The stock market has been going higher lately. I believe it was up 9% in July. And here we are in August, and it’s up again. I think traders are just looking for some relief. We seem to have passed through earnings season with most companies not having too many surprises. (Damn, Intel.) We avoided…
Last night, I had a bit of a panic after Intel dropped horrible earnings. The stock is down 11% today. I also watched a lot of conflicting opinions on the economy’s future. The stock market has been up all week, suggesting to some that the bottom is in. Others are calling for continuing interest rate…
The other day, I bought some Intel. It currently represents about 1.5% of my investment assets. Tonight, Intel reported horrible, terrible, awful earnings. Net income down 22%. The stock will be down tomorrow. I saw a guy on YouTube suggest that Intel could (possibly) cut its dividend. This has me second-guessing myself. I spent a…
Based on the previous post, I added Intel, T. Rowe Price, and JP Morgan to my portfolio. The dividends are not great, but they seem heavily undervalued based on their cash flow. So the stocks should appreciate. The three stocks combined make up 2.5% of my portfolio. My available cash is down to 58.3%, per…
I watched a video today that made a compelling case for buying some big dividend-paying companies at current prices. The five names they listed were: Intel Altria T. Rowe Price 3M Walgreens I am not sure what to think of those names. Let me investigate. Intel (INTC) In recent years, I’ve come to believe that…
This is the dividend challenge blog, and the focus should be on dividends, right? Continuing from my last post on the topic, I am continuing to earn dividends from my holdings. June Dividends continued: Manulife (MFC.TO) paid $0.33 per share, which was automatically reinvested in more shares Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF (MGK), which I…
My cash pile is currently 61% of my liquid net worth. I wanted that to be 10% by the end of August, and it doesn’t look like that will happen, given the market’s choppiness. Worse still, each month increases that pile because of my business income. In August, if I do nothing, my cash on…
I took a few days off from watching my portfolio or checking on the stock market. A quick vacation from the Internet. And in a week, my overall portfolio went from red to green. There are some stocks up and some stocks down, but on the whole it’s green. One of the reasons my whole…
I have a weakly held belief that the long-term for oil is up. The population of the Earth keeps growing, countries like China and India are emerging from poverty into a modern level of consumption, and the global need for energy will always go up, up, up. That does not automatically mean that the two…
I have this spooky feeling. Bank of Canada is going to raise interest rates 0.75% on Wednesday of this week – from 1.5% to 2.25%. That seems pretty certain. Canada needs to keep up with the Americans in this respect. The US CPI numbers will be released on Wednesday. We will have to see if…
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