I am adding to positions that I have added to for nearly five decades. I am focusing on three themes: Inflation Energy Rising dividends. The way things stand today, my intention is to proceed deliberately/methodically through the months of April and May. I will also give blue-chip corporate fixed income equal attention. I expect: Dividend […]
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I’m a Buyer of Corporate Bonds
Dan Weil writes at The Wall Street Journal: The economic turmoil sparked by the coronavirus has brought on the possibility of negative interest rates. But negative rates don’t necessarily mean negative results for bond-fund investors. Rates going below zero mean that bond yields will shrink—and the dividends over the life of the bond plus the […]
Coronavirus is a Wake Up Call for the Irresponsible, Here’s How to Regain Control
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXVII You’ve told some heroic stories about your loved ones on the front lines and your children who are doctors and nurses working 19-20 hours days. Some of you who work in hospitals now are telling me it’s a war zone, especially those of you in New York. Thank you. […]
My Investing Focus: Energy, Inflation, Dividends, Corporate Bonds
In the Wall Street Journal’s logistics report, Christopher M. Matthews writes: Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM 1.90% said Tuesday that it would cut its 2020 capital spending by 30% as global demand for oil is sapped by the coronavirus. The largest portion of the $10 billion in cuts will be in the Permian Basin, the largest U.S. oil field in […]
What My RAGE Gauge™ is Telling You
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXVI Before you dig into my latest RAGE Gauge™, let’s spend a few minutes defining the coronavirus pandemic: It has been way harder for some than it needed to be. I’m not talking about the poor. I’m not talking about those who are living paycheck to paycheck, either. Unfortunately, for […]
What Should Harley Do Now?
Harley was Young Research’s “Stock of the Decade” in the 1990s. The shares were first recommended as a buy in May of 1992 at a price of $3.62. During the 2000s, we advised a series of buys and sells chronicled in the chart below. The chart runs through 2007 and there was only one […]
Investing Takes Faith
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXIV Once again, you’ve been telling me all week how much you miss Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report. That’s OK. I’m used to it especially in times like these. But don’t despair. If you’ve followed Dick’s advice, through thick and thin, you’re in the catbird seat today, because one of […]
Barter is Back: Know the True Value of Your Eggs and Soap
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXIII Barter is back. You may be one of the Americans who has been forced to trade eggs or soap for toilet paper. But you need to know the true value of what you own. That goes for your investments as well. Olga Kharif reports at Bloomberg: Since the beginning […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part XXII
Only Trump Saw the Risk in America’s Relationship with China You’ve known for some time now that for many Americans today the “American Dream” is simply that, a dream. You’ve instinctively known this. It was in your gut. If you haven’t, hopefully you’ll seek out the peace of mind and safety you deserve when the […]
My Three-Week-Long Investing Program
In my personal portfolio, I am ramping it up over the month of April into May. My own largest fixed income holding (individual bonds, while clearly a superior option are not ideal for me as I am on the road and out of touch at annoying times) a full-faith-and-credit-pledge GNMA’s-centric fund is ahead by 3.0%, […]
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