If you check your portfolio religiously like I do, you’ve probably noticed that certain holdings tend to show exaggerated price movements relative to the market. During last week’s two-day 5.3% S&P plunge, they might have dropped 6% or 7%. And on Friday’s 1.4% recovery, they… Read More

  More bloodletting. After yesterday’s 800-point free fall, the Dow surrendered another 500 points today. If there was a silver lining, it’s that stocks bounced from their lows on renewed hopes that the United States and China are meeting to reconcile their trade… Read More

Investors were greeted rudely this morning by a painful 400-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. This isn’t the first sign of market jitters, as the S&P 500 is currently riding a five-day losing streak. The selling pressure started on October 3, coinciding… Read More

Note: Some of you have pointed out that there’s typically a lot of information packed into each full issue of High-Yield Investing – maybe too much to reasonably absorb in a single sitting. In an effort to reduce any “information overload,” beginning this month,… Read More

(Note: A version of this announcement appeared in Thursday’s final issue of Scarcity & Real Wealth. I’m repeating it here for those who may have missed it.) One of the most rewarding parts of my job is corresponding with readers like you. Read More