Let me warn you up front: You probably won’t like today’s recommendation. It has nothing to do with the stock market. Today, I am going to recommend that you dip your toe into a different market—and buy bonds. I bet not one in 100 readers of this magazine gives the bond market as much attention as he gives to the stock market. And it’s fashionable these days to talk about all bonds as “bad” investments.
Dividends “pay you” to own a stock…they can give you a regular income and they can help you pick profitable, mature companies that generate lots of cash. My favorite way to “get paid” dividends is in the Brazilian power-generating sector.
Last week, I was at an investor conference in Switzerland. As is typical these days, one of the big topics was investing in the emerging markets.
As you know, the last six months haven’t been stellar for the emerging markets. But what you’ve got to understand is that you can’t base your investing decisions on what’s happened in the past. Because the markets don’t care about the past. They care about what will happen in the future.
I’ll be blunt. I have no time for Communists. Theoretically, Communism is just plain dumb. But on a practical level, it’s even worse.
Although you wouldn’t know it from tuning into CNBC or opening the Wall Street Journal, the world is actually in a new “super cycle” of growth.
The trend is up. This may sound odd. After all, a lot of investors are pretty gloomy these days. In America, house prices continue to head south… about 1 in 10 people remain unemployed… and Washington is in disarray over what to do about its spiraling debt problem.
Earlier this week, I talked about the most important big trend in the world: the growing pressure on our finite natural resources as populations and wealth grow in the emerging economies. Today, I want to tell about how to play this trend.
What happens next? The answer is nobody knows. But as investors, we’re always trying to answer this elusive question.
My job takes me all over the world. So far this year, I’ve traveled on your behalf to visit Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Brazil. And we’re not even at the halfway point yet!
At International Living Investor we have a simple mission: to help you profit from the world outside of America’s borders. And to do that we look at three specific types of investment.
Things have turned ugly for the dollar again. As I told you on Monday, the dollar has been enjoying a short–term rally…rising against other world currencies.
I’ve been beating the drum on commodities lately. My message: The recent plunge in prices would be short lived. The long-term trend for higher prices remains intact.
To hear the mainstream media tell it, the commodities bubble has burst. Don’t you believe it. Commodities prices will be back. In fact, 12 months to 24 months from now, gold, silver and other commodities will be trading at higher prices than they were just a few weeks ago – when they were trading at record levels.
There are three main routes into overseas markets. 1) You can invest in overseas stocks (or in domestic stocks that make a large portion of their profits from high-growth overseas markets).
Successful overseas investing all comes down to the “integrity” of each country’s business system. You can get a good idea of this by looking at the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, which is published every year.
It’s official: The end of the “Age of America” will happen in 2016. That’s when, according the latest forecasts from the IMF, China’s economy will surpass America’s.
The U.S. debt crisis became even more urgent when Standard & Poor’s finally downgraded its outlook for U.S. debt. Of the 17 countries that S&P has rated AAA, the U.S. is the only sovereign that carries a negative outlook.
What’s happening in Europe should be a wake-up call for America. Over the weekend, Finnish voters gave a big boost to its euro-skeptic True Finns party. The party says Finland should stop funding Europe’s “squanderers” – Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
Staring at a chalkboard behind the reception desk at my hotel in Campo Grande last night, my Brazilian friend Renato Roscoe let out an audible “tssst. The board showed Brazil’s currency, the real, at R$1.58 versus the dollar. “It’s hard to keep track these days,” said Renato. “The real keeps getting stronger against the dollar. This is crazy.”
House Republicans are steamrolling President Obama to submit three pending free-trade deals. This is great news for the three key emerging markets involved.
On Saturday, I shared with you the first three of my five simple investing rules that can dramatically boost your performance and potentially beat the stock market by following five simple rules.
Most investors operate on some variation of the “set it and forget it strategy.” And that’s why – more often than not – they’re surprised by the terrible things that happen to their money when the stock market stumbles.
The price of “stuff” is going up. Gold hit a new high this week of $1,474 an ounce. Brent crude oil is trading above $125 a barrel. And silver broke through $40 an ounce.
I recently came across some “intel” on China. It comes via a source I met while I was on my recent investment scouting trip to Southeast Asia.
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