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#Dividend Increases: Week 41 $ADC, $AOS, $HPQ, $NWN, $THO buff.ly/48SKCNp #investing

Tesla $TSLA earnings were released after hours. $ EPS: expected 0.74, reported 0.66 ❌ Miss -10.81% Revenue: expected $24.38B, reported $23.35B ❌ Miss -4.23%

Mr Market was in a bad mood today. At the close of regular trading the S&P 500 is down by 1.34%. We’ve seen better days. On the upside: This means that there are some stocks that might have an “on sale” sign on them. Just have another look! #investing #personalfinance

@RachelReevesMP .@RachelReevesMP In 2020 oil companies lost billions. No special tax breaks were offered then. Special taxes now would be pure communism: downside to those who carry the risk, upside to those who didn't carry any risk at all. Not the way to incentivize new investments.

12 years of the Tories have led to soaring costs, low growth and falling living standards. And yet despite this and booming oil profits, they still refuse to accept Labour’s plan for a proper windfall tax on energy producers to help foot the bill. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Q: Can I Trade an Index as an Asset? For example I would like to trade in NASDAQ. How do I do that? - This post gives an answer and gives more details how to approach this topic mannionmoney.substack.com/p/q-can-i-trad… #ETF #PersonalFinance #Investing

Bad Timing: Why trying to time the market is a bad idea and a suggestion what to do instead to improve investment results mannionmoney.substack.com/p/bad-timing?s… #investing #personalfinance

Twitter's board is considering adopting a "poison pill" measure that would protect the company from hostile acquisition bids like the one launched by Elon Musk trib.al/Faeab4d

@AccssbleInvstor Never owned Kodak

Time to confess... who bought $KODK at $60 😂 #KodakPharmaceuticals

Differences Between Brokers And Advisers: Suitability Vs. Fiduciary Standards: Paying for advice, it is critical to understand how the person providing advice gets paid and what their responsibilities are to the investor #4a9bf51b25b5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">forbes.com/sites/forbesfi… via @forbes #Assetmanagement

Dividend Stock Review: "A. O. Smith Corp (AOS) is a Dividend Champion with an impressive 26-year history of increasing their dividends. The last increase came in October 2019 when they increased their dividend by 9.1%" engineermyfreedom.com/dividend-stock… @EMF_01 #DividendAristocrats $AOS

Although this is for India, the content may be relevant to markets in other countries, too.

@TalkMarkets Or perhaps we should be concerned that stocks are not trading a lot lower... Given P/E ratios of 25 or even much, much higher, and given Covid-19 impact on earnings is not in those numbers yet, shouldn't stocks be at a much lower level?

Should We Be Concerned #Stocks Aren't Trading A Lot Higher? talkmarkets.com/content/stocks…

Banks’ trading bonanza just keeps going — markets units to see 20% revenue surge fnlondon.com/articles/banks…

Sell signal for Nucor Corporation (NUE). We reduced our position at avg share price of USD 44.56. Unit costs USD 39.63. Gain of 12.44% for 5 days. Not bad at all. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… $NUE #NUE #Assetmanagement

@financialtrave Yes, cost is easily overlooked. For our decisions we usually look at results after fees and tax. Within reason we're willing to accept (higher) fees if warranted for better performance. Often high fee funds do not deserve the higher costs, though.

@Chad_Shoop In our view it appears as if even with a new stimulus package many stocks and the market in general are too expensive. P/E ratio of 25 or even more needs a really good justification. Earnings hit for companies due to Covid-19 is still largely unclear.

Nice jump in the #StockMarket futures after reports of an #infrastructure bill. It's great, but we haven't heard anything about a more immediate stimulus package for businesses and consumers. If a round two stimulus package gets passed, stocks will surge even higher.

Sell signal for Otis Worldwide Corporation (OTIS). We reduced our position at avg price of USD 57.41. Unit costs were USD 45.35. Gain of 26.59%. More details at optarix.blogspot.com/2020/06/reduce… $OTIS #OTIS #assetmanagement

@Schroders What happens if it turns into an L-shaped one, i.e. long-winded recovery with lots of volatility along the way? Can we rule this out from today's perspective? And what would that mean for everyone's investment approach?

We've gone from predicting a V-shaped recovery to a U-shape, given the difficulties of lifting lockdown. Read more from Keith Wade, Chief Economist & Strategist: ow.ly/gAmv50A8NOQ #economicviews #perspective

Retail traders are beating hedge funds: here are the shares they picked fnlondon.com/articles/retai…

@Schuldensuehner While understandable that the Fed is taking this step, it also runs the risk of keeping companies alive that could at best be described as "zombies". As a consequence, it seems that credit insurance is yet another distorted financial market. As investor, beware of those zombies.

The cost of credit insurance for both investment-grade and high-yield European corp debt fell the most in 2mths after the Fed unveiled plans to buy individual corp bonds under its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility instead of only exchange-traded funds. (via BBG)