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By Sean Brodrick On October 1, 202005:30 AM Eastern
We often hear from Wall Street that “you can’t beat the S&P 500.”
I guess it depends on your time frame, though, because now, at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, and there is an...
By David Dittman On September 22, 202005:40 PM Eastern
The December 2020 gold futures contract was down 2.75% on Monday, shedding more than $50 to close just above $1,900.
It was a dramatic move highlighted by a lot of folks on “FinTwit” (that’s...
By Mike Larson On September 2, 202004:10 PM Eastern
I’ve been a vocal bull on precious metals since late 2018 for several reasons.
Gold and silver offer “chaos insurance” in times of market volatility. Central banks have been big buyers in recent...
By Jon D. Markman On August 12, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Google has a plan to use the sensors in Android phones for a worldwide earthquake detection network, and it’s legitimately the best smartphone news is in a long time.
The search giant announced...
By Sean Brodrick On July 9, 202005:00 AM Eastern
There’s been consternation and wonder in the gold markets recently. And I’m not talking about the fact that gold just hit a nine-year high.
Many of us saw that coming.
Nope, I’m talking about...
Over the past week, we’ve seen quite a bit of sideways consolidation for the King of Crypto. But this shift isn’t the whole story.
Here are three reasons you should still be bullish on Bitcoin...
The vast majority of the 2,647 cryptocurrencies listed by CoinMarketCap.com trade on nothing more than hopes and dreams. Only a few have real world use cases.
And of those, almost none are as...
By Mike Larson On May 20, 202004:56 PM Eastern
Investing is a tough business. If it wasn’t, it’d be called “winning.”
The last thing you want to do is make things harder on yourself. And I feel like that’s what too many are doing in stocks...
By Jon D. Markman On April 27, 202001:10 PM Eastern
The curve is flattening. The shutdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic is almost over. The next step, testing, is being queued up.
On Friday, President Trump signed a $484 billion extension to the...
By Sean Brodrick On April 18, 202005:00 AM Eastern
Apparently, all we need is a crisis for people to decide that some laws are just silly.
Just look back to prohibition. Good intentions ran rampant, leading to silly laws prohibiting personal...