Sunday, November 17, 2024
One of the most important charts I watch is the strength of the U.S. dollar. And right now, it’s showing the dollar at an inflection point… Which in the past has had a huge effect on the stock market. In today’s 2-minute video, I show you the chart and explain exactly what this means for […]
The latest jobs numbers are great, with unemployment at just 3.6%. That’s very, very low. Great news, right? Lots of analysts seem to think so. But that’s because they seem to think things will just continue improving at the same rate as they have so far. In today’s video, I pull up a chart that […]
One of the hottest topics of conversation on Wall Street, and among my colleagues like Tim Plaehn and Tim Melvin here at Investors Alley, is the state of the U.S. commercial real-estate market (CRE). The story on Wall Street, as articulated by media outlets such as Bloomberg, is that a $1.5 trillion “Wall of Debt”—mortgages […]
For 14 months in a row now, an obscure monthly report has been coming in higher than Wall Street expected. This unprecedented string of beats has infuriated the Fed… Pushed up stock markets… And sent ripples throughout the global economy. This Friday, July 7, early in the morning, the report comes out. And while Wall […]
I just pulled up a chart of the 10-year treasury yield and it’s showing a trend break that we haven’t seen since the 80s. That’s a 40-year trend now broken! It’s telling as it gives us a glimpse into what the future economic picture might look like in America. In my short 3-minute weekly video, […]
I always find the oil industry interesting… For instance, did you know that unconventional oil production – U.S. shale – was the only source of growth in global oil supply over the last 12 years? The only growing non-OPEC basin is the Permian Basin in West Texas. Never before has global oil supply growth been […]
The 2022 bear market took the real estate investment trust (REIT) sector down, along with the broader stock market. Most of the stock market bottomed in October 2022, but has recovered a significant portion of the bear market losses. REITs have not participated in the recent market gains, with share prices remaining near their 18-month […]
The stock market offers pockets of opportunity in sectors that combine a decent dividend yield with a good quality business. In other words, growth and income. One such sector is the pharmaceuticals sector, which overall has lagged the S&P 500 in the past five years, although not by much. There are, no doubt, some world-class […]
Due to the collapse of multiple banks in March, we’ve seen regional banks stay depressed in pricing. There’s been little pop back to the upside. And, as more people wake up to the fact that keeping your money in low-interest checking accounts isn’t smart… We could keep seeing more deposits flee the small banks. However […]
We’ve seen a historic run-up in interest rates the last 12 months as the Fed tries to hog-tie inflation. It’s working so far as inflation hit a 4% annualized rate on Tuesday. The Fed’s slowing to a pause on interest rate hikes… And I’ve looked at the past 30 years of data to reveal what […]
