Friday, September 20, 2024
To help hold down fuel and energy prices, the Biden administration has been selling oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), to the tune of three million barrels per week since the start of the year. Now, with the SPR at its lowest level since the 1980s, the administration’s plan to refill the reserve […]
One of my favorite places to hunt for dividend stocks is among the companies Wall Street is avoiding—and chiefly among these, at the moment, are materials stocks. Wall Street is fearful a deep recession will hurt demand for materials, especially industrial metals, so it keeps selling off these companies’ stocks. Meanwhile, Wall Street is also […]
In my free weekly video, I have an interesting chart to show you. Over 20+ years, the S&P 500 has a historical pattern of how it performs in November and December. But, more importantly, how it performs during midterms. We have midterms in two weeks, obviously, so let me give you a glimpse of how […]
While the markets remain in a state of turmoil and prices continue to fall, corporate activists have been picking up their pace. Two developing situations are now worth the attention of patient but aggressive investors… Because the potential returns are getting quite big. Here’s what I’m seeing… First, there is the ongoing saga of Kohl’s […]
Tesla (TSLA) traded nearly 3.5 million options contracts the day after earnings last week. However, one unusual block trade really stood out on that day. A strategist placed a roughly one-week put butterfly trade, which has maximized gains if TSLA drops 20% in about a week. The trade starts making money if TSLA drops about […]
With interest rates rising, your cash holdings could now earn you some interest income. Again, they could—but they may not be doing so. Many financial institutions are not passing along higher interest to customers holding cash. You should check to see how much your money earns, and if it’s a pittance, look at some alternatives. […]
If there is one topic that scientists disagree strongly about in the field of medicine, it is the so-called amyloid hypothesis. This theory, believed by many scientists, holds that the protein amyloid-β accumulates into toxic deposits as Alzheimer’s disease progresses, ultimately causing dementia. However, others think that amyloid is associated with the problem, but it […]
With the bond market in focus this year, there’s been plenty of options action in iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT). The long-term bond fund is the most active of the treasury bond ETFs, trading around 180,000 options per day on average. A large trader or fund placed a very interesting spread trade last […]
This year is on pace to be the worst in history for the standard 401k investment strategy. A balanced portfolio of stock and bond index funds has performed terribly in 2022. Workers who get their third-quarter 401k statements will be shocked. Today, let’s discuss why this happened and how to do better… The traditional 60/40 […]
Ignore the premature celebration on Wall Street that inflation has been beaten and all is well with the world. In reality, inflation is not close to being “beaten.” For example, take a look at food prices in the U.S., which increased 11.2% in the 12 months that ended September 30, after jumping 11.4% previously (the […]
