It’s a big numbers week on Wall Street… with CPI numbers, big-box retail earnings and retail sales figures all coming in over the next few days. These numbers are all about the consumer… and while consumer spending is crucial heading into the final weeks of the year… That’s not my No. 1 takeaway for the […]

Markets have been all over the place this week, especially yesterday, as the S&P 500 broke below the critical support level of 4200 and has continued to drift lower. But looking at individual stocks paints a much more complicated picture, with some sectors staying the course, others taking a serious hit, and others coming out […]

With rising tensions in the Middle East creating a tailwind for oil prices, I’ve gotten a lot of requests this week asking what to do about oil, and by extension, commodities in general. So, here’s the thing: pretty much no one invests in commodities for their appreciation potential long-term. That’s because they’re so cyclical—some are […]

Markets are steady going into this week, with major indices posting slight gains throughout the morning, but there are a lot of things to watch out for that could create volatile swings. Overall, we still need to be very careful out here and stay nimble, prioritizing short-term trades over committing to long-term positions. If you […]

After the outbreak of war in Israel this past Saturday, one particular sector of the stock market got a predictable bump as markets opened this week: defense stocks. Several of the major players got a big bump—Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT), Boeing Co (BA), and RTX Corp (RTX) aka Raytheon to name a few—on Monday, soaring […]

One of the places where investors like to go looking for opportunities when markets are sideways (like they are now) is sectors that are extremely oversold. The logic is that oversold stocks, especially in business sectors that are evergreen, are ripe for a bounce as the stock price rebounds. So I’m not surprised that utility […]

Markets remain in the doldrums thanks to a slew of narrative headwinds dampening investor confidence, whether it’s the Fed’s “higher for longer” stance on interest rates, pending concerns over a government shutdown, or continuing woes for an overextended banking system. There is a chance that we could get a short-term pop just on a mechanical […]

With the Federal Reserve hawkishly indicating that interest rates could remain high as long as 2026, you’re going to see a lot of investors looking for safety plays in order to hedge against doldrums in the stock market. One of the classic “blue chip” stock categories is automobile companies, mainly because Ford Motor Company (F) […]

Three reasons we should be worried about the fate of the U.S. dollar.

If you see the media, the government and corporate powerhouses all jump on a bandwagon, you can be sure it’s headed the wrong way to the wrong place.