
Dan Burrows
Dan Burrows is Kiplinger's senior investing writer, having joined the august publication full time in 2016.
A long-time financial journalist, Dan is a veteran of SmartMoney, MarketWatch, CBS MoneyWatch, InvestorPlace and DailyFinance. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Consumer Reports, Senior Executive and Boston magazine, and his stories have appeared in the New York Daily News, the San Jose Mercury News and Investor's Business Daily, among other publications. As a senior writer at AOL's DailyFinance, Dan reported market news from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and hosted a weekly video segment on equities.
Once upon a time – before his days as a financial reporter and assistant financial editor at legendary fashion trade paper Women's Wear Daily – Dan worked for Spy magazine, scribbled away at Time Inc. and contributed to Maxim magazine back when lad mags were a thing. He's also written for Esquire magazine's Dubious Achievements Awards.
In his current role at Kiplinger, Dan writes about equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, funds, macroeconomics, demographics, real estate, cost of living indexes and more.
Dan holds a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University.
Disclosure: Dan does not trade stocks or other securities. Rather, he dollar-cost averages into cheap funds and index funds and holds them forever in tax-advantaged accounts.
Latest articles by Dan Burrows
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5 Best Dow Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
blue chip stocks This mini-portfolio of blue-chip dividend payers is well-positioned to both generate income and hold up to headwinds for the rest of 2022.
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5 Super Stocks to Stave Off Sizzling Inflation
stocks to buy Five sectors are considered more inflation-proof than their peers. We've selected one of the best stocks from each to create a mini-portfolio that can stand up against rising prices.
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20 Biggest Wealth Destroyers of the Past 30 Years
stocks Lehman Brothers and Enron are notorious for destroying shareholder wealth, but they can't compete with these 20 names.
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UBS: 15 Top Growth Investing Ideas
growth stocks Don't give up on growth investing just yet. After a rough start to the year, there's plenty of opportunity in beaten-down growth stocks – including in these top picks.
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Alphabet Stock Split: A Win for Retail Investors … And the Dow?
stocks The Google parent's stock split will make its shares more affordable to retail investors, sets up possible Dow Jones inclusion.
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Microsoft Buys Activision With One Eye on the Cloud
tech stocks MSFT’s $68.7 billion deal for ATVI brings the tech giant a library of A+ titles … and another way to leverage its cloud heft.
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RBC's Top 30 Global Stock Investments for 2022
stocks to buy Inflation. Supply-chain issues. COVID. Investors face numerous hurdles in 2022, but RBC is confident in these 30 stocks' ability to weather the storm.
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The ‘Bividend’: What’s Up With BTCS’s Bitcoin Dividend?
Investing for Income A blockchain company’s first dividend paid in bitcoin might raise some eyebrows … but it’s also unlikely to be the last.
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The 25 Best-Performing Stocks of 2021
stocks The stock market's top performers of 2021 are a timeline of sorts, made up of meme stocks, oil plays and other major themes from across the year.
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The Best and Worst Dow Stocks of 2021
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.
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Hedge Funds' 25 Top Blue-Chip Stocks to Buy Now
blue chip stocks What is the reputed smart money up to lately? We explore the 25 most popular blue-chip stocks among the hedge fund crowd.
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Warren Buffett's Stock Buys and Sells From Q3 2021
stocks Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett kept up his bearish streak in Q3 2021, but he did add a pair of positions from two of his favored industries.
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J&J’s Corporate Split: Just Another Big, Blue-Chip Breakup
Investing for Income Johnson & Johnson is the latest in a line of mega-cap household names that have split their businesses in a bid to boost growth.
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Elon Dumps ~$6B in Tesla Stock as Only Elon Can
stocks Wall Street's pros expected Tesla's CEO to exit part of his position. Musk turned a routine event into a publicity stunt ... and a savvy tax move.
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5 Mega-Cap Stocks Analysts Love the Most
blue chip stocks Stocks with market values of at least $200 billion are where the really big money places its bets. These mega caps are Wall Street's favorites.
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The Single-Best Trading Week of the Year Starts Now
stocks The strongest five-session stretch for stock market returns is upon us, says LPL Financial Chief Market Strategist Ryan Detrick. November as a whole isn't bad, either.
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BofA: 13 Stocks to Buy for a Tax-Loss Harvesting Haul
stocks to buy A BofA Securities note identifies 13 stock picks that might be temporarily hampered by tax-loss harvesting but are fundamentally sound and could outperform in the coming months.
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10 Dow Dividend Stocks Analysts Love the Most
blue chip stocks With uncertainty running high amid a return of volatility, the case for the best Dow dividend stocks is as strong as ever.
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Insider Buying: Bullish Signals for These 7 Stocks
stocks If history is any guide, these stocks could be headed higher in the months ahead, based on recent insider buying activity.
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China's Evergrande Crisis: A Real Threat to U.S. Stocks?
Foreign Stocks & Emerging Markets A looming debt default by Chinese real estate titan Evergrande is sparking fears of global contagion and knocking stocks from their perches.
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Bull Case on Zoom (ZM) Stock Is Cracked, Not Broken
tech stocks Zoom Video's latest quarter produced a few uninspiring surprises, but analysts (and a popular fund manager) remain largely bullish on ZM stock.
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11 Recovery Stocks That Could Get a Vaccine Spark
stocks to buy The FDA's full approval of a COVID-19 vaccine was just the catalyst downtrodden recovery stocks needed, analysts say.
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Wedbush: Apple a Buy Ahead of iPhone 13 Launch
tech stocks Wedbush's Daniel Ives is predicting a "normal" launch of the iPhone 13. And for AAPL stock, normal is ideal.
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Warren Buffett's Stock Buys and Sells From Q2 2021
stocks Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett and his team were bears yet again in Q2 2021, hacking away at a large number of positions while only adding to a handful.
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