Daily Research & News
By Tony Sagami On April 2, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, are the top scheme right now for get-rich-quick investors in the United States. In China, they use mutual funds. It’s all about “fear of missing...
By Kelly Green On April 1, 202101:17 PM Eastern
I usually like to take this time to look at a particular section of the stock market that’s in the headlines and see which stocks in that sector are performing the best, according to the Weiss...
By Mike Larson On March 31, 202106:00 AM Eastern
There’s a crucial boardroom scene in the 2011 movie “Margin Call” in which a junior mortgage analyst reveals to the investment bank’s CEO that they’re sitting on an enormous pile of toxic mortgage...
By David Dittman On March 30, 202106:00 AM Eastern
It seems not a day goes by anymore without big cryptocurrency news filling our screens and streams. Here’s a Monday morning chyron from Bloomberg:
VISA TO USE STABLECOIN TO SETTLE TRANSACTIONS
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By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On March 29, 202112:53 PM Eastern
If you had invested just $100 when Bitcoin first traded publicly, and you held it through all the big ups and downs, you’d have more than $90 million today.
Could you invest $100 in Bitcoin...
By Jessica Borg On March 28, 202106:00 AM Eastern
We’re exactly three months into the new year and money continues to saturate the stock market. And, due to the stimulus payments from Congress and monetary policy from central banks, we can expect...
By Tony Sagami On March 26, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Wow! My Feb. 26 column about a conversation with one of my successful college buddies touched a lot of hot buttons.
If you haven’t read it, I recommend you do; here’s the setup:
“Tony,” he...
By Kelly Green On March 25, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) deposited around 90 million stimulus payments. So many people saw their stimulus deposit hit last Wednesday that the Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC)...
By Mike Larson On March 24, 202106:00 AM Eastern
What would Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen say if he were alive today? Considering the size, scope and costs of the Biden administration’s spending plans, we can surely imagine.
Dirksen, of...
By Jon D. Markman On March 23, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Two weeks ago, Jon Markman wrote the article “Digital Transformation of Industry and Finance Is Just Starting” for his Pivotal Point readers.
The Nasdaq Composite had already bounced back from a...