Worried about the trade war and your retirement portfolio? Then I have two words for you: monthly dividends. Let’s look at four names that have my attention today.

Although each REIT has its own factors, the overall issue might be interest rates and a change in expectations about them.

Funds focused on the VIX, the stock market’s so-called fear gauge, can minimize losses if Trump’s next announcement sends stocks crashing.

For example, the recent SIRI share price of $20.08 represents a price-to-book ratio of 0.6 and an annual dividend yield of 5.38%

Asian equities were lower as our “tariffs higher = markets down” theory was proven correct by Nvidia’s announcement that it will take a Q1 charge of $5.5 billion. The US government will require Nvidia to obtain an export license for its H20 chips. No word from AMD (yet), as their MI308 chips will also require an export license.

In the run-up to the reversal of many of President Trump’s tariffs, we saw some true panic selling that turned into what can only be called panic buying.