Thursday, November 7, 2024
During my entire 35+ year career, Latin American markets have been something of a mess. There have been flashes of greatness, but inevitably, something happens to send the market spiraling lower once again. In other words, Latin American countries have been emerging markets that never emerged. I can go through example after example, but then […]
In June, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil traded in the mid-$60s. Three months later, it’s pushing $95 per barrel, with market expectations that it will soon be above $100. Due to the lag between business results and the quarterly earnings reports, it’s not too late to jump on some energy stocks for their upcoming […]
Our colleague, Tim Plaehn, wrote an interesting article this week titled: “Here’s how to profit off the gasoline price spike.” In case you haven’t noticed, the price of gasoline at the pump has been going up lately. According to AAA, a gallon of gasoline is $3.88—its highest level since October 2022. One reason for the […]
Lately, I’ve really been liking the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY). The SHY ETF tracks and represents the performance of the U.S. Treasury bonds with remaining maturities between one and three years. It lets investors target a part of the short-term U.S. Treasury market. Bond prices have been going lower for some time […]
It should come as no secret that I am not wildly bullish on the future of the stock market. Everything I see indicates that the long-term returns from stocks will be low to worse than that for several years, if not longer. If that is a surprise to you, I did a webinar on Monday […]
I was pleasantly surprised to read a recent Wall Street Journal article highlighting the investment benefits of Business Development Companies (BDCs). The article included a couple of BDCs that are on my Dividend Hunter recommended portfolio. Let’s dig in, and take a look at why these BDCs are such great income investments… The WSJ article […]
In the days before software, if engineers wanted to know if an idea worked, they would first have to build a three-dimensional physical model. But this method had one major flaws: not everything scales linearly. What worked fine on a smaller scale may turn into a disaster when made larger. Thankfully, today, we have simulation […]
Last week, in our 48-Hour Income service, we sold a cash-secured put on software automation company UiPath (PATH). 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. PATH was about to announce earnings that week, and its puts looked expensive. […]
It’s coming. You cannot stop it. The media cannot stop it by declaring it will not happen. The economy is going to slow down. A recession is still more likely than not. Even if the Fed stops raising rates (which is almost entirely dependent on energy and rent prices at this point), they will not […]
Last week, I went to fuel up my pickup truck and was shocked to see that gas prices had jumped overnight by $0.40 per gallon. Ouch! I started digging into the cause, looking for an investment angle. What I found reinforced my belief in what I think is one of the best investment opportunities in […]
