The financial media is abuzz with articles, portfolio managers, and financial pundits touting the benefits of dividend strategies. The supposed argument is that dividends are the golden key to long term investment outperformance.

This article covers the prospects of Oil majors like ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) (NYSE:RDS.B), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), BP (NYSE:BP) and for some in renewables.

One of the best trades of my career didn’t involve stocks at all. In 2001, the European Union was beginning its full rollout of its new currency, the euro.

In our previous tutorial Loops in R: Usage and Alternatives , we discussed one of the most important constructs in programming: the loop.  Eventually we deprecated the usage of loops in R in favor of vectorized functions.

This is an introductory post about using apply, sapply and lapply, best suited for people relatively new to R or unfamiliar with these functions.

There are tons of resources to help you learn the different aspects of R, and as a beginner this can be overwhelming. It’s also a dynamic language and rapidly changing, so it’s important to keep up with the latest tools and technologies.

In this tutorial we will have a look at how you can write a basic for loop in R. It is aimed at beginners, and if you’re not yet familiar with the basic syntax of the R language we recommend you to first have a look at this introductory R tutorial.

Currently, SPY adjusted for dividends is 3.4% below its record high. Last week I wrote, “Sentiment charts are now “mixed” indicating roughly equal odds for up or down.” While 3.

The factor of the likely harvest reduction in Brazil dominates the corn market at the moment. While the USDA forecasts the harvest at the level of 82 million tons, the local consulting companies expect it to reduce to the level of 75.8 million tons.