The Daily Paycheck Email Alert: Amy Answers Your Questions About One Troubled Blue Chip and Two High
Amy answers subscribers' questions about this widely held blue chip dividend payer. Read More
Amy answers subscribers' questions about this widely held blue chip dividend payer. Read More
The stock market has been insane the past few years, so many financial advisors are understandably steering clients toward safer blue-chip stocks. It’s a sound strategy. Because of their dividends, blue chips are often a lot less volatile than the overall market and… Read More
Judging by the first few weeks of trading in 2012, investors may assume that recent dominant themes remain in force. If so, then you’d simply hold to what you’ve been holding and avoid what you’ve been avoiding. But in many respects, 2012 is likely to play out quite differently than… Read More
Back in November, I told readers of my Scarcity & Real Wealth newsletter about the aberrant relationship between gold and platinum prices. I thought the opportunity was so compelling that more people needed to know about it. So on Jan. 9, I shared it with StreetAuthority.com readers. To recap…… Read More
The Department of Energy estimates that the United States holds as much as 2.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which is enough to meet domestic energy demand for at least a century. Great advances in extraction techniques, including fracturing, or “fracking” of shale rock formations by drilling sideways, have… Read More
Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn is no fool. When he makes his multimillion dollar investments in companies, he’s done a lot of homework and has a high degree of confidence that he stands to profit. During the summer of 2011,… Read More
It pays a yield of 10.5%. And it’s one of the most unique dividend payers on the market. It’s not a regular business — it doesn’t… Read More
Our inboxes have been overflowing following our recent talk about silver. At last count, 1,565 readers requested more information, or otherwise wrote in to ask questions or make comments. There’s definitely something about the bullish case for silver that gets peoples’… Read More
Big-picture risks dominated markets in 2011, and stocks across most markets and sectors tended to move as a herd in response to news events. For example, when the yield on Italian debt spikes, European banks sell off because many have significant… Read More
It sure feels like a challenging investing environment — especially for smaller stocks, since they are usually seen as the riskiest. But did you know the Russell 2000, a handy proxy for small-cap stocks, has risen a hefty 15% since late November? Then again,… Read More