Category Archives: Business

You can get 4.68% yields on Treasuries and take little risk. So even just considering dividend-paying S&P 500 stocks, the yield better be impressive. X And just 11 S&P 500 stocks, including utilities PG&E (PCG), Pioneering natural resource (PXD) e VF (VFC), pay CD-busting yields of 7% or higher, says an Investor’s Business Daily analysis… Read More »

Many investors find it advantageous to include real estate investment trusts, or REITs, in their portfolios. These companies bring a number of benefits that cannot be overlooked. For starters, they offer a good way to gain exposure to real estate, land ownership, without actually purchasing real estate. REITs are also known as dividend champions, as… Read More »

Financial advisor and columnist Michele Cagan I am 48 years old. Last year I made $310,000 and currently have $546,000 in my retirement plan at work. My husband is disabled, he doesn’t work and doesn’t have a 401(k) plan. I wanted to open a Roth IRA but read that I make too much money. What… Read More »

A woman stands outside the home she transferred to an irrevocable trust to qualify for Medicaid. An individual can protect their assets from Medicaid, including their home, by placing them in a trust. Essentially, the assets become the property of the trust and not the individual. This mechanism can reduce the individual’s assets for Medicaid… Read More »

The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a hit in the stock market today, at one point losing more than 500 points (more than 1.5%) and hitting a session low of 32,916. Despite a slight rebound in the final minutes of the regular session, the blue chip index closed with a loss of 1.3% at 33,002,… Read More »

By Yoruk Bahceli, Karin Strohecker and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s biggest bond markets are in the throes of another rout as a new era of higher interest rates takes hold for longer. In the U.S. Treasury market, the bedrock of the global financial system, 10-year bond yields rose to 16-year highs. In… Read More »

The indices remained near session lows at midday on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2%, or 380 points, after strong jobs data. The index is testing June lows as yields continue to spiral higher. X The S&P 500 Index was down 1.4% in the stock market today as of 12pm ET. The index… Read More »

The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly fell 150 points Tuesday ahead of the early release of August’s JOLTS data. Meanwhile, Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest ETFs sold nearly $4 million worth of Nvidia shares. X The Department of Labor’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) is forecast to fall to 8.75 million in August from… Read More »

For anyone with cash savings in the bank, 2023 was a great year to get a historically high return on your money. CDs, in particular, are paying stratospheric rates, with the prime yield on a nationally available certificate sitting at a record 6.00% APY. But some lucky savers can do even better. That’s because the… Read More »