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ETF To Ride On Batman Vs. Superman Movie Win

It’s Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX ) that has emerged as the winner in the epic battle between Batman and Superman, the two DC Comics superheroes. As per Box Office Mojo reports, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice grossed over $170.1 million over the Easter weekend, far ahead of the other releases. Although the movie failed to get rave reviews from critics, the audiences paid no heed, making it one of the best March launches and the highest-grossing DC Comics movie over the launch weekend. It also claimed the spot of the sixth-largest domestic opening weekend. The movie has also been received well in the international markets, where it was released last week. It grossed over $254 million overseas, taking the total revenue to over $424.1 million so far. The movie’s performance was solid in the UK ($21.9 million), Mexico ($18.6 million), Brazil ($12.2 million), Korea ($10.5 million), Australia ($10 million) and Russia ($8.5 million), among other countries. Going by the current trend, the film could very well cross the $1 billion mark by the time it leaves the theaters. Following a string of failed releases or limited success with a few high-budget releases like Jupiter Ascending , the success of Batman v Superman… is a huge breather for Time Warner. The company is already preparing for a series of interconnected comic book franchises. These positive developments make it essential to look at the top-ranked PowerShares Dynamic Media Portfolio ETF (NYSEARCA: PBS ), with 5.04% exposure to Time Warner (see all Consumer Discretionary ETFs here ). PBS looks to provide exposure to the Dynamic Media Intellidex Index, holding a basket of 30 securities. Time Warner takes the second spot in the fund. The fund charges 59 basis points (bps) as fees. It has total assets of $86.9 million and trades in volumes of 58,000 shares. It has lost 5.2% so far this year (as of March 24, 2016). The fund has a Zacks ETF Rank #1 (Strong Buy). However, Time Warner may face competition later this year, as it is not the only media house pitting its superheroes against each other. Captain America and Iron Man and other Avengers from the Marvel world, a Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS ) subsidiary, are set to fight it out in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War . Meanwhile, PBS is secure in its position and is poised to gain further, with Disney standing at the 7th spot with little less than 5% weight. Original Post

Why I Haven’t Purchased A Stock In 30 Days

30 days everyone. It has been a long 30 days since I have purchased a stock. An investment. A bridge stone to financial freedom and it feels… well, there really isn’t one word for it. It is weird, fast and unusual, to say the least. As I sit and see the calendar continue to gain momentum towards, now, the end of March, I sit back and think, whoa, it’s been over 4 weeks since an investment move has been made. Why? Here is what I was able to come up with. 30 Days and No Purchase Why have I gone an alarmingly high 30 days with no stock purchase? It feels like 10 years ago and just yesterday at the same time that I made a wallop of an investment into T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW ) on the 24th of February. What’s interesting is the price point was at $66.45 and is now at $72.15 as of 3/24 close before the Easter weekend. That’s a $5.70 increase since the purchase date or a crazy 8.577% increase! What the heck is going on here? Hence, another reason why I haven’t really made a purchase. However, as I go down the winding path of a never ending banter, let’s list out some reasons. 1.) Appreciation/Crooked Graph of the Market – The market is showing “weird” signs of appreciation. With T. Rowe price above appreciating almost 9%, the market is acting quite goofy lately. Even ADM has increased over 10% since my last purchase. A reason why I haven’t purchased then, in the last 30 days, has been the market itself has made it “not easy” to make individual purchases. Actually, I just looked at the S&P over the last 30 days and the top 500 is up 5.5%: Click to enlarge 2.) Given that stocks are back on the rise – couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I have quite a bit of Federal & Local taxes to pay – love Uncle Sam, and this time – we are talking well, well over the 4 digit mark. Additionally, you combine that with two bachelor parties, two weekends and a big vacation trip planned coming up – the cash that I’ve been able to “save” at this time being will likely be used – all for great things, but nonetheless, takes “away” from the investing pot, hands down. Who knows – Bert’s been talking a big game of potentially selling his FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE ) stock – maybe I could do the same and have capital to use for a dividend foundation stock ? Eh? 3.) However – I am conservative in nature and I know I have budged quite high for these expenses listed above in #2. With that, I think I’ll have cash suddenly and my plan is to have it ready for my new found 2016 goal . That goal would be to staying committed on making larger investments into the stock market of $3,000+ each time, thus reducing trading costs and heavily increasing my dividend income and Dividend Reinvestment each time that newly acquired/added position pays out. What’s interesting – I could always download and use Robinhood and have absolute no trading costs, hmm… thoughts? 4.) My watch list isn’t so “watch” anymore. As you recall – back in the early days of March I had a what was called a February stock watch list blog post . What was on there? The likes of – Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ ) and Aflac (NYSE: AFL ). These were stocks I owned already, however, the prices at the time of the article were – $29.70, $106.38 and $60.97, a more compelling case. They all 3 are now trading, in order, $30.08 (Up 1.28%), $108.31 (Up 1.81%) and $62.70 (Up 2.83%). A.k.a. – they have all increased since then – not by too, too much, but all up nonetheless. If PFE dips back below $30 – my eyes are locked in there. But another reason – the stocks that I want, are more expensive and well, damn – no one wants that. 5.) Two words – Busy Season. Nuff Said. Overall Purchase-less Conclusion Here I am. Sitting on cash. Cash that I really can’t use due to those expenses above. However, the market has increased quite a bit that it has allured me away from being active into the market, but also busy season, has taken a toll on the free time of analyzing and staying in tune on the almost minute basis that I was on. Therefore, the combination of life events, tax consequences an appreciating market – has pushed me away from being active over the last 30 days. Can this be the first time that I don’t go out and buy an individual stock purchase in the month? I say individual stock purchase, as through work I still have 5% of my pay going to the Roth 401(k) option, so an investment still does occur, just isn’t an active investment purchase. What do you guys think? Have you guys slowed down at all and/or feel the same way? Would kill to hear your thoughts and what you are seeing. Any big bargains that have been in/out lately? Thanks again everyone, Happy Easter weekend, God bless and looking forward to talking with everyone. Talk soon!