By Jon D. Markman On September 4, 202006:28 AM Eastern
Equities fell sharply on Thursday, marking the market’s deepest decline since June, as new data showed unemployment remains high while the country struggles to recover from the continuing COVID-19...
By Kelly Green On September 3, 202004:35 PM Eastern
When I first started in the industry, I was working as the associate editor of a dividend stock newsletter. My mentor told me to go out and get a copy of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent...
By Jon D. Markman On September 3, 202003:25 PM Eastern
Stocks are selling off today, led by heavy setbacks in the technology sector following several record highs in a row.
The market had ended the session the day before sharply higher after data...
By Jon D. Markman On September 3, 202011:18 AM Eastern
The recent gains for big technology stocks have been off the charts. Prices are going parabolic as investors begin to realize that the digital transformation is the real deal.
And it doesn’t...
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 September 2, 202003:10 PM Eastern
Stocks are advancing again Wednesday as the tech-concentrated Nasdaq Composite rebounded from a brief trip into the red while the broader market took in stride a slowdown in the amount of private...
By Jon D. Markman On September 2, 202006:28 AM Eastern
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Note: Like last week, I might take one or two days off this week.
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Stocks ripped broadly higher on Tuesday, bolstered on the first trading day of the month by better-than-expected...
By David Dittman On September 1, 202004:13 PM Eastern
This was always going to be a wild one.
Indeed, in the beginning of the year 2020, Martin Weiss wrote of a Bitcoin bounce because of what appeared then to be a brewing World War III concentrated...
By Jon D. Markman On September 1, 202003:00 PM Eastern
U.S. equities advanced Tuesday, buoyed during September’s first trading session by recovery prospects for the world’s two largest economies as manufacturing activity expanded.
The Nasdaq...
By Sean Brodrick On September 1, 202001:40 PM Eastern
Gold was up strongly this morning, nearing $2,000 an ounce, as the U.S. Dollar Index neared a two-year low. But then gold backed off hard on news that the U.S. Institute for Supply Management...