Eli Lilly CEO Taking Leave of Absence – fool.com John Lechleiter will turn over reins to CFO while undergoing and recuperating from a surgery. Continue Reading On fool.com » UPC Holding Reports First Quarter 2013 Results – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing UPC Holding Reports First Quarter 2013 Results AMSTERDAM–(BUSINESS WIRE)– UPC Holding B.V. (“UPC Holding”) is today providing selected, preliminary unaudited financial and operating information for the three months ended March 31, 2013 (“Q1 2013”)… Continue Reading On dailyfinance.com » The Best-Performing Precious Metal Just Got Even Better – http://www.investmentu.com/ This may be the best time in more than a...
Sell in May and Go Away? Worst Investing Advice or Sound Investment Choice? – thedividendguyblog.com It’s fun to see how a serious field like investing comes with these semi-astrological predictions… There is an old saying telling investors to sell in May and come back in October. This is the result if you follow the “Sell in May and Go Away” along with “Buy back on Saint Crispin’s Day” which is in late October… Continue Reading On thedividendguyblog.com » STAG Industrial (STAG) Declares $0.30 Quarterly Dividend; 5.4% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/STAG+Industrial+%28STAG%29+Declares+%240.30+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+5.4%25+Yield/8309420.html for the full story....
Think "Star Wars" Is Fiction? Here's Proof the Force Is Real – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing “May the 4th be with you!” So goes the greeting for Star Wars Day, a play on the oft-repeated phrase “May the Force be with you” from the various Star Wars films. This year the “holiday” fell on Saturday, which also happened to be Free Comic Book Day. (Publishers team with retailers to give away comics in an effort to lure kids into the hobby… Continue Reading On dailyfinance.com » Think "Star Wars" Is Fiction? Here's Proof the Force Is Real – fool.com These...
Flipping Houses Exposed Book Released – flippingjunkie.com Find out what happenedI’ve finally put together the numbers for the deals that we flipped just after the 34 weeks of posts showing everything we were doing…So what made me finally make the numbers public?This is awesome…I’ve been meaning to put together all of those 34 weeks of posts into a book so that they could be read more easily, wherever, and whenever you want… Continue Reading On flippingjunkie.com » How to Buy and Sell a Home at the Same Time – zillowblog.com Now that the real estate market is picking up...
Dividend Income Update – April 2013 – dividendmantra.com Another month has passed by, and it’s time for me to post an article on my favorite subject: dividend income. The reason why I love to post articles on dividend income is because it’s pure numbers. It’s hard to argue the success of long-term dividend growth investing when you can slowly and surely see dividend income rise over time and get closer to covering one’s expenses… Continue Reading On dividendmantra.com » Must-Own Dividend Stocks – dividends4life.com There are a few stocks I plan to buy or already own that I expect to...
Re: Vanguard: Six questions (and answers) about bonds – bogleheads.org lethean46 wrote:Can I not buy CDs right at Vanguard for an IRA held at Vanguard?You can, but you are not going to get the best rates. It’s like paying a very high ER on the CDs. You can see rates athttps://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/bonds/bonddeskBank of India 1-year 0.45% (0.85% if you buy directly from Discover Bank)Discover Bank 2-year 0… Continue Reading On bogleheads.org » Spending on Gasoline Hits a 30-Year High – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing Good news! According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Americans had to spend only 4% of their...
mREITs Facing Attack From Regulators – dividends4life.com Yield-starved investors unwilling to accept a 90% reduction in income have been forced to look elsewhere for yield. One sector that still provides double-digit returns is mortgage REITs, known as mREITs. While yields on fixed income instruments have plunged, the mREIT sector has provided excellent returns to income-seeking investors for the past several years… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Weekend Reading – May 3, 2013 – dividendmantra.com Dow Jones 15,000. S&P 500 1,600. What is going on?? After the DJIA briefly crossed the 15,000 mark today I think it’s safe to say the...
With annual profits of $7.2 billion there is little doubt that Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD) is after another company. This article tries to analyze...
Microsoft and Nokia Ready to Change the Game – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing When well-known entities like Nokia and Microsoft hitch their respective wagons together, there’s bound to be high expectations. In this instance, with its steadily declining market share, Nokia literally put its corporate life on the line with the introduction of its high-end Lumia 920 running Microsoft’s Windows phone OS… Continue Reading On dailyfinance.com » Dollar Haters Look for New Alternative Currency After Gold Crash & Bitcoin Bust – http://slant.investorplace.com/ Bitcoin took the financial blogosphere by storm in April as the electronic currency soared — at one point tacking...
High-Yield Stocks with Strong Buy Rating – dividends4life.com I’m often asked if I would recommend to buy high-yielding stocks. I answer them that it makes sense to buy stocks with a yield over five percent but don’t expect that they will pay the dividend to the end of your lifetime and don’t expect that they will hike their payments each year or with a higher growth rate… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Dividend Link Time – thedividendguyblog.com Let’s jump right into the links: 1. Spotting the Red Flags of Investment @ The Passive Income Earner. 2. Will You Sell And Go Away? @ Dividend...
Warren Buffett Makes Shareholders Sweat – http://www.smartmoney.com/ Want to meet the Sage of Omaha? Run — in his 5K race. Continue Reading On http://www.smartmoney.com/ » How to Profit From the Apple (AAPL) iBond Announcement – http://www.investmentu.com/ There was big news from Apple this week. And investors are eager to uncover exactly what it means and… most important… how to play the situation. The strategy is simple. On the latest Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) earnings call, Tim Cook announced that the existing share buyback program would be increased to $60 billion from the original $10 billion… Continue Reading On http://www.investmentu.com/ » Are...
TD Visa now charge a 1% fee on credit card balance transfer – myfirst50000.com Its always kind of a bad day when you have to give that big cheque for rent. I mean why is it costing that much only to have a root under my head? Toooo bad. A couple of hundred bucks just gone with the wind.I was all so happy yesterday: just like magic, my non-registered portfolio was hitting back the 120k! I never taught I was going to hit it again anytime soon… Continue Reading On myfirst50000.com » Robert Half International, Inc. (RHI) Declares $0.16 Quarterly...
Who in Their Right Mind Owns Best Buy Stock? – http://slant.investorplace.com/ Perhaps my favorite headline from Tuesday was that electronics retailer Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) sold its 50% interest in Europe’s Carphone Warehouse back to the company for about $775 million. Just five years ago, it paid $2.15 billion to acquire that stake — for math-challenged investors, that means a loss of over $1… Continue Reading On http://slant.investorplace.com/ » Five Places to Expect a Crisis This Summer – http://www.smartmoney.com/ Commentary: Problems tend to bloom in August, not in May. Continue Reading On http://www.smartmoney.com/ » Re: speaking of unsecure wireless, how to...
Avoid No-Growth Dividend Stocks – dividends4life.com When building a dividend growth portfolio many people look at how many consecutive years a company has increased its dividend. A company that has raised its dividend every year for 50 consecutive years, for example, is likely to continue the practice. But this record of consistency alone is not enough to justify a place in my Ultimate Dividend Growth Portfolio, a paper portfolio which you can Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Seagate Technology (STX) Declares $0.38 Quarterly Dividend; 4.1% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Seagate+Technology+%28STX%29+Declares+%240.38+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+4.1%25+Yield/8295321.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com...
Gold ETP Holdings Have Record Monthly Drop (Audio) – bloomberg.com April 30 (Bloomberg) — Gold holdings in exchange-traded products plunged 174 metric tons in April, the biggest monthly drop ever. Jason Toussaint, managing director of investments at the World Gold Council, comments on the sell-off. Bloomberg Radio’s Catherine Cowdery reports on Exchange Traded Funds. Continue Reading On bloomberg.com » Why the U.S. Paying Down Debt Is a BAD Thing – http://slant.investorplace.com/ On the surface, it seems like a great headline: America will pay down its debts in the current quarter, marking the first time in six years that has happened....
Be Fraud Aware: Protect Your Money – dividendninja.com This post has been written on behalf of the B.C. Securities Commission, to bring awareness to the – Be Fraud Aware app. Investment fraud isn’t something we consider until it is on the front-page news and media. But investment fraud is more common place than unsuspecting investors may realize… Continue Reading On dividendninja.com » Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Passes Through 9% Yield Mark – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Tuesday, shares of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASD: GLAD) were yielding above the 9% mark...
5 Sectors That Have Been Smashed Since 2009 – http://slant.investorplace.com/ The stock market has more than doubled since spring 2009, but there are a handful of laggards that remains just as battered now as they were back then. And with good reason. The global economy has undergone tremendous upheaval. In technology, we saw the rise of mobile devices by companies like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and streaming media from companies like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX)… Continue Reading On http://slant.investorplace.com/ » The Absolute Best Dividend Stocks In America – streetauthority.com I'd bet most income investors know about the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index. To be included in...
Today was the first day of the summer in Montreal – myfirst50000.com I went for shopping pass noon today and it was great to feel the heat of the sun. I was wearing jeans, a sweatshirt and running shoes… and I was very hot. So I went back on, pick on a summer dress and I went back to my little escapade. Wearing a summer dress on the end of April felt real nice… Continue Reading On myfirst50000.com » Early Retirement Is Impossible Because Of Health Insurance Costs…Not! – dividendmantra.com After some recent mainstream media attention on this blog and...
Apple Has Commitment Issues – fool.com With Apple’s most recent quarter, the company’s off-balance sheet manufacturing and component commitments declined precipitously. Continue Reading On fool.com » In the Market for a PC? This Is the Best Windows Laptop You Can Buy Right Now – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing Even though the broader PC market is in an accelerating decline, with unit shipments falling 14% last quarter, there’s still plenty of consumers out there looking to purchase a PC. To that end, Soluto has put together a purchasing guide for those in the market for a Microsoft Windows laptop… Continue Reading...
Wholesaling Bank-Owned (REO) Houses (No, it’s not impossible.) – flippingjunkie.com In my last post, I explained how to wholesale a house. That post covered what wholesaling is and how to assign contracts and double-close. That post handled wholesaling as it pertained to working with motivated sellers (buying from private owners, not banks or listed properties). Today’s post is going to cover wholesaling houses that are bank-owned… Continue Reading On flippingjunkie.com » Memphis Responds to T.J. Simers on Grizzlies – Clippers NBA Matchup – blog.memphisinvest.com/blog#sthash.4aMW99W1.dpbs We Could Invest In Real Estate Anywhere…We Choose Memphis! There is something special about Memphis and...
Weekend Reading Links – April 28, 2013 – thediv-net.com For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week: Articles From DIV-Net Members Dividends4Life presented A Disciplined Approach To Dividend Stocks Dividend Growth Investor presented When to sell my dividend stocks? The Dividend Guy presented 17 Dividend Stocks with Both EPS & Sales Growth on Fire Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Better Investing Members Favored Stocks 40percent 20years presented The...
Is T-Mobile Running a Scam? – fool.com The “Un-Carrier” has made headlines by ditching service contracts. However, behind the headlines T-Mobile is still decetively locking consumers in for two years, just in a different way. Continue Reading On fool.com » Is T-Mobile Running a Scam? – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing No. 4 domestic carrier T-Mobile is making a big push, rebranding itself as the “Un-Carrier” and deriding its larger rivals for their subsidizing ways. The company finally got its magenta hands on Apple’s iPhone, filling the biggest historical gap in its device portfolio… Continue Reading On dailyfinance.com » Is Textainer...
Carnival of Financial Planning – dividendmonk.com/ For weekend reading, here is a useful list of articles on a variety of money topics for the Carnival of Financial Planning. If you run a blog and you would like to participate in the next carnival, submit a post at Blogger Carnivals. BUDGETING AND ECONOMICS Mr.CBB @ Canadian Budget Binder writes How We Saved $146… Continue Reading On dividendmonk.com/ » Recent Dividend Increases – dividendmantra.com As a dividend growth investor, one of the primary objectives I seek is passive dividend income from my investments that increases over the rate of inflation, annually. It’s...
Starbucks' Special Model Is Valuable, But Maybe Not This Valuable – investopedia Starbucks continues to deliver good execution, but the valuation demands greatness. Continue Reading On investopedia » Should Intel Change Strategies? – dailyfinance.com Filed under: Investing There’s no beating around the bush here: Intel is the most advanced semiconductor manufacturer on the planet. The company believes its leading-edge capacity is its single greatest asset it can leverage against the competition. In the coming years, process nodes and transistors will continue shrinking, and investors are hoping that Intel’s cutting-edge technology will let it gain considerable traction against ARM Holdings designs…...
Dividend Links – thedividendguyblog.com 1. Why I Love Dividend Growth Investing @ Dividend Mantra. 2. Genuine Parts Company (GPC) Dividend Stock Analysis @ DGS. 3. Is Google or Amazon The New 21st Century Conglomerate? @ IS. 4. PepsiCo – Dividend Fact Sheet @ Dividend Engineering. 5. EZCorp As Pie @ Barel Karsan. 6. When to sell my dividend stocks? @ DGI… Continue Reading On thedividendguyblog.com » Dividend Growth: Freedom Through Passive Income Book Review – dividendgrowthinvestor.com Several months ago, Mike from Dividend Guy Blog sent me his book and asked me for a review. I did not receive any compensation for this review, other than a free copy of the US version...
