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By Mike Larson On February 6, 201907:55 AM Eastern
The financial press always wants to talk about flashy tech stocks. But it’s the steady, reliable, income-generating “Safe Money stocks in defensive sectors that are working best.
Sometimes when...
By Gavin Magor On August 23, 201805:30 PM Eastern
They're all beating the S&P 500 this year and poised to keep outrunning the bull This run-up is remarkable. Wall Street barely blinks an eye at news from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that would...
By Mike Larson On August 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I bet that Warren Buffett had a huge smile on his face last week. I say that because Buffett’s investment franchise, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 240 million shares of Apple (AAPL). And it pocketed...
By Mike Larson On June 21, 201811:55 AM Eastern
As goes this sector, so goes the market? That’s what I believe. And no, I do NOT mean the wildly overloved, overowned, overvalued technology sector.
I’m talking about financials. I consider them...
By Mike Larson On April 5, 201811:55 AM Eastern
You know the expression “If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck” right?
Well, this market sure seems to be walking and growling like a bear more and more with each passing...
By Mike Larson On April 4, 201807:55 AM Eastern
When the market starts dropping, don’t just yell about it. SELL!
I’m not trying to be glib here. I’m being dead serious. Selling has become a lost art form for all too many investors thanks to...
By Mike Larson On February 14, 201808:00 AM Eastern
The more she talked, the angrier I got. And the angrier I got, the more I realized I had to do something.
The setting was a recent group session where a handful of investment experts had...
On January 24, 2018, the first Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings were released. Bitcoin got a C+ (“fair”). And many in the crypto community fiercely denounced the grade as overly punishing. This paper...
By Gavin Magor On December 21, 201710:20 AM Eastern
Last week we discussed variable annuities, how they work, and how they measure up to the popular 401(k) plan. Now, in Part Two of our series, we’re going to examine IRAs – another alternative to...
By Mandeep Rai On December 13, 201708:00 AM Eastern
My colleague Mike Larson just wrote about the Bitcoin Bonanza, and how the best-performing ETF in our database of more than 2,100 such products is a play on the cryptocurrency. But right below...