June 20, 2022 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, PFXF, VGSH |
I’ve probably overstayed my welcome in the Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (VGSH) and the VanEck Preferred Securities ex-Financials ETF (PFXF), but with the Federal Reserve accelerating its interest rate increases, I think selling these two members of my Dividend Portfolio is a bit more pressing right now.
November 23, 2021 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, VGIT, VGSH, Volatility |
On what looks like solid odds for interest rate increases in 2022, I’m selling my remaining Treasury ETFs out of my portfolios.
January 4, 2021 | Daily JAM, Dividend Income, KMI, VGSH |
It’s unusual, to say the least, to have a dividend portfolio match the returns on the Standard & Poor’s 500–especially in a year when the S&P 500 was setting an all time high–but that’s what happened in 2020. My Dividend Portfolio showed a price gain of 12.28% for 2020. Add in the 3.43% dividend yield and the total return for the portfolio for the year was 15.71.% For the year the S&P 500 returned 16% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average returned 7%.
March 3, 2020 | Daily JAM, VGSH |
I'd wager that almost nobody today is buying U.S. Treasuries for their yield. The yield on the 10-year Treasury broke below 1% to 0.9043% for the first time EVER. The 10-year finished the day with a yield of 1.01%. The yield on the 2-year Treasury fell to a low of...
July 12, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, VGIT, VGSH, Volatility |
Treasury prices have been a little weak over the last two weeks. As a consequence the Vanguard Intermediate Term Treasury ETF (VGIT) and the Vanguard Short Term Treasury ETF (VGSH), for example, have dropped from highs on June 25 of $66.03 and $60.94, respectively, to...
June 27, 2019 | Daily JAM, GOLD, Morning Briefing, VGIT, VGSH |
Today with the yield on the 10-year Treasury down to 2.02%, a drop of 2 basis points, two Wall Street heavy weights are predicting that we haven't seen a bottom in yield yet. Not by a long shot. Goldman Sachs today cut its forecast for the year-end yield on the...
June 20, 2019 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, VGSH, Volatility |
Last night I made Vanguard Short Term Treasury ETF (VGSH) the No. 2 pick in my Special Report 10 Best Picks for the Next 6 Months of 2019. Today I'm adding it to my Jubak Picks Portfolio. I'm calling this my Judy Shelton Pick. I'll explain what that means in a moment....
