Special Reports
Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks–Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks–6 Stage One picks, my first Stage Two pick
According to John Lennon, "Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." That's also true of the global warming. Â ("Climate change," if you want, but I prefer "global warming" because heat is the fuel driving climate change whether the change is...
Bonus Special Report: 10 Stocks for after the Coronavirus
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buy the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that different...
Special Report: 10 Stocks to Beat Amazon–Part 1 Why Amazon is such a tough stock to beat and why my first pick Illumina jumps the hurdle; second pick Intuitive Surgical, third pick is ASML, fourth pick is Seattle Genetics, fifth pick is Danaher, sixth pick Thermo Fisher
Amazon (AMZN). Maybe you've heard of it. It's been one of the great stocks of the best--well, however long. As of June 15, Morningstar puts the stock's 15-year return at an average of 33.11% a year. That's the kind annual performance that you need to show to be a...
Special Report: Getting higher dividends–safely–in a dividend crisis! Parts 1, 2, and 3 with 8 Dividend Picks
It'a gotten so that I shudder whenever a stock in my Dividend Portfolio gets near the day for the company to announce the dividend payout for the upcoming quarter. Too often, lately, the news has been grim: General Motors (GM) suspended its dividend for the second...
Bonus to my Special Report: 5 stocks for after the coronavirus (5 of 5 posted so far)
Just about everybody agrees that the world after the coronavirus pandemic and recession will look very different. And from what I've read every stock market guru worth his or her smart phone agrees that buy the stocks of companies that are "attuned" to that different...
Special Report: Do you have a strategy for the really dangerous stage in this bear? Let me tell you mine–Part 1: The ups and downs of the Bear over the next 6-10 months; Part 2: The re-opening rally; Part 3: Is the re-opening rally over already?
Part 1: The ups and downs of the Bear In digging into the historical record of Bear Markets--again--I've come to the conclusion that what you can say about a bear market with any hope of a degree of accuracy very much depends on your time scale. In the longest time...
Special Report: Everything you need to know about a bear market–Part 1 What kind of bear is this? Part 2 The Strange Case of Asset Allocations in an Extreme Bear Market
The definition of a bear market is rather simple: It's a drop of 20% or more from the market high. By this standard we've recently moved into a bear market on all the major U.S. stock indexes--and indeed on all the major overseas indexes with the exception, for the...
Special Report: Winning the financial challenge of the next 10 years against projected mediocre returns (Parts 1 and 2 with the first two Part 3 picks on where to put your money–more to come)
Pickings look rather slim for investors over the next decade, according to the results of Morningstar's annual survey of financial market forecasts. Certainly much slimmer than the extremely strong returns for U.S. stocks for the last decade. During that period the...
Special Report: The top 12 vote getters in my selling research survey
I'm going to have to do more than 10 stocks since there was some very tight bunching at the top. This will mean that it might take me the weekend to get everything researched and posted but I'll move on this as quickly as possible. To recap: As a bonus to my last...
Special Report: When to sell; What to sell
Let's be clear about one thing, shall we? I'm not calling for a sell off in 2020. The mere fact that U.S. stocks are trading at all time highs does not mean that the markets will collapse in 2020. A year like 2019, when the Standard & Poor's 500 returned 33% with...
Special Report: 12 Bargain Stock Picks NOW: Picks #1-#12
Let's start with a basic goal: The way to make money in stocks (ignoring things like dividends for the purposes of this post) is to buy low and sell higher. There's more than one way to do that, of course. You can buy a high priced stock--maybe a high-priced stock...
A summary of the changes to my Dividend Portfolio in my Special Report 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert
Just to put all the changes in my Dividend Portfolio in one list after my Special Report 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert Here are the sells: Bank of America (BAC) as of November 1 ING Group (ING) as of November 1 Tapestry (TPR) as of November 1 Westpac...
Corrected and Completed Special Report: 3 Ways to Higher Income in a Low Yield Desert
How dry is the current low yield desert Awfully dry. And likely to get drier. Which raises this question: How can income investors find higher returns? Providing three answers to that is the subject of this special report. Let's start with the dryness of the desert....
Special Report: 3 Picks for the Next Wave in Tech Profits
I've recently made two tech picks for the shorter-term. I think that over the next four weeks or so both Cirrus Logic (CRUS) and Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) will beat Apple (AAPL) and an Apple-driven technology sector rally. But what about the longer term for technology...
Special Report: It is different this time–an intelligent investor’s guide to the next 5 years of Tough Decisions. Part 1 The Fundamentals
This past week, on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 17 and 18, the Federal Reserve injected $128 billion into the short-term money market in an effort to control a liquidity crunch that threatens the Fed's ability to set short-term interest rates. On Thursday, it put...
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