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Package foods consumer staples
I have been looking to add to my 15-20 core stocks with non correlated returns like Ray Dalio suggests. I was looking at Campbells soup, Kraft Heinz, and General Mills, as well as a few others in the sector. WTF is with these companies they have massive dividend yeilds and …
How would you approach this?
Hi, I’m 61 and live in Canada. My portfolio includes JEPQ, JEPI, QQQI, SCHD, VTI, and VUG. I’ve got about $3,000 sitting in a taxable account (not TFSA or RRSP), and I’m trying to decide how to approach adding to it. Given what I already hold, how would you think …
Trump to meet AI leaders to discuss US investment in their companies
US President Donald Trump is planning to meet the bosses of some of the country's most notable artificial intelligence (AI) companies to discuss the government taking a financial stake in their future. Speaking on Air Force One, Trump said the goal of the US government investing in AI companies was …
An honest question about staying invested all along?
So I've been investing for a couple of months now, and how do you have the motivation to keep investing even when prices are up? Like I mean, for example, when I started investing into stocks and index funds, my avgs were down and now they've all gone up and …
How to deal with small amounts of money
I would like to invest but I only have small amounts (1-2k euros a month which is the max and I don’t know for how long I ll be able to sustain) that I can put it. I have been wondering what is a good approach in my case - …
Company shut down 401K rollover - How will mix of ROTH/traditional be handled
My company shut down and I will need to move my 401K to an IRA. Company 401K was managed through Schwab and all my personal investment accounts are with Schwab as well (brokerage, Roth IRA, traditional IRA). The 401K was setup as self directed (PCRA) and is comprised of 60% …
Market pumpers are in overdrive
It is certainly interesting to see people fly out of the woodwork to assure everyone with all the detailed explanations of why the market went down a few measly percent, to just keep buying and it will be all time high again next week. And maybe it will be. Or …
Counterparty risk assumptions
I'm a big believer in value investing and Warren Buffett's ideas of buying companies for less than what they're worth. But here's the part that I could never wrap my head around... Let's say a company's "intrinsic value" is $200 per share, but the stock price is $100/share. Ok, so …
So the market s* a brick Friday and it is pretty much cricket sounds on the news?
\-4% intraday, closing at -2.6%. Just about every time I have seen that before the news turns into an episode of Bikini bottom freaking out over one crisis or another. I don't freakout, but I still find it odd that it barely registered on the main stream media.
Patrick Boyle on the New Zealand housing Bubble and Burst
[edit: patrick boyle is currently a professor at a university in the UK. He used to be a trader, his youtube channel is quite entertaining] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROG2uXPChY Patrick Boyle uses New Zealand’s housing bust as the warning example here. At the peak, an Auckland “dunger” sold for NZ$1.81m, and average Auckland …