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The bond market is still in the doldrums, but this week we urge investors who are approaching retirement to heed the lessons of past bear markets.

Investing Daily Printable PDF I was born in 1958, when “Ike” was in the Oval Office, Fidel Castro was fighting Batista in Cuba, Desi was fighting Lucy on TV, and Ed Sullivan’s cameramen were only allowed to film Elvis Presley from the waist up. Throughout most of my baby boomer existence, mainstream society viewed marijuana as “the devil’s weed.” For the counterculture of the 1960s, smoking pot was an illegal act of rebellion. And today? In many cities throughout America and Canada, it’s as easy to get marijuana delivered to your front door as pizza. When I was a teenager, m...

Investing Daily Thirteen months ago, I named Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) as a stock to own while “The Remote Economy Takes Off.” The overall stock market was plunging in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Most businesses either shut down or drastically reduced their operations. However, a small subset of companies saw their fortunes rise as consumers rapidly adapted to all forms of online commerce. On the day that article was published, NFLX closed near $336. Four months later, it peaked above $555. That works out to a gain of nearly 60% in just four months. At that time, companies that bene...

Investing Daily Banks are back, baby. Bank earnings tend to establish the tone for the season and serve as a barometer of the overall economy. After salting away billions for possible loan losses in 2020, banks are expressing confidence in their ability to cope with defaults, a clear indication that stronger economic growth lies ahead in 2021. This past week, 15 of the 22 companies in the S&P 500 that reported actual earnings for the first quarter of 2021 were in the financials sector. Most of these companies were in the banking segment, including the big leaders JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), ...

Investing Daily Printable PDF A few weeks ago, I named infrastructure stocks “The Best Sector Bet This Year.” President Biden had just introduced a $2 trillion proposal that included a wide range of spending initiatives. Republicans have counter-proposed an $800 billion spending plan that is narrower in scope. It’s too soon to tell how those negotiations will turn out. However, it is probably safe to assume that some sort of spending bill will eventually be approved this year. In that article, I used the iShares Global Infrastructure ETF (IGF) as an example of one way to play this ...