Dividend Investing Weekly Newsletters

Trade War Fuels Fire Under Stable Dividend Plays

May 27, 2019

People love to talk about winning streaks and why not, it’s a fun topic. Leading up to the month of May, the U.S. stock market had been on one of its own, marking a series of new highs from the first of the year. However, the tide went out of the market in a classic […]

Rising Tariffs Could Prick China’s Real Estate Bubble

May 20, 2019

Increased volatility is a clear and present danger to investor sentiment after the trade war tension ratcheted up a few notches this past week due to increased tariffs on both U.S. and Chinese goods. Global markets are still betting that a final deal ultimately will be reached, but there is growing evidence that both sides […]

Heady Call Option Income Flows from High-Tech Stocks

May 13, 2019

The rally has run into some overhead resistance from the escalation of the trade war with China, the S&P is trading at the high end of the price-to-earnings (P/E) range (currently 17X) and we’re heading into the summer months where the market historically has under-performed. At the same time, there is tremendous sales and earnings […]

Uptick in European Growth Sparks Fresh Optimism

May 6, 2019

For most of the month of April, I highlighted the strong technical action for world markets year to date (YTD) when the economic data outside the United States prior to mid-April lacked much to write home about. But for all us who respected the charts, the strong price action in global indexes was simply a […]

Global Markets Bucking Bearish Data – Time to Buy?

April 29, 2019

The latest read on the first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) of 3.2% for the U.S. economy has provided another empirical piece of evidence that the bull market’s prosperity has legs. The notion of a 2019 recession has faded quickly, even in light of some high-profile earnings misses from the likes of Intel Corp. (INTC), 3M […]

Double-Top or Higher-Highs for the S&P 500

April 22, 2019

Heading into the long Easter holiday weekend, the bulls were firmly in control of the current market’s direction. Strong earnings from market bellwether companies like JPMorgan (JPM), CSX Railroad (CSX), Blackrock (BLK), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PepsiCo Inc. (PEP), Union Pacific (UNP), Netflix (NFLX), United Rentals (URI), Blackstone Group L.P. (BX) and American Express (AXP) […]

Energy MLPs Ready to Rally

April 15, 2019

The narrative of a second-half 2019 recovery for the global economy is starting to gain wider-spreading credibility as optimism grows about closure to a U.S.-China trade deal and avoiding a hard-Brexit. Further optimism for investors comes from dovish central bank policy both here and abroad that is keeping rates low amid modest inflation data. Those […]

Time to Bet on Mortgage REITs

April 8, 2019

The first quarter is now in the record books as the stock market has posted its best gains in 16 years. What is not to be believed is that the first week of the second quarter kept up the bullish momentum while heading into a new financial-reporting season in which S&P earnings have been forecast […]

High-Yield Is Making a Fashion Statement

April 1, 2019

For all the negative talk surrounding the future prospects for the economy, the folks working at the high-yield trading desks aren’t listening. Typically, the junk bond market is a harbinger of things to come and is forecasting an economy that is and will stay on cruise control for the foreseeable future. In the chain of […]

American Economy Provides Oasis for Global Investors

March 25, 2019

Markets moved lower Friday following strong weekly gains after it was reported that Europe’s economy is faltering further amid weak manufacturing data and what is looking like a difficult exit for the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU). Major European indices traded in the red after the latest flash Manufacturing PMI readings in Germany […]

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