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yea in time 1550 or 1600 are in the cards but ( IMO ) we need a pull back first then its off to the races
what you think will happen if " big Ben " says no to Q3 in sept ?
1430 to 1460 for now
what you think ?
At a time of such strong demand for dividends and safety, the quest for a reasonable yield amidst historically low interest rates has become quite a competitive sport. With that in mind, for this installment of Investing 101, we brought in Marc Lichtenfeld, author of Get Rich With Dividends and Associate Investment Director at the Oxford Club, to discuss ways to get more for your money by investing in income-producing stocks. He provided the following three tips to improve your performance and total return.
1) Perpetual Dividend Raisers
One of the best ways to get more bang for your dividend buck is to simply get more bang — that is, to get more and more money paid to you year after year. Lichtenfeld says the universe of these so-called serial dividend raisers isn't that big. "There's about 400 companies that have a track record of at least five years [of consecutive increases], but once you get out to 10 years, you cut that number in half," he says in the attached video. And, as you might imagine, in the case of Standard & Poor's Dividend Aristocrats portfolio of companies with a 25-year track record, the list shrinks down to just 51 companies. However, Lichtenfeld warns not all of the perpetual raisers offer great yields. He suggests finding the ones that have the track record but that also authorize the biggest percentage annual increase — and pay this highest yields, too.
2) Boring Is Good
In an increasingly active marketplace, many investors have embraced a trader's mindset and have declared traditional buy-and-hold investing dead. Lichtenfeld disagrees with that notion and has devoted a chapter in his book (called Snooze Your Way to Millions) to dispel this notion and make the case for low-turnover and reinvestment. "If you bought $10k of McDonald's (MCD) in 2001, by 2011 you had $46k, assuming you reinvested the dividends," he says, adding that the hamburger giant has a 35-year streak of dividend increases.
3) Aim Higher
Right now the yield on a 10-year Treasury is about 1.4%, while the S&P 500 currently has about a 2.2% dividend yield. Generally speaking, Lichtenfeld says 4.5% is a reasonable starting yield to shoot for, and says larger yields can often be found in REITs and MLPs. "It really goes across the board," he says, pointing out that above-average yields can also be found in consumer stocks, financials, telecoms, and utilities. "You can look through a wide range of stocks and diversify your portfolio as well," he says, reminding investors that higher yields typically carry higher risks.
To be sure, dividends play an important role for the total return investor but are not the only consideration. Still, research has shown that owning a portfolio of quality stocks that have shown a commitment to shareholders via consistent dividend increase is a proven formula for long-term success.
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the good ones alway make you wait lol
vix is at 13.70
simple is alway the best
what you put out there is what you will get back
( what comes around goes around )
vix getting close to 15 (15.28 ) close to the time to start buying some shorts IMO
the other side of that coin is he does not do anything
then dollar up?
fed meeting aug 22 i think ?
funny but the dollar is getting ready for move too
thank you
yes yes yes
look at 1995 till 2000 both went up
but rest of the world needs to want into the usa both dollar and markets
are we there yet ? not sure but watching
value cheap ha ha
I picked up some wag this summer very happy with that buy
he will do the same lol so can we too
thank you
ps we have picked up so big ( big for us ) jobs too hmmm
this is all good but I still see the dollar bouncing here very soon
thanks
It's falling again this am
I didn't want to see anyone get hurt
thats all
was thinking we get a bounce on monday ? we really didnt ? hmmm
I'm not the only one with high cash
Berkshire Cash Hoard Swells as Buffett Pares Consumer Stocks
By Noah Buhayar - Aug 6, 2012 1:38 PM ET
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A)’s cash swelled in the second quarter to its highest level in a year as Chairman Warren Buffett pared bets on consumer-products stocks.
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., talks about JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s $4.4 billion trading loss at its chief investment office and the U.S. banking industry. Buffett also discusses his investment strategy and holdings, the U.S. economy and housing market, and the outlook for the euro. He speaks with Betty Liu at the the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Cash advanced 7.5 percent to $40.7 billion in the three months ended June 30, the Omaha, Nebraska-based company said in an Aug. 3 regulatory filing. Berkshire was a net seller of equities in the quarter as it cut its allocation to companies that make and distribute consumer goods while boosting holdings of financial firms and a group called “commercial, industrial and other.” Individual stocks weren’t listed in the filing.
“Why keep his old names that served a purpose for a while and have gone up,” Tom Russo, a partner at Berkshire investor Gardner Russo & Gardner, said in a phone interview. Some of the consumer stocks “have various forms of blemishes.”
Buffett, 81, has cited challenges at consumer-products firms in Berkshire’s $86.2 billion stock portfolio, including Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) and Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT) The billionaire has used his cash to build the largest stakes in firms including Wells Fargo & Co. and to expand Berkshire through acquisitions.
He has said he looks for one good buyout idea annually and told investors at his May shareholder meeting that he couldn’t come to an agreement on a potential acquisition valued at about $22 billion. Berkshire hasn’t struck a deal larger than $1 billion since its 2011 purchase of engine-additives maker Lubrizol Corp. for about $9 billion.
The extra cash adds to the ability to make an acquisition on-par with Berkshire’s largest takeover, the 2010 purchase of railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe for $26.5 billion, said Buffett biographer Andrew Kilpatrick.
‘Something Enormous’
“If an elephant comes along, he will fire,” Kilpatrick said by phone. “He’s fully equipped to do something enormous.”
Berkshire sold $3.01 billion in equities in the second quarter, while purchasing $1.85 billion in stock, according to the filing. The cost basis of the consumer portfolio slipped to $9.84 billion from $12.3 billion.
The figure for the financial-firm holdings climbed to $17.7 billion from $17.1 billion, and the commercial-industrial group advanced to $23.7 billion from $23.3 billion. The data show that Buffett probably isn’t building another large stake, as he did last year with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), Kilpatrick said.
Buffett pared Berkshire’s Kraft holdings in 2010 and continued to cut it in four consecutive quarters to 78 million shares through March 31, according to regulatory filings. The billionaire called the foodmaker’s takeover of Cadbury Plc and the sale of its pizza brands in 2010 “dumb” at Berkshire’s shareholder’s meeting that year. Kraft has advanced 37 percent since his remarks through Aug. 3 to $40.51.
J&J Stake
The billionaire held 29 million J&J shares as of March 31, down from 42.6 million at the end of 2010. The New Brunswick, New Jersey-based maker of health-care products advanced 5.4 percent this year to $69.12 on Aug. 3.
J&J was ordered in April to pay more than $1.1 billion in fines after an Arkansas jury found the firm misled doctors and patients about the risks of antipsychotic medication Risperdal. The company has also struggled with recalls of artificial hip implants and over-the-counter medicines.
“It’s still got a lot of wonderful products and it’s got a wonderful balance sheet and all of that, but there have been too many mistakes,” Buffett told CNBC in a Feb. 27 interview.
Razors, Detergent
Berkshire reduced its holdings of P&G by 4.6 percent in the first quarter to 73.3 million shares. The maker of Gillette razors and Tide laundry detergent has had difficulty raising prices for some products as consumers consider less expensive alternatives, Buffett told the cable news station in May. The stock is down 1.8 percent this year to $65.50 on Aug. 3.
P&G Chief Executive Officer Robert McDonald is working to prove that his pricing and plan to cut cost cuts will be enough to improve results. Last month, Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management LP took a $1.8 billion stake in P&G, and people familiar with the matter said he plans to push for leadership changes.
Buffett’s firm has until next week to file a list of its U.S. equity holdings as of June 30 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Representatives for J&J, Kraft and Cincinnati, Ohio-based P&G declined to comment. Buffett didn’t return a message left with an assistant.
Combs, Weschler
Buffett probably didn’t cut his stake in Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. (KO), Berkshire’s largest holding, according to Russo. The billionaire said in June that he added to a stake in Wal- Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) The retailer plunged to $57.36 in April after the New York Times said the company bribed Mexican officials to speed expansion.
Wal-Mart was “very attractive compared to other big companies” when the price was $58 or $59, Buffett told Betty Liu in a July 13 interview on Bloomberg Television. The retailer climbed to $74.55 on Aug. 3.
Some of the extra cash may be distributed to Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, former hedge fund managers whom Buffett hired in the past two years to help oversee investments, said David Kass, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Buffett told Liu last month that his deputies will probably oversee about $4 billion apiece, compared with $2.75 billion at the beginning of this year.
Derivative Bets
Buffett may also use the funds to exit some derivatives bets, Kass said in a phone interview yesterday. Berkshire struck a deal after June 30 to cancel about half of the $16 billion in notional protection it sold against municipal and state bond defaults, according to the filing. Buffett’s firm may have to pay the counterparty to retire the obligations, Kass said.
Derivatives bets have made Berkshire’s earnings more volatile, because they’re marked to market. Net income slid 9 percent in the second quarter to $3.11 billion on widening losses from separate derivatives tied to equity markets. Operating earnings, which exclude some investment results, climbed on gains at the railroad and insurance units.
Buffett wrote in a February letter to shareholders that new rules around collateral have made derivatives less attractive. The wagers will probably shrink under the company’s next leaders, he said at the annual meeting in May.
To contact the reporter on this story: Noah Buhayar in New York at nbuhayar@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dan Kraut at dkraut2@bloomberg.net
yes lol
you see what the dollar did today ?
http://www.finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=DX
the fed is the "big bank "
dont fight the fed
know what they are doing and ride with them
dont try to fight them
in this game to win is to make money not to be right
sad but true
Four-year silver investigation may be dropped: FT
Reuters – 5 hours ago.. .
LONDON (Reuters) - A four-year investigation into possible manipulation of the silver market looks likely to be dropped by U.S. regulators, the Financial Times reported on Monday, although a U.S. official said a decision is only expected by October.
The newspaper cited three people familiar with the situation as saying the regulator failed to find enough evidence to support a legal case.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission first announced that it was investigating "complaints of misconduct in the silver market" in September 2008, following a barrage of allegations of manipulation from a group of precious metals investors.
"While we have not acted on our silver investigation, I am hopeful and expect the commission to do so in September or October," Bart Chilton, a CFTC commissioner, told Reuters in an emailed response to the FT report.
"I continue to believe, consistent with my previous statements and information from the public, that there have been devious efforts related to moving the price of silver.
"There have also been silver and gold market anomalies outside of the silver investigate window that have raised, and continue to raise, market concerns."
The CFTC's five commissioners have not yet formally determined the outcome of the investigation but may drop the case because it doesn't have sufficient evidence, according to people familiar with the situation, cited by the FT.
"The investigation has not reached its conclusion," a CFTC spokesman was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
(Reporting by Stephen Mangan and Alexandra Alper; Editing by Eric Meijer and Miral Fahmy)
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never give up
this is great thanks
the divd abt pay's is nice too it goes up every year
dont need to watch the stock any more just the growth of the divd
if we get under 80 not sure how low she going
I think somewhere from 81 to 82 you may see her turn
that fits into my 1426 on the s+p
nice going there
yes me too :)
took some time to get my head around that one lol
I like those last two you got there
nice going
hello AD
great to see you posting
working very hard on day job
but as far as the markets go we (IMO ) have got a big move coming not really sure if its up or down at this time may take some time to show itself
so I have sold a lot and sitting on cash
still have core stocks
but sitting on my hands waiting and watching
I would like to see 1425 on s+p be taken out to the up side but afraid we may just hit or head and take a fall
made good profit this year so I'm waiting for now not wanting to risk it at this time
what you thinking ?
http://www.alsosprachanalyst.com/economy/chart-rubbish-indicator-points-to-sharp-slowdown-in-us-economic-activities.html
with food going up and gas staying up
thats just like a tax on us
the dollar in pull back
under 84 again
food!! hmm ok stocks ? syy ?
go to a monthly chart
look at adx 14 and a macd 12,26,9
last time both turned + like now was 1997
dollar made a 35% + move from that point
market was going up then too ( .com ) till 2000
what is todays .com ?
natural gas ? maybe ?
looking for things on sale
my thinking we are not at the bottom yet
out of banks and ford
watching the dividend aristtocrats list for my next buys
great food for thought
thanks