Is a Recession looming?
Is this a Bear market?
How does this compare to the performance of the equity markets in 2018?
Why was Target’s target missed?
New Twitter stock bid $34.20?
Is the High Yield sector a bargain?
What are “Dividend Growers?”
How do investors identify them?
What events could end the 2022 Bear market?
Headline Round Up
*Federal Reserve Chair Powell Says, “Beatings will Continue Until Morale Improves!”
*Longer Term Global Government Bond Yields Fall?
*Cash Levels Highest Since 2001. Is a financial market bottom in the works?
*High Yield Spreads Highest in Two Years.
*Goldman Sachs Says 30% Chance of Recession in Next 2 Years. Does that mean 70% not likely?
*Household Debt Highest Since 2019 and Missed Subprime Payments Rising. Are households running out of discretionary spending power?
*Walmart, Target, Home Depot, & Lowe’s Quarterly Results. What does this tell us about consumers and the stock market?
*Dethroned Billionaires SPAC’s and the Chinese?
*Warren Buffett Buying Dividend Growers!
*Tech Startup Party OVER!
*Elon Musk Calls ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) a Scam! What is ESG and who decides it?
*Allianz Hedge Fund Manager Busted with a Lie by SEC Runs to the Restroom and Never Comes Back?
*U.N. Declares Fossil Fuels a “Dead End?”
Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (12/31/2021 – 05/20/2022)
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Dow Jones Industrial Average (12/31/2021 – 05/20/2022)
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Standard & Poor’s 500 Index and U.S. Consumer Price Index – Urban Consumers, Year Over Year, Non-Seasonally Adjusted (01/01/1978 – 12/31/1982)
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Quarterly Standard & Poor’s 500 Index – Earnings Estimates/Forecast (05/20/2019 – 05/20/2022)
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ICE Bank of America U.S. High Yield Index, Option Adjusted Spread (1998 – 2022)
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Bloomberg U.S. Corporate High Yield Average Index, Options Adjusted Spread (05/20/1997 – 05/19/2022)
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Profit Report
Nuveen: What would end the 2022 bear market?
Why buy “Dividend Growers?”
When is High Yield credit a bargain?