These seven commodity stocks offer at least 3% dividend yields. Throughout the 2010s, commodities were left for dead. The great Chinese super-cycle ended, and as demand for copper, steel and other building essentials diminished, the whole commodity space went into an extended hibernation. By about 2019, most commodity stocks barely showed a pulse. But things have changed. The pandemic and…
Gas prices topped $4 a gallon Sunday and are headed higher as oil hit $125 a barrel early Monday after briefly flirting with $140 in overnight trading as the White House considers an import ban on Russian energy. The escalating war in Ukraine is playing havoc with world currency and commodity markets and that is most commonly felt in the…
These long-term ETFs offer diversification and a low-maintenance strategy. In 2022, it can be hard to keep up with all the volatility in individual stocks. Thankfully, a lot of research shows that “active management” that involves trading in and out of positions frequently can often cause more harm than good. In fact, about 60% of active managers underperformed the S&P…
At less than $10 per share, these stocks won’t break the bank. The S&P 500 is off to a shaky start to 2022, but the market pullback has created some potential buying opportunities. A stock price under $10 can be a red flag for investors that something is seriously wrong with a company, such as a broken business model or a…
The large-capitalization S&P 500 index generated a total return of 28.7% in 2021, while the Russell 2000 small-cap index total return was just 14.8%. Bank of America analyst Jill Carey Hall says small-cap stocks became about 9% more attractive relative to large-cap stocks from a valuation perspective last year, and small-cap stocks are now cheap relative to large-cap stocks “across every metric…
Private equity has recovered to pre-pandemic levels following a superb 2021. Private equity firms have made a stellar recovery from the global pandemic. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2021 deal volume surged 48% versus the same period of 2020. And in just four quarters, private equity activity returned to pre-pandemic levels. The tail winds of low interest rates, socially conscious investing and…
If you want to get into the NFT craze, here is what you need to know. The cryptocurrency king Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year, down roughly 6.9% since the beginning of 2022, but the non-fungible token, or NFT, market is booming with investors, institutions, companies and celebrities piling into the digital tokens as their value steadily trends upward. NFTs’…
Long-term ETFs offer diversification via a hands-off strategy. A lot of research shows that active management, which sometimes means trading in and out of positions in a fund frequently, can often underperform. Specifically, two recent reports from Morningstar and S&P Global show that in one of the most volatile periods on record, less than half of active funds outperformed their…
Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s December meeting, at which it signaled its intention to reduce monetary support and raise interest rates this year, show members found the economy “much stronger, with higher inflation” than in previous recoveries. Officials “also observed that the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet was much larger, both in dollar terms and relative to nominal gross domestic product,…
Investors and financial advisors are not entering 2022 in the same headspace as they started 2021. They’re rethinking many aspects of financial planning, such as what retirement will really be like and if it’s worth waiting for. They’re also worried about inflation, volatility and taxes, all of which are factors that will shape the financial advising landscape heading into 2022. The coronavirus pandemic,…