Author: Contrarian Outlook

Success in so many areas of life depends on keeping a cool head, and looking beyond your emotions. That may be most true when investing.

Today’s market is ideal to grab closed-end funds (CEFs) paying outsized dividends of more than 10%.

Stock markets are hardly surprised; they’ve been pricing in a recession for a year now. And therein lies buying opportunity.

In a fast-changing environment, investors need to limit volatility as much as they can by a focus on high-quality, low-risk stocks.

Oil isn’t starting to underperform because of a reversion to the mean, but for a much more important reason: Recession fears.