My latest: How to Invest in International Stocks
Sharing some tips on how and why to add international stocks to your portfolio because if you don’t have them, it’s time.
The Price You Pay: Valuation Evaluation by Charles Schwab Asset Management
Corporate earnings are one thing, but what multiple of earnings (valuation) investors are willing to pay is another matter. Valuations reflect sentiment. By most measures, the market is expensive. Inflation impacts valuations, and the market likes plus-or-minus 2%. If we enter a bigger downturn, expect more pain with the tech heavy mega caps.
Rising anti-American sentiment is not great for the American brand abroad by TKer
While modest so far, a boycott America movement and tourists canceling U.S. trips could lower GDP and add to short-term market volatility.
Bond Ladder ETFs Can Help Investors Climb a Steepening Yield Curve by Morningstar
Putting money in ETFs with staggered maturities can preserve and even grow wealth in a higher-interest-rate environment.
The Five Things You Shouldn’t Tell ChatGPT by The Wall Street Journal
Identify information, medical results, financial information, log-ins, and proprietary corporate info.
Book Recommendation
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
Covers Elvis’s rise until his military induction in 1958.
Boston Corner
What’s driving secret Boston-area home sales
