Some investors love high-yielding dividend stocks. Yet historical performance shows that this investment style often disappoints with regard to total return. A spin on high yield investing can be found in the white paper High Yield, Low Payout by Credit Suisse.

A few months ago a reader point me out this new way of connecting R and Excel. I don’t know for how long this has been around, but I never came across it and I’ve never seen any blog post or article about it.

Previously I had written about a list of Don’ts that was listed in Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. A classic investment book that is left out on most reading lists. Get the entire 10-part series on Warren Buffett in PDF.

In late February The Wall Street Journal reported about a trend toward slowing dividend growth and increasing dividend cuts in the United States.

Five years ago I took a look at Household FOR and DSR (Debt Service Ratio) as published by the Federal Reserve, and saw reason to look for annual returns of 16.4% on the S&P 500 for the next 5 years.

Step one: stop talking. From that friend in need to your nightmare colleague, here’s how to hear and make a difference A close friend was going through a terrible time this summer.

The internet can be a beautiful and horrible place at the same time, and it isn’t weird to sometimes feel like you want to leave — there’s wasn’t an easy way out, until now. Swedish developers Wille Dahlbo and Linus Unnebäck created Deseat.

In a research report published at the beginning of this week, Todd Castagno, equity strategist at Morgan Stanley Research questioned the $2.5 trillion headline figure, declaring that, “only 40% of this amount, or~$1 trillion, is available in the form of cash and marketable securities.

Reading data from google sheets into R is something you imagine should be really simple, but often is anything but. However, package googlesheets goes a long way to solving this problem. Let’s crack on with an example.

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