Income

Inergy L.P. increasese dividend (again) stock falls.

Inergy, L.P. | Investor Relations | Press Release.
A small piece in the further evidence of the current insanity in the stock market. Inergy L.P. (NRGY: 14.27 +0.05 +0.35%) a nice, growing propane distribution company announced yesterday their 28th consecutive dividend increase. Yet the stock managed to lose 11ยข. NRGY now yields a staggering 18.4%!
Inergy is [...]


A fresh look at shipping companies

Shipping Lines Sail Uncertain Seas - WSJ.com.
The article linked above from WSJ.com (subscription required) started me to think about the ongoing prospects for the shipping related companies I follow. The gist of the article is that container shipping rates have fallen up to 75% reaching unprofitable levels. The Baltic Dry Index has fallen by 2/3 [...]


New Opportunities Portfolio rolls out

The new portfolio tracking information is now up on the Opportunities Portfolio page. The effective date of the new tracking is October 1, 2008 and the initial stock positions were entered at the Sept. 30 closing price. I was a little worried that re-starting the portfolio at that time would look opportunistic because the market [...]


Income Portfolio quarterly results

Another calender quarter is behind us and it was one of the ugliest in my memory as far as stock investing goes. The market showed tremendous fluctuations with record daily gains and losses, but finished the quarter down significantly with the S&P500 down over 12% for the 3 months and the NASDAQ off almost 10%.
During [...]


Reduction in Financial Preferred ETF

As I am now actively managing this site’s Income Portfolio, I am trying to decide how much of the trading I want to share in posts. Right now I am leaning towards putting up a notice when I make a major position change or something similar. Today I decided to reduce the position in the [...]