By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 202106:28 AM Eastern
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Publication Update: We might shift to a three-days/week schedule for summer.
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Stocks opened stronger on Friday, following much-better-than-expected non-farm payroll data. The...
By Jessica Borg On August 8, 202106:00 AM Eastern
With the highly contagious Delta variant on the loose, COVID-19 infections are spiking in communities across the country. “I cannot emphasize this enough: I do not expect the economy to close...
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 202103:25 PM Eastern
The economy created 943,000 nonfarm jobs during July, according to data from the Labor Department. If that number seems like a beat … that’s because it is. The outcome is investors are once again...
Wealth Megatrends
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By Sean Brodrick On August 6, 202112:03 PM Eastern
Your portfolio is doing well, so I shouldn’t complain … but lately, I’m finding the action in markets a bit mysterious.
For example, we saw Treasury yields rise in early 2021 due to the global...
Weekend Windfalls
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There are times to trade … and times to sit tight. This week is an example of the latter.
For one thing, your model portfolio is pretty full. For another, most August positions are going your...
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 202106:58 AM Eastern
There is a lot of valuable information in quarterly financial transcripts, Securities and Exchange filings, and investor day presentations.
I wrote last month about a throwaway line in an Intel...
By Jon D. Markman On August 6, 202106:28 AM Eastern
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Publication Update: We might shift to a three-days/week schedule for summer.
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The S&P 500 finished Thursday up 0.6% at 4,429 – negating all of Wednesday’s losses and shrugging off...
By Tony Sagami On August 6, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I’m a big boxing fan. Muhammad Ali is the greatest, but I’ve always enjoyed the lighter-weight fights more. I watched every Sugar Ray Leonard fight, especially the epic battles against Tommy...
By Jon D. Markman On August 5, 202103:10 PM Eastern
The parade of economic and earnings reports continued this morning with initial claims for unemployment and several high profile corporate reports.
New filers for unemployment insurance dipped...
By Sean Brodrick On August 5, 202110:32 AM Eastern
I hope you acted on my two recommendations on Tuesday. While Livent Corp. (NYSE: LTHM) got dragged down with the broad market yesterday, Standard Lithium, Ltd. (NYSE: SLI) jumped 7% on the day to...