Investing

September 11, 2017 Dividends 16 Comments

Our Guide to Dividend Investing for Beginners

Our Guide to Dividend Investing for Beginners Dividend investing can be an excellent way to generate income, and grow your investment portfolio over long periods of time. By focusing on solid companies that increase their dividends regularly, a small sum of money could turn into a large nest egg … Continue reading at msn.com How […]

September 13, 2016 Personal No Comments

Investing in Healthcare Innovation

Investing in Healthcare Innovation There is a clear spectrum of innovation in healthcare. I’ve described the spectrum here, ranging from simple, blocking-and-tackling at one end to exotic AI-related things at the other end, with smart, data-driven ventures in the middle. The exotic end of … Continue reading at huffingtonpost.com Socially Responsible Investing 101 SRI. It’s […]

July 31, 2016 Large Cap No Comments

Three Tips for Investing in Biotech Stocks

Three Tips for Investing in Biotech Stocks The pipeline is driving earnings. Barron’s noted earlier this year that RBC is optimistic about Q1 earnings for several large-cap biotech stocks, among them Celgene. As Money Morning’s Tremblay points out, while investing in biotech stocks with great … Continue reading at moneymorning.com 7 Warren Buffett investing tips […]

July 15, 2016 Personal One Comment

Is Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems?

Is Impact Investing A Solution To Global Problems? “Some of the world’s most intractable social and environmental problems are in need of new solutions. From climate change to resource scarcity to exploding global population growth, the traditional levers of change, including philanthropy and … Continue reading at forbes.com We are in an investing ‘twilight zone’ […]

June 29, 2016 Large Cap No Comments

A ‘historic’ investing opportunity and other post-Brexit tips for the long term

A ‘historic’ investing opportunity and other post-Brexit tips for the long term Here are some basic moves retail investors can make while traders on Wall Street look for the Brexit dust to settle: Credit Suisse is telling clients to look beyond the fear in headline-grabbing large-cap stocks and turn focus to smaller companies. Continue reading […]

May 25, 2016 Personal 14 Comments

7 lies about investing people often fall for

7 lies about investing people often fall for According to a 2015 study from Bankrate.com, more than 50 percent of Americans don’t invest at all – as in, they don’t stash away a single cent. This figure, while not all that surprising, highlights the magnitude of the retirement crisis brewing in … Continue reading at […]

April 29, 2016 Dividends 19 Comments

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing Dividend investing is part art, part science. Financial ratios make up most of the science behind investing. What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ratios as any number or calculation used by dividend … Continue reading at investorplace.com Ex-Dividend Reminder: […]

April 21, 2016 ETF 12 Comments

13 Tips for Saving and Investing While Owning a Business

13 Tips for Saving and Investing While Owning a Business mutual funds and ETFs have an expense ratio, Kibler says, where a fee is built into the funds. Consider a Simplified Employee Pension or profit-sharing plan. After the business begins to make money and there is enough extra, consider investing in a SEP … Continue […]

"The housing bubble will burst rather than gradually deflate, following the rapid and violent pattern of decline of nearly every financial bubble throughout history," Lubaszka says. "Higher interest rates negatively impact not only the health of the housing market but other economic segments as well. The stock market takes a hit because higher rates make it more costly for companies to pay for debt. Higher rates hurt corporate profit margins and reduce stock value, bad news given the deep debt situation so many companies are in today."

"Gold prices are climbing right now because the Federal Reserve is printing dollars in flood proportions to keep the real estate market afloat," adds Richard Russell, editor Dow Theory Letters, a stock market trends and securities report published since 1946. "This is creating inflation, which erodes purchasing power. All the world's central banks are inflating right now, reducing confidence in paper globally and encouraging gold-buying. India and China are spurring gold prices as well. India is the world's largest gold-consumer, and the Chinese government is actively encouraging its citizens to buy gold."

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