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blue chip stocks The Dow Jones Industrial Average produced well-above-average returns in 2021. But some of its venerable blue chips did far better … while others left shareholders feeling shortchanged.The Dow Jones Industrial Average shook off COVID-19, supply-chain snafus, inflationary pressures and myriad other worries to deliver an outstanding year in absolute terms. Indeed, the… Continue reading The Best and Worst Dow Stocks of 2021 | Kiplinger

The start of the new year means a fresh chance for yield-seeking investors to get in on one of the easiest market strategies in the book: The Dogs of the Dow. Investment manager Michael B. O’Higgins popularized the idea in his 1991 book Beating the Dow. And it doesn’t get much simpler: At the beginning… Continue reading Dogs of the Dow 2022: 10 Dividend Stocks to Watch | Kiplinger

Stock Market Today The 10-year Treasury yield is closing in on levels not seen since November.Monday’s fairly broad market rally turned into more of a two-pronged move Tuesday as economic data and rising interest rates sparked gains in cyclical stocks. The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers’ index reading for December declined 2.3 points to… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Dow Hits New Record, Nasdaq Takes a Spill | Kiplinger

Consumer discretionary stocks had both a great 2021 and a middling 2021. Their 27.2% return across the year is far above what one would normally expect … but that came in a rip-roaring year for the S&P 500, and only ended up being less than a percentage point better than the broader index. And now,… Continue reading The 12 Best Consumer Discretionary Stocks to Buy for 2022 | Kiplinger

Good luck finding fault with how Wall Street kicked off the new year. The major indexes all closed out Monday with gains (including fresh closing highs for the Dow and S&P 500) and Wall Street crowned its first $3 trillion-dollar company (albeit briefly). About the latter: Apple (AAPL) – which became the first company to… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Apple Leads Sweet Start for Stocks in 2022 | Kiplinger

Stock Market Today 2021’s final session had little in the way of fireworks, but stocks nonetheless locked in a stellar year of gains.Wall Street might have exited 2021 with a whimper, but most investors will look back kindly on a sterling year for stocks. Friday’s action was typical for New Year’s Eve: Little news or… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Stocks Slip on NYE, Still Deliver a Terrific 2021 | Kiplinger