Financial markets and institutions are mighty unstable no matter where you look these days. Europe, America, China, Australia. Where are you supposed to go to invest your money?
February 11th, 2012 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "stocks"
Investment Alternatives in a No Growth Economy
The economy is not nearly as strong as most people think. There is no growth to speak of. And without growth, it doesn’t make sense to pay so much for stocks.
February 3rd, 2012 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Markets Seen and Unseen
Investors would have done well to go fishing yesterday. The markets were flat as a mill pond, ending the session more or less where they began.
January 13th, 2012 | Joel Bowman | 0 comments | Continued
How Reinvested Dividends Can Double Your Return in Stocks
With the big four banks – traditionally high dividend players – being downgraded by Standard and Poor’s overnight, we thought it was a great time to revisit why dividends are important and how to safely buy the companies that issue them.
December 5th, 2011 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
You Want Something You Can Take to the Bank?
You want money? You want cash? You want something you can take to the bank? Well, you’ve got it!
“A move by the world’s central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday” the Associated Press reports.
December 2nd, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Why Should You Be Focussed on Dividends?
Suddenly dividends start to look enticing. Actually, it’s not sudden at all. Investors take a while to realise the bull market is long gone. It’s been just on four years since the market peaked back in November 2007 and we’d guess there are plenty of punters who think the next bull market is just around the corner. Maybe they think we turned that corner today?
December 1st, 2011 | Greg Canavan | 1 comment | Continued
Why Reinvested Dividends Are Crucial Investments in the Next Ten Years
It’s the sort of boring fact that the investment industry doesn’t generally alert you to. And to be fair, it’s not very exciting. At all. But it does appear to be true, at least up to about 2003, that reinvested dividends massively increase your total return in common stocks over time.
November 30th, 2011 | The Daily Reckoning | 1 comment | Continued
Capitalism the Washington Way
Survivors of concentration camps report that the secret to staying alive was often simple: those who were near the kitchen made it; those who were not didn’t.
In our modern, degenerate form of capitalism the secret is the same: you want to be near the kitchen…the place where the food is handed out. You want to be near the government. That’s why there are so many lobbyists in Washington.
November 17th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Great Corrections
Yes, the Great Correction proceeds. Low levels of consumer spending, high unemployment, with periodic bankruptcies, blow-ups and financial crises.
November 17th, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Australians More Interested in Investing in Property than on Stock Market
You’ll pardon the sense of inevitability in today’s Daily Reckoning. After all it’s raining. But even so, with over $1 billion in Melbourne property clearing auctions this week (at a clearance rate of 86%) it definitely feels like Australians have found a way to hasten their own financial day of reckoning. Of course not everyone agrees.
March 29th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 45 comments | Continued
More Likely to Beat Inflation in Stocks than Cash
This is not a value-based argument. But it IS an argument for why nominal gains in stock markets are not inconsistent with rampant or even hyper inflation. We’re not saying that’s what’s going on right now. And of course, in our one-two Big Crash dance card, asset deflation precedes the Melt Up.
March 23rd, 2010 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued
Global Illness of Too Much Debt has Been Remedied by More Debt
But more importantly, the share market is at risk now for a big fall as it was in the middle of 2007 when the Bear Stearns story broke. Since then the perimeter of global markets has gradually been overrun by the forces of wealth destruction.
March 9th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
We’re in a Depression, Stocks Gotta Get With the Program
Either the last phase of the bear market has begun. Or it won’t be long before it does. Stocks can go any which way they want in the short run – depending on investors’ delusions.
February 5th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Investors Were Fairly Confident Stocks Would Perform Well ‘Over the Long Run’
Is this a little correction in the long upward climb of stock prices? Is it a pause in humanity’s march to perfection? Or is it a resumption of the bear market that began 2 years ago?
February 1st, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
A Natural Time for Stocks to Object to their Own Valuations
Well you know what we think since we wrote it last week. More earnings results from IBM, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Starbucks could confirm that reversal this week. Or not. We will just have to see.
Not that the power of U.S. earnings reports compels Australian stocks to follow the U.S. lead. It’s a different market here, with different business conditions, and closer trading ties to China.
January 18th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
