Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Merger and acquisition activity continues to sweep across the energy sector. In the latest deal, Chesapeake Energy (CHK) agreed to acquire rival Southwestern Energy (SWN) for about $7.4 billion, in an all-stock transaction that will create the largest natural gas producer in the U.S. The enterprise value of the newly combined company will be around […]
When Boeing (BA) was building a seemingly dominant position in commercial aviation in the 1960s and 1970s, passengers’ faith in its relentless focus on quality inspired the slogan: “If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going.” To say that the quality of Boeing’s products in recent decades has gone downhill is an understatement. That’s why, today, […]
The prospectus of a newly launched fund discusses its strategy to generate returns of up to 5% per month. The fund is so new there are very few actual results to determine the strategy’s effectiveness. Option strategy ETFs have become a very hot category, and I plan to dig through the dozens of funds to […]
Everyone loves to play the prediction game. I like to play what is cheap, especially when looking at the world markets. Cheap markets tend to bounce and recover, especially if there is rule of law and a government that does not despise free markets and capitalism. Most of the countries that are cheap are going […]
Last week in my 48-Hour Income service, we decided to pass on a trade in bitcoin mining company, Riot Platforms (RIOT). In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. RIOT met most of the criteria for one of our […]
For an investor, few things are as unnerving as realizing that there is a concerted short-seller attack on one of your stocks. Over recent months, I have guided my Dividend Hunter subscribers when a couple of our stocks were subject to short-seller attacks. If you understand what the short sellers are trying to do and […]
The multinational financial services group Citigroup (C) is best known as the parent company of Citibank. This bank has a long and rich history, having been founded in 1812 as the City Bank of New York, and later becoming First National City Bank of New York. But in recent decades, it has become the one […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world—this is true beyond a shadow of a doubt. It will make some businesses better and kill off a few others. The impact on financial markets is going to be enormous. However, it will be nothing like all the ads and come-on promises we see in the […]
If you’ve recently had to hire an electrician, or have your HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system replaced or serviced, you may have asked yourself if you went into the wrong profession. Demand for these professionals is high, and the commensurate rates they can now charge, leads me to my (barely) under $10 stock […]
Japan’s poor economic performance since the late 1980s has gone hand-in-glove with an even lousier stock market. However, the 2023 recovery of the Nikkei and Topix indices to levels not seen since the start of the 1990s showed that global investors have finally begun to take the country seriously again as an investment destination. The […]
