ITOT News and Press, iShares Core S&P Total U.S. Stock Market From 05/11/20

Is your portfolio built for the new investing era? Nobody knows what the next decade may bring. However, it is fair to say that after a 40 year period of falling rates, buy-the-dip, disinflation, globalization, etc. that we could be at the start of a new era. Fundamental economic shifts c...

The S&P 500 ( SPY ) has just had its best week in 43 years, propelled higher by more speculative small cap ( VB ) and higher-beta ( SPHB ) stocks. Some have even been calling the 22% run off the March 23 lows "a bull market" - arguably a meaningless label, considering the record-setting,...

Co-produced with Trapping Value Winning at poker or at investing requires reading the "tells." A tell in poker is a change in a player's behavior or demeanor that is claimed by some to give clues to that player's assessment of their hand. A player gains an advantage if they obser...

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...

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...

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...

Folks thought things were bad for value stocks during the Dot.com mania, and they were: At the peak of the bubble, the 10-year annualized underperformance of low P/E names vs. high P/E names was -2.7% More news on: Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, iShares S&P 500 Value ETF, Cornerstone...