It’s that time again – the monthly consumer-inflation report will be released July 13, and the numbers are expected to be ugly. If you are an investor who wants current income, not only do you need higher yields to help counteract price increases, you need some surety that your dividends won’t be cut if the…
If you consider yourself an electric car holdout, think again. Manufacturers are creating futuristic EV models that could turn heads and hearts into converts. In the past decade, Tesla TSLA, -6.55% paved the way for public acceptance and market demand for all-electric vehicles. This phenomenon, coupled with environmental pressure from government agencies, has motivated many…
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Price: The 2022 Nissan Kicks starts at 19,700. The 2022 Nissan Kicks is a subcompact crossover SUV. As long as an SUV is defined as something with a slightly raised driving position and a tailgate instead of a trunk— a high-riding hatchback might also be a useful description of the Kicks. Any desires of heading…
US drivers had high hopes that the historic release of oil from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve would help ease triple-digit prices of crude oil and reduce gasoline prices at the pump, but the costs for both have seen little relief. More than three months after the Biden administration announced in late March the biggest-ever…
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It’s never really a bear market until all the stragglers get taken out and shot. So it was just a matter of time before energy stocks, the big winners for much of the first half of this year, got nailed. Now the Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund XLE, -1.71% and the SPDR S&P Oil &…
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In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a host of major US corporations described their efforts to exit the country. With the war about to enter its sixth month, the Moral Rating Agency has released new data surveying 114 of the largest companies in the world involved with Russia at the time of its…
It’s time for your teen to buy a car. You’ll want to set some ground rules. The last thing you want is to put your child into the driver’s seat of the wrong car. The best way to avoid disagreements is to set clear expectations and boundaries with your teen before the car browsing begins….
The natural gas that lights popular gas stoves for both home and professional cooks contains low concentrations of several pollutants and chemicals linked to cancer, a new study has found. The study, by the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and published this week in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is the latest…
Energy stocks have been the star investment this year. Now it’s time to sell them and electrify your portfolio before investors once again focus on the industry’s long-term headwinds. There are a host of headwinds that could threaten the surge: rising recession risk, consumer backlash from the high price of gasoline, and the push to…
This year’s stock price declines to make an increasing number of stocks with high dividend yields of at least 5%. Below is a screen that highlights 29 that appear to be able to raise their payouts considerably. There are different approaches to selecting dividend stocks. For example, John Kornitzer, who co-manages the Buffalo Flexible Income…
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