Ten years ago, Asian equities paid pitifully low dividends following the bull market in the late 1990s. But that’s all starting to change as many markets in the region now offer higher dividend payouts than the S&P 500 and many European equity markets…
Honing in on small cap companies, Jim Nelson of the Penny Sleuth introduces to us five of his favorite penny stocks for retirement. Jim recommends that we invest like a “one percenter.”
Laura Cadden says Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:VNDA) is on the verge of a big breakthrough with a drug to treat sleep disorders. She says investors that buy the stock at or below 75 cents will be in line for double-digit gains.
When you have a market that’s in the process of hammering out a bottom (as I believe we have right now), my “best investing idea” involves carefully adding some of the very best small cap stocks to your portfolio.
The broad market tone is mildly optimistic as another week comes to a close. The Dow, the S&P, and the Nasdaq 100 have all broken above clear resistance levels; the Dow having done so more convincingly than the S&P, with the Nasdaq’s breakout the strongest of the three.