A 9.8% Yielding Portfolio Beating The Market: The Cash Flow Kingdom Income Portfolio Mid-Year Review

This article is a mid-year update of the Cash Flow Kingdom Income Portfolio previously covered at the beginning of the year in, "11.1% Yielding Portfolio With Good Coverage And Decent Growth Prospects". Cash Flow Kingdom members get more frequent updates of this information-- Macroeconomics, Market Indicators, Income Portfolio performance, and current Best Opportunities --in a regularly published "Synopsis" article.
Macroeconomics:
The US economy continues to do well with US - China trade negotiations recently restarted. Consumer sentiment was 98.2 in June vs. an 86.6 historic average. The US consumer was still buying through May. YTD May retail sales are up 3.2% YoY. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy continues to add jobs; thus far in 2019 by an average 153,000 per month. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics The Powell Put Is In. Back in January the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, gave a prepared statement which signalled not only a pause in interest rate hikes, but also if necessary a halt to their balance sheet runoff. Later in March on 60 minutes he reiterated that policy was appropriate and he saw no hurry to change it. Recently many pundits think a supportive rate cut more a question of when than if. While I disagree with this conclusion, thinking the economy might be strong enough that a rate cut isn't necessary, I do concur Mr. Powell how our backs. Were it not so unpopular to say anything is going well under the current administration,... Read more