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4 Things Baby Boomers Should Focus On After The Fed Stimulus Ends
As the “easy money” era runs its course, money management doesn’t have to be difficult. A look at what’s next. From low rates to where? There was a time when retirement planning was straightforward. It went something like this: invest some money in stocks for growth, and buy bonds with the rest. After all, bond prices…
Read MoreHow Kylie Jenner’s Inflated Assets Helped Destroy $7 Billion In COTY Capital
Cosmetics sales have cratered but the real story is how fake numbers fooled the experts enough to hand over real cash for an illusion. When venerable cosmetics giant Coty paid $600 million cash last year to buy into Kylie Jenner’s upstart lipstick brand, the hype should have triggered alarms on Wall Street. The smart money…
Read MoreGoldman Sachs Believes Stock Market Will Drop by 18%
(Market Review) Pointing to several current issues that by themselves would normally weigh on stocks significantly, Goldman sees us giving back 18% of recent stock market gains over the next 3 months. The moment stocks started to rebound from the 35% nosedive caused by the coronavirus outbreak and its economic response, pundits started to line…
Read MoreThink Twice Before You Invest in a Private-Equity Fund
Have individual investors missed out by not having access to private equity? In weeks like these , when publicly traded stocks are getting clobbered, it might seem so. We’re about to find out the answer, courtesy of Vanguard Group’s recent decision to create a private-equity fund. Though the fund initially will be available only to institutions such as…
Read MoreWho Pays When 45 Big Stocks Like Disney Cut Dividends? You Do
Disney (DIS) is the latest S&P 500 company to suspend or cut its dividend to save cash amid the coronavirus stock market crash. And the cost is starting to add up — for you. S&P 500 companies cut 15 dividends and suspended another 29 this year, says Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Assuming the suspensions…
Read MoreWarren Buffett isn’t buying but says one stock market bet still makes sense.
Key Points Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has long said that owning an S&P 500 stock market index fund is the best bet long-term investors can make. Even as Covid-19 makes the billionaire concerned about stocks, including the airlines he sold, as well as the extreme nature of Fed policy needed, Buffett still…
Read MoreA Hidden Stock Disaster Lurks In Many Portfolios (Maybe Yours?)
Don’t laugh at the poor souls who watched S&P 500 energy stocks crash 40% this year. You might be one of them — and not even know it. If you chased dividends, as many S&P 500 investors have for years, you likely own more energy than you think. And, if you’re tilted to value-priced stocks, like many…
Read MoreFed Sticks To Coronavirus Plan: Zero Rates And QE
The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it will anchor its benchmark interest rate near zero for a year and perhaps much longer. The meeting statement also affirmed the Fed’s stance of unlimited quantitative-easing asset buys. Fed chief Jerome Powell’s press conference did nothing to spoil the mood on Wall Street as the Dow Jones surged to…
Read MoreDon’t Buy & Hold Leveraged ETFs
by Lara Crigger Since I wrote “Why These Leveraged Energy ETPs Tanked” last week, I’ve had several readers reach out to me about the funds I mentioned in the story, wondering if now is the right time to snatch these ETFs up on the cheap and hold them until they once again go sky-high. Indeed,…
Read MoreCommon-sense investing insights we forget during stock-market panics
Many people seem to invest rationally, until the going gets tough. Then we often throw our reasoning out the window while making a mad dash for the exits. It shouldn’t be like that. Here are some common-sense reminders that are worth heeding during volatile stretches in the stock market like now, with coronavirus anxiety seemingly everywhere.…
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