Almost one year ago, in March 2015, we explained how “The Fed’s Artificial Steepening Of The Yield Curve” has resulted in many unexpected consequences, the most important of which ha...
Ahead of the Chinese New Year, China was very much a topic of discussion this week at Harvard Business School, where I attended and participated in a seminar for global CEOs. From eight in the morning...
I am not a stock trader; I am a dividend and value based long-term buy-and-hold investor. When I add a stock to my dividend portfolio, it is my intention to hold the stock forever. I am not smart eno...
Although the beginning to 2016 has been dismal, a recent seasonal pattern may suggest that better times lies ahead. The recent “January effect” is nothing unusual, even though the declines have be...
The High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio is a publicly tracked stock portfolio on Scott’s Investments. Its goal is to capture quality high yield stocks with a history of raising dividends. The...
The U.S. jobs numbers for January, 2016 were good enough to send odds for the next rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve to jump across the scheduled meetings for 2016. Yet, the odds for December a...
By “Chowder” The question comes up again and again; “where do you put your money?” [Well,] there is a way to invest that makes sense, that’s easy to implement, and that...
After a gap in time of almost a decade the Fed increased interest rates on December 16th, 2015,. The SPX has a one day bounce from the news on the day of the announcement, then it turned negative and ...