By The Weiss Ratings Team On April 26, 202111:32 AM Eastern
Washington D.C. has thrown open the floodgates, showering trillions of dollars on the markets and the economy. It's also racking up enormous debts and deficits in the process.
That’s why Weiss...
By Jon D. Markman On April 26, 202106:28 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 surged on Friday to 4,180, a gain of 1.1%. The benchmark is now only 0.1% from a record high. The gains came despite news on Thursday that the Biden administration may be planning a...
By Jon D. Markman On April 25, 202107:00 AM Eastern
Here’s the burning question for investors: Is the stock market’s meteoric rise since March of last year hinged on merely hope, or is it, well ... real?
Jon Markman, senior analyst and editor of...
By Tony Sagami On April 23, 202105:07 PM Eastern
The Roaring Twenties was largely a product of pent-up demand released in the aftermath of World War I and the deadly Spanish Flu pandemic, which infected one-third of the planet’s population and...
By Jon D. Markman On April 23, 202102:55 PM Eastern
Stocks are firmer in midday trading on Friday, recovering from a tax-hike scare on the wealthiest Americans the session before while key indexes are still heading for small weekly losses amid a...
Last week was another rock-solid one for you on the income front.
That’s because you had two April positions that worked out great — your April ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP, Rated “C-”) put options...
By Tony Sagami On April 23, 202107:00 AM Eastern
My father drew his hand across the horizon of our vegetable farm and said to me, “This land is my retirement account.” My father, like all independent farmers, didn’t have a pension, a 401(k) or...
By Jon D. Markman On April 23, 202106:28 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 spent most of Thursday trading sideways. Then everything fell apart in the afternoon when news broke that President Biden is contemplating raising the capital gains tax for those...
By Jon D. Markman On April 22, 202112:30 PM Eastern
Stocks are trading slightly lower Thursday following weekly jobless data that was better than expected as investors worried that a stronger economy will fuel inflation and bring the Fed’s low...
By On April 22, 202106:58 AM Eastern
Traders got a big scare on Tuesday when cyclical and technology stocks experienced steep declines. It looked like the start of a broader market correction.
One day later everything has been...