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America is rising to the COVID-19 challenge on an impressive scale, as governments, corporations, and citizens are transitioning resources and behaviors to fight this enemy of pandemic proportions. These hopeful acts are awe-inspiring as we are reminded of how interdependent we are on one ano...

ETF Overview Fidelity MSCI Utilities Index ETF ( FUTY ) owns a portfolio of U.S. utility stocks. The fund seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI USA IMI Utilities Index. Stocks in FUTY's portfolio are considered defensive stocks as they tend to generate stable and predictable cash...

It’s been a while since I’ve heard anyone say this is a stock pickers market, however that is exactly what I believe is occurring. With ETF’s and mutual funds suffering declines in line with the S&P 500 ( SPY ) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( DIA ), many investo...

We are currently experiencing one of the most volatile markets on record, as the S&P Volatility Index "VIX" has now far surpassed numbers seen during the Great Recession of '08/'09. Data by YCharts This has been especially evident of late, with share prices in the utility sector swin...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...

Over the past half-decade or so, demand for high-dividend stocks has been growing while yields have been falling. This has given rise to a range of high-dividend investment funds, one of the most popular being Global X's U.S Superdividend ETF ( DIV ). DIV invests in the 50 highest yielding...

The novel coronavirus "SARS-Cov-2" and the associated pulmonary disease "COVID-19" continue to dominate market movements and led to one of the most bizarre jojo months I have ever witnessed on the stock markets. Daily swings of several hundred to a thousand points in the Dow have become the ne...

REIT Rankings: Mall REITs In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We focus on sector-level fundamentals, analyzing supply and demand conditions and macroeconomic factors driving underlying performance. We...

Summary The Utilities sector, just like the market as a whole, is trading at a high multiple, both historically (relative basis) as well as on an absolute basis. A multiple of ~20x is neither cheap, nor attractive, and that's especially true for the Utilities sector that trade with a 21.1x...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...