Friday, September 20, 2024
As the commercial real estate doom and gloom continue to circle around us, I had a chance to talk with Jay Hatfield of InfraCap Funds last week. Jay is one of the best preferred stock and income investing ETF managers, and he delivers solid returns for income investors in all the funds he manages. We […]
Major changes are underway at Alibaba (BABA), China’s best known e-commerce company, which was founded 24 years ago by Jack Ma. And this time, Ma is hoping for better results. The last time Alibaba made a big move to reorganize its business, the company set in motion a chain of events that led to a […]
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) fully participated in the 2022 bear market. Unlike the tech sector’s apparent recovery during the first quarter of 2023, REIT share prices have not shown signs of life. Broadly speaking, REITs are down about 30% from the late 2021 highs. That means now is a good time to make some […]
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 […]
An options block trade in General Motors (GM) could be a sign of stability in the stock over the next several months. A trader appears to have sold a put spread in GM options that expires in September. The spread was sold 10,000 times, with the position collecting $1.40 in premium per spread. The best […]
A typical trade-off for most high-yield investments is that they pay non-tax-qualified dividends, which would be taxed at your marginal income tax rate. Not a lot of investors know that there is a way (outside of qualified retirement accounts) to earn tax-advantaged, high-yield dividends. The benefits can be substantial. So let me show you how […]
It seems like everyone is rushing to cash in on the artificial intelligence (AI) craze unleashed by ChatGPT. This is especially true for companies in the technology industry. Companies from Microsoft to Google to China’s Baidu are all rushing to create the best chatbot. No one yet knows what company, if any, will come out […]
One of the most heavily traded ETFs in the world is the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ). The Nasdaq 100 tracking ETF trades over 50 million shares on average per day and nearly 3 million options on top of that. Last week, an institution or fund purchased a whopping 65,000 puts in QQQ that expire in […]
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 […]
Gold just rushed past $2,000 for the first time since Covid first struck (and people were panicking). Does that mean you should be buying? For many, they look at gold mining companies as a ‘gold alternate’ to capture bigger gains as gold moves. Today, I’m going to share more about if this is a good […]
