Dividend Investing Weekly Newsletters
Will the Bull Market Stand the Test of New Taxes?
The old saying that “the only two things we can be certain of in life are death and taxes” came to light this past weekend when the G7 nations passed a resolution to set a global corporate minimum tax rate of 15%. The G20 nations will meet in July to weigh in on their support […]
Legacy Blue Chip Tech Stocks Marching Quietly Ahead
There isn’t a day that goes by when viewers of financial media channels and outlets don’t get a real-time update on Cathie Wood’s ARKK Fund stocks, or what Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) is trading at in the past hour. Financial pundits love talking up online gambling stocks, pot stocks, cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), cybersecurity stocks, electric […]
Cyber Attacks Hold Black Swan Risk
America’s energy sector has shown once again how vulnerable it is to natural and manmade events following the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline that was resolved with a $5 million ransomware payoff in difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency. The incident underscored the immense pressure faced by the Georgia-based operator to get gasoline and jet fuel flowing again to […]
U.S. Greenback Testing Key Support
Not much attention has been given to the rather sudden pullback in the dollar index (DXY) this past week. This movement saw the world’s reserve currency shed 3%, which is large in the world of sovereign monies in the developed world. It has been long known that currency prices are moved by many factors, including supply […]
Bulls Betting on Corporate Tax Compromise
With the month of May already getting plenty of scrutiny as to whether investors should “sell and go away,” it seems pretty clear to me, based on how well a number of fluid factors are playing out, that the S&P is ripe for advancing another 10% higher from its current level of 4,200. Sure, a […]
Gold Mining Stocks Breakout From Long Downtrend
This past week, the financial media was ripe with one guru after another calling for the market to correct to the tune of anywhere from 5-20%, citing peak earnings comparisons, rising inflation data and the inevitability of the Fed walking back its stance of no rate hikes until 2023. To the naysayer’s credit, recent economic […]
Hot Inflation Data Fails to Move Bond Yields Higher
Something very disruptive occurred in the bond market this past week and the smartest minds in the fixed income markets are scurrying to explain the anomaly that played out in one of the most counter-intuitive moves seen in recent months. After the 10-year Treasury note yield traded from 1.00% on Jan. 28 up to 1.75% […]
Global Minimum Tax Increase Shows a Two-Edged Sword
One of the hotter topics within the wider discussion of the Biden administration’s future tax policy is how to generate more taxes from revenues corporations produce outside the United States. The Trump administration led this movement as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced several new rules for taxing the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals, […]
Many Reopening Stocks Fully Priced
The most beaten-up stocks from the early days of the pandemic were the travel and leisure sectors, where shares of hotel, casino, restaurant, airline, cruise line and live venue operators endured the biggest percentage hits, hands down. One year and one month later, many of these have not only rallied back to their pre-pandemic levels, […]
Buy Chip Stocks on Any and All Dips
Heavy sector rotation has defined the market landscape for the past several weeks. Banking, machinery, materials, chemicals, oil and steel stocks have rallied strongly and reignited sentiment that just maybe this isn’t a one-off rally or bull trap that fades, as has been the case for old economy stocks in years past. Because investors have […]
