In Search Of Canadian Dividends: Part II [View article]
I bailed out of Canada when EWC went south last year. Thanks for renewing my interest. The chart on XEI looks much better. Thanks for your chart on individual companies. I would hope that someone could do something on the order of what boomboom99 is suggesting as I find the research on Canada stocks daunting and need some help in that regard.
When To Buy And Sell Dividend Growth Stocks [View article]
Quite a bit of thuzzy finking going on here from paragraph 2 of article on... My head is spinning. TIming your value investing aimed at dividend growth?? oh, my.
After great ideas in "Fooled by Randomness" and the black sway idea, Taleb seems to have gotten so esoteric that he has confused himself to the point he is like the rest of us. Maybe his fame was and illustration of randomness after all.
Why You Shouldn't Think Of The S&P 500 As A Diversified Basket Of 500 Companies [View article]
Good article, Tim, and lots of good info. Another perspective as to why the S&P 500 index became the predominant vehicle may be as simple as: IT WAS EASY and CHEAP to do. The SPY doesn't have to respond to changes in stock prices, it already reflects the change in cap weight. So almost no trading is involved. These two characteristics help to explain how it became popular with Vanguard and with investors also. That is was not an indication of all stocks behavior in the Market was beside the point. It was really an indicator of BIG stocks like the DJIA. In contrast, the RSP has higher costs because those costs are incurred in keeping the correct balance in stock ownership. I, unlike the other reader above, am not particularly concerned with the higher costs since I know why they are there and that the bottom line is still generally better than SPY even with its inherent lower costs. If you want to know what part of the Market is participating in a rally or downdraft just look at the difference between RSP and SPY!
Why You Should Hold These Troubled Blue-Chip Stocks [View article]
David Fish's is also 22.8 in November. This just shows how careful one must be in coming to conclusions with something as simple as P/E ratio. In any case a little rich for me.
Is Windows 8 making a bad situation worse for the (non-Apple) PC industry? NPD believes U.S. retail sales of Windows gear is down 21% Y/Y since Oct. 26, the day Win. 8 launched. Notebooks -24% and desktops -9%. Also, thanks to inventory-clearing and perhaps also a cautious enterprise response, Win. 8 has only made up 58% of Windows device sales since launch time, compared with 83% for Windows 7 in its first 4 weeks. 6% of Win. 8 notebook sales involved touchscreens, and ASPs rose to $477 from $433 in the year-ago period. (40M licenses) [View news story]
A major screw-up for the softies. They made it too confusing: RT?? What's that? Just call it Windows Touch and don't confuse us with an upgrade of a just fine Windows 7.
As Intel announces a CEO transition, Paul Thurrott reports Windows 8 PC sales have missed Microsoft's (MSFT) internal projections. He adds Microsoft is blaming the inability of OEMs to execute, though like others, he thinks that's far from the only culprit, and calls the OS a "Frankenstein’s monster mix of old and new that hides a great desktop upgrade under a crazy Metro front-end." Separately, Newegg says its Windows 8 sales are slow, though notebook demand is beginning to improve. [View news story]
This appears to be a major blunder by softies. Too confusing for the public target. They should have been happy to just copy Apple with the touch thing, after all the history of MSFT from the very beginning has been to copy success, not make innovation.
Someone who is presenting an asset allocation to the tenth of a percent has been smoking something, and it is not camels. Run, don't walk from this guy. I realize, Roger that is not the point, but just looking at numbers sometimes reveals more than it may seem.
Dividend ETFs: How To Select A Winner [View article]
Have these funds shown dividend growth over the years? If I bought these 5 or 8 years ago, would I be getting more income now than when I bought them? We can look for dividend growth with stocks, but how about the ETFs?
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In Search Of Canadian Dividends: Part II [View article]
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Why You Shouldn't Think Of The S&P 500 As A Diversified Basket Of 500 Companies [View article]
I, unlike the other reader above, am not particularly concerned with the higher costs since I know why they are there and that the bottom line is still generally better than SPY even with its inherent lower costs.
If you want to know what part of the Market is participating in a rally or downdraft just look at the difference between RSP and SPY!
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Why You Should Hold These Troubled Blue-Chip Stocks [View article]
Is Windows 8 making a bad situation worse for the (non-Apple) PC industry? NPD believes U.S. retail sales of Windows gear is down 21% Y/Y since Oct. 26, the day Win. 8 launched. Notebooks -24% and desktops -9%. Also, thanks to inventory-clearing and perhaps also a cautious enterprise response, Win. 8 has only made up 58% of Windows device sales since launch time, compared with 83% for Windows 7 in its first 4 weeks. 6% of Win. 8 notebook sales involved touchscreens, and ASPs rose to $477 from $433 in the year-ago period. (40M licenses) [View news story]
As Intel announces a CEO transition, Paul Thurrott reports Windows 8 PC sales have missed Microsoft's (MSFT) internal projections. He adds Microsoft is blaming the inability of OEMs to execute, though like others, he thinks that's far from the only culprit, and calls the OS a "Frankenstein’s monster mix of old and new that hides a great desktop upgrade under a crazy Metro front-end." Separately, Newegg says its Windows 8 sales are slow, though notebook demand is beginning to improve. [View news story]
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You got that right, Roger.