The Fed has made it clear that rate cuts are not coming anytime soon. Some companies, however, can actually hold up in a no rate change environment. Here are 9 stocks with up to 81% upside even if rates remain unchanged. On Wednesday, April 29, the Federal Reserve kept at 3.50% to 3.75%. This was ...
Over the years, smart investors have learned to pay close attention when NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang steps onto a stage. Much like Steve Jobs in his prime at Apple Inc. (AAPL), Huang has a rare ability to see where technology is headed and explain it in a way that captures the market’s imagination. ...
prices have surged, with June Brent delivery reaching $126.41 per barrel and June WTI at $110.31, following President Trump’s indication that the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian oil exports may continue for months. This situation is driving oil prices to their highest levels in over 4 years and significantly impacting the global energy market. The ...
The Strait of Hormuz was reopened on Friday, signaling that negotiations with Iran were going well. This news sent the S&P 500 up 1.1%, the NASDAQ climbing 1.4% and the Dow jumping 1.8%, and each closed the week at all-time highs. But that optimism didn’t last long. Stocks began to fall this morning when traffic ...
The time has come to make a move on this software-stock selloff. And we’re going to use (our favorite income plays, closed-end funds (CEFs), to do it. That’s because the story here—that AI is going to harm the sector, cost jobs and hurt the economy as a whole—is the opposite of what’s really happening on ...
Are your holdings on the move? See my updated ratings for 87 stocks. Source: shutterstock.com/Weitwinkel During these busy times, it pays to stay on top of the latest profit opportunities. And today’s blog post should be a great place to start. After taking a close look at the latest data on institutional buying pressure and ...
Gated funds, collateral fraud, and auto-sector defaults are giving investors in private credit funds and their stock-market equivalents, business development corporations (BDCs), a headache. We have discussed the recent woes of private credit funds (, ), yet we haven’t addressed BDCs. The similarities and differences between private credit funds and BDCs are important. For instance, ...
We’re putting Tesla’s upcoming earnings in focus as competition rises. Hello, Reader. “Beware the Ides of March” is a well-known warning from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar – in which a seer delivers the infamous warning to the Roman emperor before his assassination. It is often used to symbolize a day of doom or inevitable misfortune. I’m ...
shot down nearly 13% after delivering cautious guidance in its Q1 2026 earnings report. A key area of weakness was in ad revenue, which declined for the second consecutive quarter. Spotify continues to become more efficient at generating revenue by adding premium subscribers. That said, ad revenue still makes up a considerable portion of the ...
The market looks chaotic, but certain patterns repeat — and this system is built to find them. Editor’s Note: Most investors assume markets are chaotic… unpredictable… impossible to “solve.” But what if that’s not quite true? What if, beneath all the noise, there are repeatable patterns — specific combinations of factors that tend to lead ...
