By Kimberly A. Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek, Next Avenue Editor’s note: This article is co-written by a member of the board of editors at EIX.org from The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, which is a funder of a Next Avenue. ASSOCIATED PRESS The new, buzzy Netflix NFLX documentary on the late, beloved, iconic public broadcasting TV host, painter Bob… More
Real estate investment trusts REITs investing concept. getty Investors in these real estate investment trusts benefit from dividends greater than the yields paid by owning 10-year Treasury notes. These REITS are cheap, too, if you can judge by applying classic valuation techniques: each one is now trading below book value. The catch may be that… More
2nd December 1963: American President Lyndon Baines Johnson addresses the nation on his first … [+] thanksgiving day television programme, broadcast from the executive offices of the White House. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Getty Images In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. government embarked on an unprecedented surge of fiscal spending and monetary easing… More
Getty getty When he passed away last week, Bernie Madoff still had 139 years left on his prison sentence. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers the story—Madoff swindled thousands of investors for billions of dollars, running one of the most elaborate Ponzi schemes in history. In an ideal world, Madoff’s conviction would have been… More
Which is better, using appreciated securities or an IRA? Here’s a calculator to answer the question. Volunteers at Habitat for Humanity in Culver City, California. (Photo by John Wolfsohn) Getty Images The 2017 tax law, with its huge standard deduction, did serious damage to the tax benefits of philanthropy: Now, for a lot of taxpayers,… More
Stock market graph. getty Emerging markets offer favorable conditions for value investing. Here are 3 ways to explore opportunities in emerging markets. With global bond interest rates near 5,000-year lows and U.S. stocks trading near 100-year highs, the traditional 60/40 balanced investment portfolio’s return outlook is somewhat bleak. Generating an attractive real return is becoming more challenging, requiring that investors… More
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Topline Bitcoin, the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency, surged past the $40,000 plateau Thursday for the first time in its history, pushing the total value of the entire cryptocurrency market beyond $1 trillion, which also represented a historical first. A photo of Bitcoin in Shiyan, Hubei Province, China.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Costfoto / Barcroft Studios… More
UKRAINE – 2020/08/26: In this photo illustration one hundred US dollar banknotes are seen on … [+] display. (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images They’ve been making money. They’ve been paying dividends in excess of 3%. Their price/earnings ratios are well below that of the stock market… More
Topline JPMorgan Chase will pay a record $920 million to resolve a criminal investigation by three federal agencies over its role in the alleged manipulation of precious-metal and Treasury markets, federal regulators said on Tuesday. The bank settled probes of market manipulation in precious-metal and Treasury markets over an … [+] eight-year period. Win McNamee/Getty… More
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close up photo of one hundred dollar note, money background getty Each of these stocks pays a dividend of greater than 3% — which is significantly more than U.S. Treasury bonds or notes are paying right now. Obviously, an investor in an equity is taking on more risk than purchasing government-guaranteed rates but some may… More
Topline The market fell sharply on Thursday as tech stocks continued to struggle, while conflicting timelines on a coronavirus vaccine and uncertainty around the next fiscal stimulus bill from Congress also weighed on investors. Stocks were under pressure again on Thursday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Key Facts The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 1%, nearly… More
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