jaw-dropping $15 billion profit from… Read More
China doesn’t want your manufacturing dollars anymore. It’s set out on a five-year plan to shift its economy away from an export model to one based on consumption. That’s good — because the business world may not want China anymore, either. Read More