By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Blue-chip stocks are typically sector leaders boasting market caps in the billions. Many also pay attractive dividends. The combination of growth, value, and dividend income continues to draw investors to blue chips.
A key argument for remaining in blue-chip, dividend-paying stocks has shifted from their value solely as an income-producing investment to their potential for future dividend growth.
Here's a blue-chip stocks list to keep you profiting in 2015...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 - • Print | Email
The Lockheed Martin stock price (NYSE: LMT) this year has been sensitive to developments in the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Investors can expect this LMT stock price driver to be around for some time.
That's enough to sour some investors on Lockheed Martin stock. Don't let it deter you...
By Garrett Baldwin, Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
The Nasdaq pre-market showed further signs of trouble, with Nasdaq futures plunging 46 points. This was the day after the Nasdaq Composite fell 118 points – its steepest one-day decline in almost a year.
Likewise, Dow futures today forecasted a 130-point slide from the Dow close yesterday, when the DJIA index plunged 292 points.
By Shah Gilani, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Morning • @ShahGilani_TW - • Print | Email
When I moved to Sarasota in 1999 I was invited by a prominent local to an "un-wedding wedding" to make new friends in town. I accepted the invitation and, not wanting to display my ignorance, avoided asking the burning question, "What's an un-wedding wedding?"
Inevitably I found out what an un-wedding wedding is. It's a full-blown wedding, only the host isn't actually getting married. They want to get married but aren't, and go through the motions anyway.
By Garrett Baldwin, Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
The DJIA today fell 292 points. The Nasdaq suffered its steepest one-day decline in almost a year.
What happened? A wide sell-off in the biotech and technology sectors outpaced gains fueled by news of a merger between Kraft Foods Group (Nasdaq: KRFT) and H.J. Heinz Co. Continued weakness in Europe also remains a central concern to investors.
Here are the day's top stories, plus our new profit tip for investors...
By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - • Print | Email
The best mutual fund in tech has managed annual returns of nearly 11% without owning a single share of a big tech darlings.
And yet the performance of the Fidelity Select IT Services Fund (MUTF: FBSOX) makes it the best mutual fund in the tech sector for the past 15 years.
Since March 10, 2000 – the peak of the tech bubble – the fund has posted an average annual return of 10.9%. According to Lipper, that's more than double the second-best mutual fund in the tech sector.
The secret lies in choosing a certain kind of tech stock...
By Money Morning Staff Reports, Money Morning - • Print | Email
More than a third of Americans have nothing at all saved for retirement. Fortunately, the tech sector provides the kind of returns Americans need to reach their retirement goals.
One of the best ways to build wealth with tech stocks is to focus on those with the potential to double.
By Garrett Baldwin, Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
Today's pre-market movers include Kraft Foods Group Inc., who saw its stock skyrocket on news of a merger with H.J. Heinz Co.
However, the broader stock market today is hardly getting the same kind of lift. Dow futures forecasted a small decline from the Dow close yesterday.
By Michael E. Lewitt, Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt - • Print | Email
If you want to lose all of your money, you could do worse than tune in to CNBC on a regular basis.
The network is a cheerleader for an overvalued stock market and the Federal Reserve policies that have pumped it up – and which are steering the economy straight into another recession.
Seven years after the financial crisis ripped across the globe, the world is mired in debt. This is particularly worrying since the "Debt Supercycle" that began 30 years ago is now supported only by the largesse of increasingly shaky central banks.
Today the world is buried in more than $100 trillion of debt. Hanging over that is another roughly $700 trillion of derivatives. Is it any wonder many economies can't grow when they have to service all of that debt and face such systemic risk?
Of course, the cheerleaders on CNBC have absolutely no clue about what is going on… and the dangers of this ignorance are too important to ignore.
Yes, there are some thoughtful, experienced journalists working at CNBC like David Faber and Steve Liesman- whose pained expression when enduring his colleagues' hyperbole tells a story in itself. And Rick Santelli continues to point to the dangers of what the Fed is doing.
Unfortunately much of the substance of Mr. Santelli's excellent reporting gets lost in his proclivity for ranting rather than reporting.
By Garrett Baldwin, Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email
The DJIA index dipped 104 points Tuesday. Why the decline? Expectations for a faster rate increase by the Federal Reserve outweighed improving economic data.
New home sales hit a seven-year high in February, a sign of surging demand in the housing market. Existing home sales were also up 1.2% in February despite bad weather.
Here are the day's top market stories - plus our new profit tip for investors...
