Dividend Paying Stocks

I would like to share with the reader an article printed in the financial section of U.S.A. Today on March 7, 2003 which exemplifies the awesome power of a stock dividend.MICROSOFT TO ISSUE FIRST DIVIDEND TODAY:Microsoft investors will get their first payday today, when the tech giant shells out its... Read More

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Is really not as important as to how you invest in the stock market. And how you invest in the stock market should take into consideration what goals you are setting for that stock market investment.For example, are you investing for capital appreciation or for income through dividend paying stocks?... Read More

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9 Deadly Trading Mistakes!

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Basics of Stock Market

Financial markets provide their participants with the most favorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial instruments they have inside. Their major functions are: guaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within establishing proposition and demand and decreasing of operational expenses, incurred by the participants of the market.Financial market comprises variety of instruments, hence... Read More

Planning Your Dive and Diving Your Plan ? Trading!

A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving trip in Cozumel, which just happens to be one of my favorite places to dive. Anyway, she was telling me about an unexpected difficulty she encountered while swimming around the corral reef down about 85 feet. It wasn't anything serious... Read More

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Historical Briefing: Stocks, Finance and Money

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Barron's
The Stock Market Was Scary This Week. Here Are 5 Mutual Funds for Income Investors
Barron's
Investors have plenty of options for income-oriented mutual funds. The table below lists five such portfolios, which are also known as multi-asset income funds. “Investors really need to look a bit deeper to see exactly what the strategy is to generate ...

Investor's Business Daily
Growth Stocks That Fuel This Mutual Fund Manager's Outperformance
Investor's Business Daily
31, the fund managers had outperformed the S&P 500 for the calendar year as well as the previous three, five and 10 years. That four-for-four outperformance makes the Prudential mutual funds' portfolio an IBD Best Mutual Funds Awards winner. Merely 10% ...

Investor's Business Daily
Best Mutual Funds Buying CVS, Biogen, Lowe's And These Other Top Stocks
Investor's Business Daily
Eleven stocks from the medical sector made this month's list. Thirty-seven top performing mutual funds invested just under an estimated $160 million in biotech industry leader Biogen. Abbott Laboratories (ABT) (35 funds, $258 million), HCA Healthcare ...

Investorplace.com
5 Mid-Cap Mutual Funds to Buy for Income
Investorplace.com
Additionally, over long holding periods, mid-cap stocks offer the potential to outperform larger stocks with less volatility than small-cap names. In the world of mid-cap mutual funds to buy, some are dedicated dividend funds while other mid-cap ...

Forbes
What To Do After A Stock Market Crash
Forbes
... a company's stock price times the number of shares), mid-caps ($2 billion to $10 billion in capitalization), small caps (capitalization of under $2 billion), bonds, international stocks, emerging market stocks, real estate, precious metals and ...

Zacks.com
Bet on These 3 Best Oppenheimer Mutual Funds
Zacks.com
OppenheimerFunds is a subsidiary of MassMutual, which has at least $246 billion worth of assets (as of Sep 28, 2018) under management invested in 76 mutual funds across a wide range of categories including equity, fixed income, alternative and multi ...

TheStreet.com
Dow Slips for Fifth Day in Seven, Led Lower by IBM, Home Depot
TheStreet.com
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell on Wednesday after shares of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM - Get Report) slumped as the tech giant posted a third-quarter revenue miss. Netflix Inc. (NFLX - Get Report) rose 3.3% after third-quarter ...

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Market-Cap Weighting's Greatest Strength Is Also Its Greatest Weakness
Morningstar.com
Market-cap-weighted stock index mutual funds and exchange-traded funds have grown tremendously in the 40-plus years since the launch of the Vanguard First Index Investment Trust. There are several explanations for this growth: Investors are becoming ...

Bloomberg
Hedge Funds at the 'Core' of Stock Slump May Be Done Offloading
Bloomberg
Equity long-short hedge funds are among the worst-performing categories this month, along with risk-parity investors and balanced mutual funds, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. -- a sign they helped fuel the market slump. Having slashed exposures ...

Zacks.com
Consider These 3 USAA Mutual Funds for Striking Gains
Zacks.com
USAA Investment Management Company allocates its assets across a wide range of mutual fund categories, including both equity and fixed-income funds. The company seeks to follow military values — Service, Loyalty, Honesty and Integrity — to offer ...

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