Contrarian Outlook

Of course, we all love it when the stock market soars like it has. But what if stocks pull back? We’ve already seen three big drops this year, so it’s fair to think another one could be lurking...

I know it goes without saying that we’ve all loved watching our dividend stocks skyrocket this year. But October—as always, it seems—has amped-up the volatility. The end of the year looks choppy,...

When I show you a chart like the one below, your first thought might be that we’re looking at, say, the recent stock performance of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)—or maybe a biopharma firm that just dropped a...

“Buy bonds!” – Contrarian Outlook, 2H 2022 Two years later, the herd finally hopped on our fixed-income bandwagon… “Buy bonds!” – Wall Street, 2H 2024 Yes, it is satisfying to be right. But it also...

Normally when interest rates fall, we closed-end fund (CEF) investors are tempted to pick up a fund like the 7.3%-paying Royce Small-Cap Trust (NYSE:RVT). It seems like a particularly savvy move...

If you’re reading this, I assume you are already bullish on oil. Or at least intrigued by the upside possibility. And why not? There are three reasons crude may continue to crescendo. First, we have...

Another day, another sign the economy is heading straight for that “no-landing” scenario I’ve been talking about for weeks now … … and yet another sign the two dividends we’re going to discuss today...

Having a diversified portfolio is pretty much Investing 101, right? I mean, it’s one of the first things we all learn as investors. But there’s a problem here: Going for balance in “regular” stocks,...

Let’s talk about companies that are serious about dividend hikes. I’m talking about recent payout raises of 25%, 67% and even 120%. Know what happens to a stock that raises its dividend like this?...

Here’s an idea that might sound just a little bit odd at first: You can actually get retirement-investing advice that’s too conservative. That may not sound like a bad thing, right? After all, who...

Now that Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell has pivoted towards his “other mandate,” we should take a cue from my six-year-old, who yells from the back seat: “FedEx!” For years she has been enamored...

Right now, there’s $6.5 trillion in cash sitting on the sidelines—and a big slice of it is about to drop straight into a select group of dividend stocks. We’re going to “front run” that cash wave...

Closed-end funds (CEFs), with an average yield of around 8%, are terrific for just about any investor—especially those looking to their portfolios to help pay the bills. Heck, even if you’re not...

Real estate is great, except for the heavy time commitment, which makes it a non-starter for me. Enter real estate investment trusts (REITs), which let us invest in not one or two buildings, but...

I recently wrote about a trend that’s making income investors excited: After years of failing to produce decent returns, bonds are back. Media outlets, including Bloomberg, have picked up on this....

How would I invest a chunk of money today? Say $10K or even $100K? I’d load up on dividend magnet stocks, sit back and watch Fed Chair Jay Powell pump them to the moon! Want to know what happened the...