There are four scenarios that (I believe) could play out in the market right now:  Which one will happen? No one really knows…even Jerome Powell has no clue which scenario will play out.  However, I created a cheat sheet to prepare your portfolio for every single one of these four scenarios.  I put them all […]

The stock market seems focused on only two types of stocks: technology companies involved with AI, and regional banks—which are going through a crisis. Investors are ignoring the rest of the stock market, which is just drifting. But that should not stop you from picking out a few investing gems from the large body of […]

Once again, technology stocks are grabbing the financial headlines. They have powered most of the gains in the S&P 500 in 2023. In fact, Apple and Microsoft alone now account for a record 13.5% of the index—the most ever for the top two stocks. While it’s tempting to buy big tech right now, the safer […]

The U.S. seems poised for a manufacturing boom as companies tap into government subsidies, pledging to spend tens of billions of dollars on new projects. The Chips and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)—passed within days of each other last August—together include more than $400 billion in tax credits, grants and loans designed […]

Not long ago, I sat down with Jay Soloff, who runs several outstanding options income and trading services at Investors Alley. We had a long discussion about what is going on in the markets in general and banks, specifically. I talked at length with Jay about what has happened in the banking industry since early […]

Real estate has created thousands of millionaires in the United States. The great robber baron and millionaire prototype Andrew Carnegie once said, “Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of […]

This week in Hidden Profits Report, I’m introducing a new feature. This is a topic I will revisit from time to time when I see the type of extraordinary opportunities I am going to talk about today. This part of Hidden Profits is for investors who want to get rich. I don’t mean “hitting the […]

In the classic movie Ghostbusters, Gozer the Destructor appears in the form of the StayPuft marshmallow man, and the end of humanity is narrowly avoided thanks to the high-risk maneuvers of the ghostbusting adventurers. In the stock market, the form of the Destructor changes with frightening regularity: For much of last year, it was inflation […]

In February of last year, a private equity fund managed by Standard General announced that it would purchase Tegna (TGNA), which owns of television stations, digital media platforms, and marketing services, for $24 a share. Private equity giant Apollo Global Management (APO) invested in the entity that Standard General created to buy Tegna, and Tegna […]