Companies May Become More Focused On Dividends As Bond Yields Rise
The increase in the 10-year US treasury yield has made bonds more competitive from an income standpoint versus the dividend yield of stocks in the S&P 500…
Record Number Of Small Businesses Not Expecting Better Business Conditions
The National Federation of Independent Businesses reported no change in the Small Business Optimism Index for April, remaining at 93.2. However, small…
A High Level Of Investor Bearishness Might Lead To An Equity Market Bounce
With the just completed month of April, the first four months of 2022 have not been rewarding ones for investors. The total return for the S&P 500 Index…
Dividend Income And Dogs Of The Dow Strategies Outperforming
With a little more than a fourth of the year behind investors, and in the face of rising interest rates, dividend paying stocks have been insulated from some…
A Near Record Low For Individual Investor Bullishness
This week's individual investor Sentiment Survey release by the American Association of Individual Investors shows the percentage of investors expressing…
Today's release of the NFIB Small Business Optimism Survey for March showed the index fell 2.4 points to 93.2. In the survey, 31% of small businesses cited…
The worst kept secret in the first quarter was the Federal Reserve embarking on a tighter monetary policy. The Fed increased the Fed Funds rate by 0.25% or 25…
Earlier this past week S&P Dow Jones Indices (.xls) reported dividend and buyback activity for the S&P 500 Index through the end of the 2021 calendar year and…
One factor likely having an outsized influence on the Federal Reserve’s interest policy is the current level of inflation. The latest reading on inflation…
Year to date through March 11, 2022, the price only return for the S&P 500 Index shows it down 11.29%, however, the index remains up 6.73% on a one year basis…
Although Tuesday's release of the NFIB Small Business Optimism Survey was conducted in February, and before the recent oil price spike, inflation issues are…
