DIVS News and Press, SmartETFs Dividend Builder ETF From 06/06/22

After the stock price dropped almost 40%, BlackRock is definitely worth a look again. And despite a mediocre performance of the stock market during the first quarter of fiscal 2022, BlackRock performed quite well. Despite the wide economic moat, the looming bear market (and recess...

With the war in Ukraine and China’s zero-Covid policy, delays and prolonged supply bottlenecks are defining this year’s world trade outlook. Yes, demand is softer, notably from China but the backlog is such that supply chains will remain strained for the rest of the year...

Quite frankly, new business creation is occurring in many parts of the world. We have observed new businesses being created at an annual growth rate greater than 15% since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, France, Japan and the United States. The Economist estimates th...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Davos 2022, the annual meeting of The World Economic Forum, came to an end with many experts painting a bleak outlook for the global economy. Wall Street analysts, economists, and industry leaders agree that a global recession is likely. A close evaluation of some of the topics di...

Central banks are facing a growth-inflation trade-off. Hiking interest rates too much risks triggering a recession, while not tightening enough risks causing runaway inflation. The Fed has made it clear it is ready to dampen growth. Implication: We are neutral developed market (DM) equiti...

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. still shows robust financial performance. Its fundamentals remain sound without any hint of overspending on acquisition. The recent trend of the stock price appears to be geared downwards. The company has adequate earnings to sustain dividend paym...

Global consumer price inflation picked up from 5.3% y/y in December 2021 to an estimated 7.0% this May, a pace that will likely be maintained through September. Our May forecast already incorporates a mild quarter-on-quarter contraction in eurozone real GDP in the second quarter and d...

How similar will the next three or five years look from the years that immediately preceded the pandemic? And what are the implications for us as global equity investors? We don’t expect anything like the hyperinflation and stagflation we experienced in the 1970s; our outlook s...

The economic news emanating from Britain and the European Union is continuing to come in weak, as many European countries are expected to slip into a recession this year. While inflation may be ebbing in China and the U.S., inflation is still accelerating in Britain and the rest of Eu...