The Chum Bucket

Utilities, real estate, consumer staples. Long considered the defensive play in equities when uncertainty rises.  Looking back on 2020, thou...

Wow.  It's been a while since I last posted.  Looking at the date of my last article, like four years!  It's time to reengage.  I...

The period following the November presidential election was, by many measures, extraordinary. Equities soared, bonds and interest rate se...

Regrets for taking so long between posts. I plan to be better about posting next year...get more exercise...and more sleep. Before mo...

JP Morgan, Citi and the tarnished Wells Fargo all reported third quarter earnings this morning. The press was ecstatic. CNBC's origin...

Poor, poor Trump. As successful as he may have been in the business world, he’s clearly out of his league when it comes to Washington. Tr...

The search for high dividend yielding stocks continues as investors seek alternatives to the abysmal yields on fixed income securities. A...

With talk of a Fed rate hike at its September meeting increasing, following comments of Stanley Fischer and other Fed governors at Jack...

The Fed is hosting its 2016 annual academic conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this weekend.  Fed Chair, Janet Yellen is scheduled to sp...

We've all heard this expression, to refer to stocks clawing gains to new highs amidst a market of doubters. It's contrarian logic...