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Bellwethers Drive Dow Jones Past 23,450 – Cheers!
Image: The stock market is partying like it's 1999 or 1929, or 1987. You pick. Cheers! Creative Commons, Ruth Hartnup. The market is reacting positively to calendar third-quarter earnings reports during the trading session October 24, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now surpassed 23,450+. The rally in US equities ensues. Stocks mentioned in this note: General Motors, McDonald’s, and Caterpillar.

Oct 14, 2017

Euphoria Running Rampant: Investigating Some of the Hottest Names Around
Image Source: Tesla Roadster. As we march forward in what Morgan Stanley has dubbed a bull market of “epic proportions,” euphoria appears to be at levels perhaps not seen since the dot-com bust of the early 2000s. Let’s take a look at some of the “hottest” names on the market.

Sep 25, 2017

Boeing, Visa Top Dow Performers Thus Far in 2017
Image Source: Ken Mist. Two of our favorite ideas have been leading the pack.

Aug 1, 2017

Apple, Hanesbrands Power Higher
Image shown: Performance of the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) since the beginning of 2017. There aren’t two other companies within the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio that may be more controversial positions than Apple and Hanesbrands -- one is on the cutting edge of technology and the other makes T-shirts and underwear, a very interesting dichotomy.

May 12, 2017

Not Worried About Priceline, Boeing; Yes Worried About Fickle Retail
Image Source: Mike Mozart. Priceline and Boeing have been here before. Fickle retail continues to succumb to the Amazon effect.

Apr 4, 2017

New Taxes? Trump’s Misstep and Seeming About-Face
Image Source: FactSet and Valuentum. News that Trump was considering new taxes, his failure to repeal Obamacare, and the seeming about-face on for-profit education regulations have put the probability of corporate tax reform in jeopardy, from where we stand. If we’re right, the implications on the market could be considerable… and not in a good way. Let’s talk about this in the context of current market valuations.

Apr 1, 2017

First Quarter 2017 Comes To A Close
“Be sure to continue to study the difference between price and value—just because a stock’s price has advanced doesn’t make it more expensive if the value of its enterprise has increased at a faster rate. If you understand this concept, you may be smarter than 99.9% of the investing population.” – Brian Nelson, CFA

Mar 16, 2017

The “Year of Evangeline Adams” Continues
"...the S&P 500 has advanced more than 250% since the March 2009 panic bottom when it closed at 676.53 on the 9th of the month. Today, March 15, 2017, it closed at 2,385.26. The performance represents “a triple and then some” in the 8 years of this aging bull market. This is not performance on speculative small caps or risky biotechs, but on the largest companies in America. Please exercise prudence and care in all that you do." -- Brian Nelson, CFA

Mar 2, 2017

Dow 21,000+; Forward P/E on S&P 500 ~18!!!
To say that the broader equity market is “extended” is an understatement.

Dec 15, 2016

Is It Time or Timing in the Market?
Image Source: Dimitris Kalogeropoylos. Inside this article: "How wonderful one must think the stock market is if he or she launched their 401(k) in March 2009. On the other hand, how disappointed investors must be, by comparison, if an indexer had accumulated most of their savings by the dot-com peak. Timing is everything."

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