EWL News and Press, iShares Inc MSCI Switzerland From 03/26/20

Co-produced with Trapping Value To Kill The Virus, You Have To Kill The Economy? As the U.S. joins its transatlantic friends in shuttering a large part of its economy, investors are finally seeing the dire situation played out. coronavirus case loads continue to move up rapidly, an...

The European Central Bank did not reduce its policy rate of interest, something that many investors and analysts expected them to do. The expected reduction was not great, only 10 basis points, but a reduction was expected, nonetheless. Jack Ewing writes in the New York Times, “T...

Co-produced with Treading Softly Here at High Dividend Opportunities , we often discuss retirement, wealth and investing from a perspective that many misunderstand or which appears to contradict the more "traditional" methodologies. How we invest is governed by our Income Method, wh...

Few days ago, we've touched upon the unbelievable move down in yields on Greek ( GREK ) government debt. Although there's nothing similar among the western world to that crash of yields on those "ouzo bonds", falling yields isn't only a universal phenomena, but it's reaching unprecedented le...

Co-produced with Trapping Value Bear markets are inevitable. Regardless of how it seems that "this time will be different," they always come back. While some investors may cling to the hope that bear markets have been eliminated and while others may prefer to bury their heads in ...

Co-produced with Trapping Value Exxon Mobil ( XOM ) has certainly divided the investment community. Bulls argue that this price is the best thing since sliced bread . Bears argue that if XOM keeps contributing to climate change , we won't have any bread. The debate rages on. Certai...

Co-produced with Treading Softly Here at High Dividend Opportunities , we like to focus on our income streams. Our Income Method is the philosophy by which we invest in the market. In reality, it is actually more like returning to previous ways of viewing wealth. For generations wea...

Co-produced with Treading Softly Americans are afraid of a lot of different things and running out of money is among the top. Source: Chapman Univ. A whole 57% of the population reported that they were afraid or very afraid that they might not have enough money in the future. Fas...

Introduction "What was surprising about 2019 is that every major asset class produced above-average returns... We saw cyclical investments, those that tend to do well when the economy is accelerating like stocks and commodities, do very well alongside more defensive assets, those ...

Introduction Investing in 2018 and 2019 was fairly predictable in that the economy was slowing, interest rates peaked and began to fall and investors shifted to more defensive assets. Investing in 2020 is less clear as the U.S. economy continues to slow while the global economy is recoveri...