January 19, 2021
“Grantham’s forecast is an outlier. More common now are views like one presented this past week by UBS chief U.S. stock strategist Keith Parker. The S&P 500, he reckons, will rise another 5% or so during just the first half of… Continue Reading…
December 28, 2020
“1. Fidelity Total Bond Fund (FTBFX) The Fidelity Total Bond Fund seeks to provide investors with high levels of current income. The fund uses the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Universal Bond Index in guiding its allocation decisions and as a benchmark index. The… Continue Reading…
November 27, 2020
“Exxon Mobil Corporation… As of Nov. 26, 2020, the stock has a market capitalization of $172.55 billion and trades around 25% higher over the past month. From a chart perspective, a recent breakout above a 10-month downtrend line may trigger… Continue Reading…
October 9, 2020
“The market has seen record lows followed by record highs over the course of this year, and investors who have been sitting on the sidelines to avoid the madness might believe that they’ve missed an opportunity to jump in at… Continue Reading…
September 25, 2020
“What Happened: Exxon Mobil Corporation’s (NYSE: XOM) dividend yield is sitting above 10% as of Thursday. The company paid out a dividend of 87 cents in September. Based on the ex-dividend date of Aug. 12, the annual dividend rate was 7.9%. The dividend… Continue Reading…
May 12, 2020
“ Goldman Sachs expects the S&P 500 to close the year 2% higher, but not before enduring an 18% plunge over the next three months. The stock market’s recent leap from late-March lows is best attributed to investors’ “fear of missing out,” the… Continue Reading…
September 16, 2019
“Stocks opened lower Monday, after oil prices jumped sharply in the wake of a weekend attack on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil facilities knocked out more than half of the kingdom’s production. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.32% fell 97.22 points, or 0.4%,… Continue Reading…
September 4, 2019
“Unable to stomach turbulence driven by the escalating conflict between China and the United States, and leery of a darkening outlook for the economy, investors have been pulling money out of the stock market and buying bonds, the traditional place to… Continue Reading…
August 30, 2019
“US stocks on Thursday had their best day in roughly two weeks on hopes that trade tensions between the United States and China could ease… August is shaping up to be the second worst month for stocks this year, in sharp contrast… Continue Reading…
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