Stocks usually tend to outperform cash and other asset types over the long-term measured in 5 years or more. The performance gap between stocks and cash over decades is even more wider due to the effect of compounding returns due to dividend reinvestment. While holding cash in a savings account offers safety and peace of mind, …
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Stocks in the consumer staples sector have elevated P/E ratios today relative to the market. This is because investors looking for safety and reliable income stream have piled into these stocks over the past few years. Market volatility and ultra-low interest rates only added more fuel to the solid rise of consumer staples stocks. Companies in …
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European equities are currently at a discount to their US peers.In the past, whenever this scenario occurred European stocks have played catch and have eliminated this discount as investors gobbled up shares that were undervalued. However that is not the case in the past few years.European stocks continue -to lag US stocks for a number of reasons. …
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The manufacturing industry is one of the hard-hit industries in terms of employment for many decades now. In the years after World War II average Americans with low education and no college degree could live a comfortable middle-class life by getting a job in a local factory. That is no longer possible. Today most such …
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