Income
Income stocks pop big time
Today was a day for long stock investors to sit back and enjoy a little. Sure, we are still 20% in the hole from the last couple of weeks but we made up a third of the losses today. I was especially impressed with the performance of the high yield stocks I track and watch. [...]
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: 19.60 0.00 0.00%) 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 [...]
