Nike Reports Earnings Monday. Don’t Get Your Hopes Up.

Text size The Nike store in Miami Beach, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Nike already had a China problem. Now you can add Europe to the list. The only question ahead of Monday’s earnings report is wheth...

Cardano SPO Column: Antrix [ANTRX]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a family-run stake pool using a network of low-powered Raspberry Pi devices: Antrix [ANTRX]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool with the aim to better en...

The Stock Market Just Had Its Biggest Rally Since 2020. Enjoy It While It Lasts.

Text size It was the largest weekly gain for all three major U.S. indexes since November 2020. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Drop a ball off a balcony, and it will bounce. Drop the market off an all-time hi...

Europe’s Real Estate Could Offer a Buying Opportunity. These Two Stocks Have an Edge.

Capital & Counties Properties, a British real estate investment trust, owns prime real estate in central London’s Covent Garden. Anna Regeniter/Dreamstime.com Text size As war rages on in Eastern ...

How to Make Oil Stock Volatility Work for You

Text size A Diamondback Energy oil rig in Midland, Texas. Callaghan O’Hare/Bloomberg With oil prices rising and falling dramatically, it can be hard to get a handle on oil stocks. One strategy: ...

A Food Crisis Is Looming. This Fertilizer Stock Stands to Gain.

Text size The invasion of Ukraine could be one of the most disruptive events in the food and agricultural supply chain in decades. Louai Beshara/AFP via Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its ...

Stagflation Is Worrying Forecasters. What Investors Should Do.

Text size Trucks carry potassium chloride at an Albemarle lithium mine in Chile. Cristobal Olivares/Bloomberg Get ready for stagflation light. Headlines about stagflation are everywhere, and the “flat...

Cardano SPO Column: stakeTREK.io [TREK]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool launched with the desire to better engage with the Cardano Community and try to gain a foothold on the path to financial freedom: stakeTREK....

It’s the Beginning of the End for Russian Gas in Europe. These Stocks Should Benefit.

The Batajnica gas storage facility, operated by Transportgas, in Batajnica, Serbia. The European Union is planning to cut Russian natural gas imports. Oliver Bunic/Bloomberg Text size The 27-member Eu...

6 Dividend Growth Stocks That Beat Commodities for Fighting Inflation

Text size Verizon Communications has a towering yield of 4.8%. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Is there such a thing as a meme metal? Humble nickel, used mainly to make stainless steel more workable, rece...

Have Flat Tires And Ukraine’s Mud Season Stalled The Russian Column Outside Kyiv?

A Russian Pantsir S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and short-range missile system stuck in the … [+] mud and abandoned in northern Ukraine. Twitter @TrentTelenko This week, a widely read Twit...

Buy Wizz Air Stock: The Case for Buying an Airline With Exposure to Russia and Ukraine

Wizz Air, the low-cost carrier, is expanding rapidly in Central and Eastern Europe. Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Text size The composition of European airspace has dramatically changed in the past wee...

Oil Prices Are Soaring. It’s Time to Hedge or Sell.

At the top of Americans’ concerns is rising inflation, especially soaring prices for energy, filling their gasoline tanks, or paying their monthly utility bills. And investors and traders have ridden ...

Buy Foot Locker Stock. It’s Gotten Hit Hard Enough.

Foot Locker shares have declined but that may be good news for bargain hunters. James Bugg/Bloomberg Text size Here’s a Hail Mary play: Buy Foot Locker after the stock’s recent post-earnings swoon. Fo...

Cloud Stocks Have Become a Haven in Tech. 4 Stocks to Buy.

As the world emerges from the pandemic, tech companies have been put in a tough spot. They’re under pressure to sustain pandemic-era boosts, and many of them have struggled to meet the challenge, incl...

Cardano SPO Column: Help Pool [HELP]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that was launched at the end of February to help refugees from Ukraine: Help Pool [HELP]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool created in the ...

The Commodities Boom Is Here. How to Invest With Funds.

Global supply-chain constraints have led to worldwide shortages, abnormal weather is hurting crop yields in major agricultural regions, and inflation has made real assets like commodities an attractiv...

Stock Market: The Worst Is Yet to Come. So Is a Swift Snapback.

Text size Traders at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, Feb. 28. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg It’s the end of the world as we know it. The stock market, however, isn’t going anywhere. The last full tra...

The Worst Is Yet to Come for Russia’s Economy. 50-50 Odds on a Russian Bond Default.

The Kasimovskoye underground gas storage facility, operated by Gazprom, in Kasimov, Russia. Russia is under unprecedented sanctions from much of the global economy. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size ...

Gold Is on a Tear. Is Silver About to Catch Up?

Text size Freshly cast 30 kilogram silver ingots. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Gold and silver often trade in sync. And after lagging gold for the past eight months, silver appears to be trying to play ca...

Tech Stocks Get a Bear-Market Scare. What Could Come Next.

As Russian forces were pouring over the border into Ukraine, the tech sector briefly tumbled into a bear market on Thursday. Both the Nasdaq 100 and the Nasdaq Composite fell enough that morning to ex...

Look to the Energy Patch for a Dividend Bonanza. Devon Energy and Pioneer Natural Resources Look Good.

What was already going to be a challenging year for investors was further disrupted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But in a market that has been lacking in certainty, income investors may want to ta...

Is Now the Time to Buy or Sell? 7 Stocks to Consider During Turbulent Times.

I asked two market strategists whether U.S. investors should buy stocks here despite the pall of war in Ukraine. One says definitely, and the other says to hold off. Both are convincing. This is why I...

Cardano SPO Column: Stoic Pool [STOIC]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool created in the UK to help contribute to the decentralization of the network: Stoic Pool [STOIC]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool that is ...

Many Americans Will Be Getting Smaller Tax Refunds This Year. Here’s Why.

The flood of federal pandemic-relief money was welcome last year, but it is causing disappointment and confusion as taxpayers prepare their 2021 returns. Many will be getting smaller-than-expected ref...

Scorned Treasury Bonds Could Be Good Bet After Fed Boosts Rates

Rarely has there been such unanimity of opinion among both Federal Reserve officials and the cadre of analysts who track and try to predict their future moves. Monetary policy will be tightened with a...

The Gold Rush Is On. It’s Not Too Late to Get In.

Text size Investors can buy a gold exchange-traded fund like SPDR Gold Shares or iShares Gold Trust, which own the precious metal. Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg The chase is on. The chase for gold, that i...

Cardano SPO Column: Reservoir Node [RSV]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that is 100% powered by solar and donates 25% of fixed fee to American Forests: Reservoir Node [RSV]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool tha...

What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?

Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...

Europe Looks Beyond Russia for Natural Gas. These Companies May Benefit.

The European Union will look to cuts it dependence on Russian natural gas. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size It takes a brave investor to bet on the outcome of Vladimir Putin’s saber rattling around ...

Nokia Is Remaking Itself Into a 5G Leader. Now Might Be the Time to Plug Into the Stock.

Nokia unveiled a broad restructuring plan last March. Roni Rekomaa/Bloomberg Text size Nokia has had a tough few years, but the Finnish telecom giant has successfully engineered the first part of its ...

Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market

Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...