Matt Hibbard is Money Morning’s income specialist.
With nearly three decades in the markets, Matt has traded just about every asset class there is. The one thing that has stuck with him over this time is a very simple premise. That is, it’s the cash a company generates that ultimately determines its value.
Sure, some stocks might fly away to multi-digit gains. But unless these companies can convert the ‘story’ into real money, the market will eventually find them out. And when that happens, the share price quickly falls back to Earth.
That’s why, over at Total Income, Matt is on the hunt for the next generation of dividend-payers. Stocks that should be able to pay their shareholders reliable and rising dividends into the future.
Matt is also the editor of Options Trader, where he shows subscribers how to use basic options strategies to generate income. This is income they can generate on top of regular dividend payments.
Matt doesn’t play the prediction game, where the aim is to be proven ‘right’. Instead, his goal is to generate as much income as he can for his subscribers, irrespective of whether the market is going up or down.
Oil market has become a crowded trade. Any correction in the oil price could see a swag of hedge funds selling to lock in profits. And that is what we saw this week as oil had its biggest price drop in more than two years.
For over a year, shares in our big four banks have been trending down. Go back even further, and their share prices have barely moved in a decade. In May 2017, Australia’s largest bank (and biggest stock), Commonwealth Bank of Australia [ASX:CBA], got within a whisker of $88. Fast forward to June 2018, CBA’s share price traded below $68 — a fall of around 23%. It’s not just CBA feeling the pinch, though.
News of the downgrade saw Gateway’s shares fall from around $2 down to under $1.70, before recovering to $1.80. Despite the fall, it is now apparent that others have been running the ruler over Gateway’s business. Not just one, but two international investors are fighting to take control of the business.
You could never accuse those who wrote the legislation to establish the RBA in 1959 of lacking lofty ambitions. What gets lost, however, is one key word...
Have you ever seen a company report a big profit, only for the share price to fall? Or a share price rallying, despite announcing a profit downgrade?
While ASX offers the SPI 200 indexes are a way to gauge investment performance, they have also become a product to trade.
It’s been a topsy turvy ride for shareholders in Australia’s largest telco, Telstra [ASX:TLS] over the last 12 months. Why? Find out 
Speculation about whether Australia’s property market is in a bubble never goes away. But, as we noted, it all depends on where you live.
Barely a day goes by without yet another call for the great Australian property ‘bubble’ to burst. Of course, not everyone thinks it’s a bubble.
The idea is that you focus on a sector or a finite list of stocks. These are stocks that you understand, getting to know how they tick.