During turbulent times in the stock market, investors start searching for relatively safe places to invest. Money flows out of high-risk growth stocks and into stocks with reasonable valuations, solid cash flow and reliable dividends. Early forecasts for 2019 predict another range-bound year for stocks, suggesting dividends may be one of the only guaranteed sources…
The year-end volatility in the U.S. stock market has created a rare opportunity for long-term investors to buy high-quality stocks at a significant discount compared with prices from earlier this year. Fortunately for stock buyers, periods of market weakness tend to drag down all stocks, even the cream of the crop in specific industries. Bank…
This month’s volatile market sell-off is a reminder of just how delicate the stock market can be. It’s been roughly a decade since U.S. investors have had to deal with a potentially major stock market decline. If the recent stock market sell-off is the beginning of an even larger decline, investors need to be comfortable with their…
VOLATILITY IN U.S. stocks ramped up again on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 index dropping another 2.6 percent. It’s been quite a while since investors have dealt with this level of market volatility, and plenty of portfolios are deeply in the red since October.
The dip in the U.S. stock market in the past two months has provided market bulls with an opportunity to load up on some of their favorite stocks at discounted share prices. Long-term value investors are searching for the best market deals to buy on the dip, but it’s extremely important to understand the difference…
A stock market pullback since early October eliminated much of the gains in U.S. stocks in 2018 and left dozens of stocks trading at or near their lowest levels of the year. Some of these stocks are trading at new lows for good reason, but others are providing long-term investors an excellent opportunity to buy…
Yeah, that’s a clickbait title I guess, but I want to get this through people’s heads. You can’t look at a stock’s price and know anything about the company or how cheap or expensive the stock is. Price is meaningless without additional information.