The S&P 500 is up by 16.45% YTD on price basis. Many sectors have performed extremely well this year. Let’s take a look at the returns of the Class I railroad stocks in this post. The best performing railroad so this year is Norfolk Southern(NSC) which has soared by about 25% based on just price …
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One of the simplest ways to build wealth in equity investing is to invest in dividend stocks especially dividend payers that grow the dividend rate each year consistently. Dividends provide a stable income stream and the power of compounding with reinvestment usually leads to astonishing returns over many years. I have written many times about …
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Nvidia (NVDA) recently became the world’s valuable company by market capitalization beating tech giant Microsoft(MSFT). Of the top 10 companies in the world by market cap, 8 are American as the table below shows. The only two companies from outside of the US in this list are Taiwanese semiconductor giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM) and Saudi …
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Bitcoin has had an incredible in the past few years. Last month the crypto asset crossed $111,000 and was briefly the fifth largest asset in the world. Currently Bitcoin is trading at $104,171. This put Bitcoin as the seventh largest asset globally as shown in the table below. Gold is the number asset at over …
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The US average effective tariff rate has reached the highest level since 1909 with the raft new tariffs announced by President Trump according to Yale Budget Lab. According to their estimates, the rate has reached 22.5%. Frank Holmes at U.S. Global Investors notes 1909 is the year President Howard Taft proposed the idea of an …
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