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3 Top Apartment REITs For Dividend Investors
Image Source: Unsplash Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs, are widely appealing for income investors due to their high dividend yields.There are many different industries within REITs. For example, there are REITs that own retail properties, and others that own healthcare properties.Apartment REITs are attractive options because they may be more recession-resistant than other types of […]
Market Talk – Thursday, Aug. 22
Image Source: Pixabay ASIA:The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today:• NIKKEI 225 increased 259.21 points or 0.68% to 38,211.01• Shanghai decreased 7.81 points or -0.27% to 2,848.77• Hang Seng increased 249.99 points or 1.44% to 17,641.00• ASX 200 increased 16.50 points or 0.21% to 8,027.00• KOSPI increased 6.54 points or 0.24% to 2,707.67• […]
Credit, Not Stocks, May Be The Better Investment From Here
Image Source: Pexels The Buffett Indicator currently stands at almost 200%, one of the most extreme readings of overvaluation in its history.With stocks so richly valued, prudent investors worry that stretching for further gains here may not be worth the risk.Which is why more and more of them are starting to prioritize investing for income over […]
Bulls Take Off
Even though the rally in the S&P 500 lost steam over the past week, sentiment has soared. The latest weekly survey from The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) showed 51.6% of respondents reported as bullish, up from 42.5% in the week prior. That’s the first time in five weeks that the majority of respondents have been […]
Why This AI Stock Dropped 13% Despite Q2 Earnings Beat
Image Source: Pexels AI stock Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) discovered that beating earnings estimates does not always move the needle; in fact, the stock was down about 13% after a second quarter earnings beat.Snowflake generated $869 million in revenue in the second quarter, a 29% increase over the same quarter a year ago. Analysts had predicted $852 million in […]
Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs In New Revision
Image Source: Pexels The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today issued a major downward revision in total employment, telling us what more savvy observers of the federal jobs data already knew. Namely, that the employment situation isn’t nearly as strong as the federal establishment survey says it is.The establishment survey is the employment survey that looks at total […]
U.S. Retail Earnings Update – Thursday, Aug. 22
Image Source: Unsplash To date, 162 of the 199 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q2 2024, representing 81% of the index. Of those companies that have reported their quarterly results, 72% announced profits that beat analysts’ expectations, while 4% delivered on-target results and 24% reported earnings that fell below estimates. […]
3 Funds To Buy As Consumer Sentiment Makes A Solid Rebound
Image Source: Unsplash U.S. consumer sentiment, which had hit rock bottom on fears of an impending recession, bounced back in August as inflation cooled and hopes of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve in September brightened.The University of Michigan’s preliminary consumer sentiment index rose to 67.8 in August from the final reading of 66.4 in […]
Ranked: The Countries That Added The Most Gold Reserves (2013-2023)
Countries Buying the Most Gold (2013-2023) Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, increased sanctions, and discussions around de-dollarization, interest in gold purchases is rising. But which countries are leading the charge in increasing their gold reserves?This graphic ranks the top 10 countries by the change in gold reserves over the past decade (2013-2023). The figures, measured in tonnes, […]
Reminder: The Fed Follows Rates, It Does Not Set Them
↵Image source: Wikipedia “Davidson” submits:The 3-month Treasury rate has been declining in recent days. Today’s low below 5%. There are two possible reasons for this IMO:1) Individuals are getting more bearish and selling equities for money market2) Institutions are lessening the Short-month/Long-5yr-10yr Treasury hedge that seemed in place the last 2yrs.A continuation of this pattern is how the […]
