Articles for category: Market News

Russ Cohen

Why the Smart Money Is Quietly Buying Up the AI Power Grid

The public market is currently obsessed with the “brains” of artificial intelligence. Every quarter, retail investors and momentum traders wait with bated breath for Nvidia’s latest earnings print, counting how many specialised graphics processing units (GPUs) tech titans are buying. But underneath the hype, a cold, structural reality is beginning to settle over Silicon Valley. ...

Russ Cohen

Why Investors May Be Paying for Illiquidity Instead of Being Compensated

Private market investments have seen a significant increase in allocations across institutional portfolios and, increasingly, private wealth strategies over the past decade. The traditional rationale is well known to be that investors earn an illiquidity premium in exchange for locking up capital in assets that cannot be readily traded. This is a bug that investors ...

Russ Cohen

Here’s How to Profit From the Oil Signals Most Traders Miss

Two specific market signals that can reveal where institutional money is moving before the crowd catches on. Listen to the audio version of this article (generated by AI). Editor’s Note: Oil markets can’t seem to catch a break as geopolitical tensions, supply concerns, and global uncertainty continue to build, welcoming serious volatility. To explain how ...

Russ Cohen

This Fund Starts With a 24.6% Dividend: It’s Downhill From There

Closed-end funds (CEFs) yield around 8% today—and that’s on average. Plenty yield more—and deliver their payouts safely, predictably and often monthly, too. Members of my CEF Insider service know this. As I write this, our portfolio yields a high 8.8% on average, even as many of our funds’ prices have risen with this year’s strong ...