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This 7% Dividend Stock Just Blew Past Q4 2022 Projections – Buy It Now
The inflation rate in December 2022 fell to 6.5% on an annual basis. That’s down from 7.1% in November and a peak of 9.1% in June 2022, but it’s still very high. And with the Fed still sticking to their guns on keeping interest rates higher for longer, we know that we must continue to […]
Stocks Are Still Volatile – Check Out This Alternative for Lasting Returns
If you’ve seen the Total Wealth article from this week about Blackstone’s “bailout” from the University of California, you know that the real estate market is in real trouble. That’s a problem for investors who are concerned about the whiplash effect from volatility in traditional equities, which was a hallmark of last year and isn’t […]
The Real Estate Market Is Heading for a Huge Slump – Here’s the Best Way to Profit
Blackstone Inc., the giant alternative investment management company with almost a trillion dollars in AUM (assets under management), recently restricted investors from redeeming or cashing out their BREIT (the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust) fund because the fund didn’t have enough liquidity. That’s a problem – not only for investors who wanted their money back, […]
This $20 Stock Pays You Back $2.30 for Every Share You Own
Friday’s employment numbers showed lower wage growth than expected. That was good enough for traders to move into stocks, and the S&P 500 saw a 2.28% move on Friday, which is continuing into Monday’s session. The lower wage growth was good, but we’re nowhere near being out of the woods regarding inflation. Bottom line – […]
As Earnings Season Starts Up, Here Are the Opportunities to Watch
Markets are starting to catch up to the reality of the Federal Open Market Committee’s messaging on Wednesday and are settling back down again after a brief pop. As I’ve been saying for a while, they’re not kidding about keeping rates higher for longer. The same thing happened this time that’s happened every time there’s […]
China’s Heading for an Economic Meltdown – Do This Right Now to Grab the Biggest Gains
The 1979 movie thriller, The China Syndrome, was based on the fanciful premise that a nuclear meltdown in America could burn through the earth to China. But this isn’t a movie. In this real-life implosion, China is about to melt down. I’ve written before about how the Chinese government has been trying to prop up […]
Quantitative Tightening Will Send Shockwaves Through Markets – Buy This To Stay on Solid Ground
Right now, everyone wants to know how much more the Fed’s going to hike, what the terminal rate will be (the highest level that fed funds get to), and how long might they keep rates elevated. But that’s looking in the wrong direction. We know the answers already. Rate hikes aren’t as important as they’ve […]
Wall Street Doesn’t Care About Inflation Anymore – Here’s What They’re Looking at Instead
The recent crash happened because of a dance between market-maker dealers and the call and put buyers on both sides they were selling to. As investors lost money on calls, they sold off; dealers bought them back but shorted futures as a hedge, and then we started sliding. I wrote about it extensively earlier this […]
The Market’s Overreacting to the Fed Again – Here’s How to Trade It
It was no surprise that the Federal Reserve’s FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) raised the benchmark fed funds rate by 50 basis points yesterday. (In case you didn’t know, Fed funds are overnight loans big banks make to each other. A “basis point” is one one-hundredth of a percentage point, so 50 basis points is […]
Score a Double-Whammy Win on This Dividend Stock as Markets Rally
This is a big week for the markets, and I think it will set up a December to remember. With the Consumer Price Index print for November set to come out tomorrow and the Fed making its next decision on interest rates Wednesday, we’re going to see a lot of market movement this week. I’ve […]