Dividend stocks — particularly the undervalued variety — offer tremendous relevance for market cycles that appear poised to transition from risk-on to risk-off sentiment. As such, targeting passive-income providers may be too conservative at this juncture. For instance, with the S&P 500 index gaining just over 15%, retail investors seem more than happy to bid up the capital market. Nevertheless, the official […]

While most of Wall Street focuses on large-cap and mega-cap stocks, as they provide a degree of safety and liquidity, many investors are limited in the number of shares they can buy. Many of the biggest public companies, especially the technology giants, trade in the hundreds, all the way up to over $1,000 per share or more. At those steep […]

As Americans celebrated all that makes their country great yesterday, I wonder how many included Apple (US:AAPL) on their list? After all, the $3 trillion-plus market capitalization was a nice Fourth of July gift for the country and its investors. True, AAPL stock has been at these lofty levels before, but closing and holding above $3 trillion? It’s a big […]

Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The world’s dealmakers are roughly $US1 trillion ($1.5 trillion) down in one of the worst years for takeovers and stock market listings in a decade. That’s the year-on-year drop in the value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings in the […]

Investors were net sellers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second consecutive week, redeeming a net $2.2 billion for the LSEG Lipper fund-flows week ended Wednesday, June 28. Fund investors were net purchasers of equity funds (+$2.8 billion) while being net redeemers of taxable bond funds (-$2.5 billion), money market funds (-$2.4 billion), and […]