Contrarian Outlook

There’s no doubt portfolios everywhere are whipsawing due to the selloff.But I’ve got good news for you: going by the historical record, this pullback will likely be shorter than most...

There’s one investment you simply must not hold in this market crash—a highly speculative, high-yielding instrument called an exchange traded note (ETN).Does the name sound familiar?...

1929, 2008 and, now, 2020.We’ve only seen this level of “selling pressure” three times since 1900. A limited sample size, sure, but we’re in ominous company. Anything and...

Nearly every retirement portfolio on the planet is reeling from the coronavirus fallout. Recoveries are going to vary widely, however, depending on the safety of the dividends in each basket.If your...

Markets have freaked out over the coronavirus—but there’s good reason to believe they have overreacted.There’s another reason we need to talk about today: corporate earnings. While...

A trio of reliable monthly dividend payers has been swept up in the pandemic panic. They could be the dirt-cheap buys that have dividend investors kicking themselves this time next year for not...

Last Thursday was the sixth-worst day on record for the S&P 500 (according to information from Nasdaq Dorsey Wright). Was. It’s already down to seventh place (yikes).On Monday, it was...

Beware of Wall Street “wisdom” now more than ever. Especially when it comes to the most commonly quoted maxim for retirement: it’s based on a rule that was never designed for times...

Let’s set aside the noise and talk about the one thing that matters most in a volatile market like this: earnings.According to recent FactSet data, analysts expect negative earnings growth in...

The stock market is in a full-blown panic, which means it’s time for us contrarian income seekers to go shopping.Few firms have been spared from the “flash-bear” we are experiencing....

We named our income investing website Contrarian Outlook for times like these. When the rest of the world is selling everything, we are sorting through their hastily discarded dividend bargains.Sales...

I don’t know why you’d try to cobble together an income stream with miserly ETFs when, thanks to this selloff, we’ve got a huge sale on closed-end funds (CEFs) throwing off...

When the market is selling off, it’s easy to panic as big losses rack up in your account.Here’s the thing, though: going to cash, and fully exposing yourself to inflation, is a guaranteed...

Let’s be honest: it’s hard not to be rattled by last week’s double-digit drop in the S&P 500. And it’s true that if the coronavirus continues to spread, we could see more...

Have four months of “dead money” ever caused this much drama?Let’s put last week’s pullback in perspective. As uncomfortable as it may have been for investors who watch the...

Should we use this dip to load up on dividend stocks?It is always a good time to put high quality payers in our portfolio. Especially now, when their yields are noticeably higher than they were this...