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It's important to remember that as we watch the stock market crash and our personal net worth take a big hit. While that has certainly happened, it's important to note that the stock market isn't the economy.
These passive income powerhouses, with yields ranging between 5.5% and 12%, can combat historically high inflation and make patient investors richer over time.
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The popularity of these investments is likely to continue with the U.S. Treasury announcing a few weeks ago that the initial annualized rate on new Series I savings bonds sold from May through October of this year is 9.62%. If I buy these Series I savings bonds, what’s the minimum amount of time I have to hold them?
These innovative and time-tested companies are trading at a discount and begging to be bought by long-term investors.
Without investors starting to see a way through challenges and policy markets starting to help, any bear-market rallies aren’t likely to last. This would further damage confidence.
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is the undisputed EV leader and trailblazer for the entire sector. The stock rose ahead of the company's execution, however, keeping many people from owning it from a valuation perspective. There was always the chance of failure, and even CEO Elon Musk said that his company was within about a month of bankruptcy when it was ramping up its Model 3 mass production in 2017.
On Friday morning, agricultural equipment giant Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) announced that it just grew its profits about twice as fast as it grew its sales. Reporting its financial results for its fiscal second quarter 2022 Friday, Deere said its net sales and revenue came in at $13.4 billion, up 11% year-over-year. In just the first two hours of trading Friday, Deere stock fell 11.5%.
The Boeing Co., which carries an economic heft in Ohio and the Dayton region, has secured a large order. The Chicago-based aerospace giant, which may be relocating elsewhere, inked a deal with UK-based International Airlines Group for a combined total of 50 737 planes, plus 100 options.
U.S. stocks are in the midst of their longest selloff in decades. Many investors and analysts looking back at historic pullbacks believe that the current slump that has put the S&P 500 on the cusp of a bear market still has a way to go. The index is down 19% from its Jan. 3 record, flirting with the 20% decline that would end the bull market that began in March 2020.
Ark Investing's Cathie Wood thinks both chains have a problem which could be good for consumers, but maybe not investors at least in the short-term.
Another week of big losses as Wall Street adjusts to a "hard" reality. Tesla broke decisively, but it wasn't alone.
"People don't want to admit it, but psychology has the biggest impact on stock prices," investment firm manager George Ball tells Fortune. And investors' "psychology has turned negative."
The markets may be in free fall, but a few biotechnology companies had an exceptionally good day. Siga’s stock is up more than 40%; Emergent Biosolutions’s gained nearly 12%, and Tonix Pharmaceuticals, 15%. A few cases of monkeypox have been registered in Europe and North America, far from West and Central Africa where outbreaks typically emerge.
Ally and SoFi have similar business models, but one is a Warren Buffett stock and the other isn't.
High-yield dividend stocks have been viewed more favorably than high-multiple growth stocks these days. After yet another month of excessive market-wide selling, the yields of many top dividend stocks are slightly richer. As the Fed raises interest rates further, growth and value could continue to get slammed. This week, the Fed signaled that it's more than willing to keep the rate hikes coming until inflation backs down, even if it means jeopardizing a "soft landing" and inflicting more pain in
With crude prices currently in the triple digits, oil stocks are paying a gusher of dividends to their investors. Devon Energy (NYSE: DVN) launched the industry's fixed plus variable dividend trend last year after closing its merger of equals with WPX Energy. It set its base dividend payment at $0.11 per share each quarter, a level it could sustain at lower oil prices.
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