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Golden Ticket: The Precious Metal Surge Isn’t Over Yet
It’s no secret that we at Money & Markets are bullish on gold. We’ve talked about the precious metal quite a lot lately … and for good reason. When the stock market is volatile like it is lately, investors flee for safe havens. Gold has a reputation as the...
China’s Stock Market Bubble Just Started — So Buy Now
Few things in life are certain. In the early 1700s, an obscure English writer noted: “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes.” More than 300 years later, it’s safe to add a third certainty to the list. Today, we can be certain of death, taxes and...
Will the Fed’s Money Printing Trigger the Next Great Depression?
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows that...
Opening Bell: Monday Morning’s Top News and Stocks to Watch
Stock market index futures jumped on Monday after PepsiCo Inc. kicked off the second-quarter earnings season on an upbeat note and a semiconductor deal brightened investors’ mood, plus stocks to watch today in the Money & Markets Opening Bell. The Top Story Strong...
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Golden Ticket: The Precious Metal Surge Isn’t Over Yet
It’s no secret that we at Money & Markets are bullish on gold. We’ve talked about the precious metal quite a lot lately … and for good reason. When the stock market is volatile like it is lately, investors flee for safe havens. Gold has a reputation as the...
China’s Stock Market Bubble Just Started — So Buy Now
Few things in life are certain. In the early 1700s, an obscure English writer noted: “Tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes.” More than 300 years later, it’s safe to add a third certainty to the list. Today, we can be certain of death, taxes and...
The Jump in Homebuying Makes This 1 Stock a Buy Now
During a recent get-together, I had the opportunity to meet my new neighbors in South Florida. I found out about their family: What they do for a living. How living in the Sunshine State has always been their dream. But something else stuck with me. They had to move...
Why Oil Tankers Are Worth the Volatility
A CABIN IN THE WOODS, MINNESOTA — I started a business in 2010. Then I got depressed and stopped working. In 2018, I received a lump sum buyout for my share of the business. Kate and I put the entire amount into gold and silver. A couple of months ago, I sold some of...
3 ‘Sucker Dividends’ Yielding 7% to Avoid Now
It’s no secret why most people buy closed-end funds (CEFs): big dividends! The 500 or so CEFs out there yield a game-changing 7%, on average. And with CEFs coming from all corners of the economy, you can easily build a nice, diversified CEF portfolio paying enough...
The Bull & The Bear: 3 Consumer Stocks to Watch as the Sector Soars
As America continues down the road of an economic recession, investors can be left questioning where to put their money. There’s one stock market sector that has been strong since the stock market shed more than 30% back in March. And it’s going to continue to...
The Fed Keeps Zombies Alive — Profit Off Their Coming Demise
Zombies are neither dead nor alive. They should be dead. But some magical — often evil — forces keep them alive. Zombies have appeared in horror movies and books for centuries. But now they are in the business world. A zombie company is one that should be dead but...
Closing Bell: Tech Rally Fizzles Out, Sends Wall Street Lower
Wall Street’s main indexes reversed course in the last hour, as a massive tech-fueled rally lost steam, plus more in today’s Closing Bell on Money & Markets. The Top Story The stock market was pushed higher on Monday on news of an experimental coronavirus vaccine...
Opening Bell: Monday Morning’s Top News and Stocks to Watch
Stock market index futures jumped on Monday after PepsiCo Inc. kicked off the second-quarter earnings season on an upbeat note and a semiconductor deal brightened investors’ mood, plus stocks to watch today in the Money & Markets Opening Bell. The Top Story Strong...
Uncertain Politics Push Gold Higher — and There’s No Sign It’ll Stop Soon
As I talked about in my last article, gold closed the second quarter at its highest level, in U.S. dollar terms, ever. On a cash basis, in the forex markets, gold closed at $1,781 per ounce. That's a full $10 higher than the Q3 2012 peak during the aftermath of the...
Money & Markets Week Ahead: What to Watch on Wall Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XBpOpY4rM Despite coming off a short trading week for the Fourth of July holiday, investors still have stock market volatility on their minds. Wall Street’s three main indexes bounced back and forth during the holiday-shortened...
Is the Stock Market Rally Dead? What to Watch in the Second Half of 2020
Today is the first day of the second half of the most chaotic year in stock market history. If you can believe it, we still have six months to go. And it could be just as wild. I told investors at the beginning of June to expect the S&P 500 to surge to 3,200 by...
The COVID-19 Bull Market Doesn’t Mind a Body Count
It’s an odd world we live in when a pandemic leads to a bull market. But that’s exactly where Wall Street is today — a COVID-19 bull market. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know when I say virus cases are rising again, as are hospitalizations....
Has Buffett Lost His Touch, or Have Investors Lost Their Minds?
Week 15 of the Quarantine That is no market for old men. The young with their Robinhood accounts. Money growing on trees. Those dying generations — left behind. — With apologies to poet William Butler Yeats SALTA CITY, ARGENTINA — Poor Warren Buffett. At 89 years of...
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Will the Fed’s Money Printing Trigger the Next Great Depression?
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows that...
The Feds Are Destroying Real Wealth in America
Week 17 of the Quarantine SAN MARTIN, ARGENTINA — We read the news… and we’re staggered. Are you sitting down, Dear Reader? This is from the Congressional Budget Office’s budget review for June 2020: The federal budget deficit in June 2020 was $863 billion, compared...
Trump Threatens Hong Kong Dollar — but Who’s Zooming Whom?
President Trump openly threatened the peg of the Hong Kong dollar to the U.S. dollar this week. This is in support of a major sanctions bill that is...
Inflation Isn’t Dead. It’s Hiding Behind the Fed
Interest rates are low and falling. In a normal market, prospects of inflation would fall. But this isn’t a normal market. The Federal Reserve is providing money to bond markets. It’s buying billions of dollars of corporate bonds. And that’s hiding inflation. Let’s...
The Bull & The Bear: Why a Quick Economic Recovery Won’t Happen
Over the last few months, the stock market is acting like there is no real economic crisis. The S&P 500 index is close to a record high after falling 34% in March. The tech-heavy Nasdaq has set six new record highs in the last few weeks. The reason for this...
National Coin Shortage Will Help Digital Currency Explosion
My wife works for a major pharmacy retail company. When she came home the other day, she told me something that really got me thinking. She said her company issued a mandate restricting the sale of wrapped coins to consumers. Basically, employees were told if someone...
Hope Isn’t Enough for a Fast Economic Recovery — Watch These Sectors
When it comes to the stock market, we’ve heard one word over and over: hope. Whether it’s for a coronavirus vaccine, more stimulus or the Federal Reserve’s actions, hope seems to guide investor behavior. Lately, the stock market looks as if there is no real economic...
COVID Force You Into Retirement? 3 Ways to Make the Most of It
Retiring is a little like having children. If you wait for the right time, it will never happen. I say this as I have two children of my own with a third on the way shortly. The middle of a pandemic-related recession isn’t an ideal time to be growing a family. It’s...
Don’t Be Passive With Retirement. How to Craft the Best 401(k) Strategy for You
Have you looked at your 401(k) lately? No, I'm not talking about checking the balance as the stock market swings to-and-fro. What I mean is: Do you have a real 401(k) strategy? Many don't. I'll admit I was guilty of this for a long time. I thought simply meeting my...
Make a Habit of Checking Your Social Security Earnings Record
Have you checked your Social Security earnings record lately? For a lot of people, the answer is: “No.” Many may not even know what a Social Security earnings record is. Maybe you think it’s enough to know the basics of the benefits program that supports millions of...
Profit From Real Estate — Without Spending a Penny on Property
Back in 2006, a good friend of mine was pressing me to get into real estate. He was big in housing at the time and was looking for investors to help fund buying property for development. I was younger and single with expendable cash, but I shied away. I wasn’t...
National Coin Shortage Will Help Digital Currency Explosion
My wife works for a major pharmacy retail company. When she came home the other day, she told me something that really got me thinking. She said her company issued a mandate restricting the sale of wrapped coins to consumers. Basically, employees were told if someone...
Plan and Protect Your Retirement With 2 Simple Social Security Tools
Crafting the perfect retirement plan isn't easy. Luckily, the Social Security Administration is making things a little more simple with some new Social Security tools. That's a great sign as millions of Americans will rely on these retirement benefits in the future....
3 Retirement Fears Baby Boomers Must Face
Tackling your retirement fears before they become a reality will set you up for the best post-work life possible. Retirement is a tough idea to conceptualize. We spend decades trying to build up a reasonable nest egg, hoping we've managed to sock enough away. But...