Archive of entries posted on August 2016

Knowledge is Power: Fordlandia, Bond ETFs, Weapons R Us Edition

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Oil’s Price Rise Boosts All Equity Sectors, But One (S&P Indexology Blog) Costly cures: the US drug pricing conundrum (Schroder’s) and  Cut Health Costs or Help Workers. You Can’t Do Both. (Bloomberg) Lottery madness (Statistical Ideas Blog) Five charts that tell you when the stock market bubble will burst (Money Observer) Demystifying bond ETFs (Fidelity) Lost …

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Real Estate to Become a New Sector in the S&P 500 Index

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The S&P 500 currently is dividend into 10 sectors. This is about to change with Real Estate being added as the 11th sector. Real estate will be split from the financial sector and added as a sector of its own. No new companies will be added to the index. The existing sector composition of the S&P …

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The Top 10 Foreign Holders of U.S. Debt

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The current Total Public Debt Outstanding is over $19 Trillion or $19,428,079,384,183.27 to be more precise according to the Treasury Department, Out of this debt mountain, the debt held by the public is over $14 Trillion. The total US debt held by foreign holders stood at $6,281 billion as of June, 2016 according to Treasury …

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Contribution of Dividends to Total Return in S&P 500 1990-2015

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The contribution of dividends to total returns is significant. In decades when stocks yielded negative returns the return from dividends offer a cushion to the overall portfolio returns. The chart below shows the contribution of dividends to the total return of the S&P 500 by decade: Click to enlarge Source: Dividends Matter, Rational Advisors From the above …

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