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Inflation Is Red Hot. How to Protect Your Portfolio and Grow Income.
Income investors—especially those who depend on fixed coupons from bonds—face a hit to their purchasing power as inflation stands above 7%. One strategy to hedge against such big price increases, howe...
4 Stocks That Could Thrive During Inflation
Text size Caterpillar is lucky to have customers flush with cash from rising commodity prices. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Inflation is hot—and that’s cooling off plenty of companies’ earnings. But n...
Cardano SPO Column: Stop Monkey SHOCKs [SHOCK]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that donates at least 20% of pool operators’ profit to support organizations that help prevent monkey electrocutions: Stop Monkey SHOCKs [SH...
The Chip Shortage Has Made These 4 Stocks a Buy
Text size GlobalFoundries, which makes basic chips for everything from cars and phones to toys and power tools, says chip capacity is growing at half the needed pace. Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomber...
Ford Stock’s Rally Is Fizzling. Why Its Stock Is Still a Buy.
Text size A Ford Mustang at a charging station during the Washington Auto Show in January. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg Al Drago/Bloomberg Wall Street is starting to act like this is as good as it...
Cardano SPO Column: GranADA_Staking_Pool [GRANA]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool striving to sustainably decentralize the Cardano ecosystem: GranADA_Staking_Pool [GRANA]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool that is a Sunda...
Knightscope Stock—Like Its Security Robots—Has Its Ups and Downs
Text size Knightscope’s robots—and shares—have had their ups and downs. Dreamstime Knightscope is a tiny firm that’s familiar to many investors, if only from news reports about its “autonomous securit...
The Jobs Report Reveals a Booming Labor Market. Here’s Where Interest Rates Are Headed.
Text size President Joe Biden speaking about the January jobs report. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good news for Main Street, not so good news for Wall Street. Once again, a booming labor market is like...
Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.
“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...
ITR Form Plans To Add Another Column For Crypto Profits
Alongside the approval of Cryptocurrency in the country, India’s Government also prepares steps to collect tax revenues from crypto profits. As a result, ITR forms will add a separate column in 2023 f...
This Is What a Stock-Market Earnings Slowdown Looks Like. Things Could Take a Turn for the Worse.
Text size It’s been a painful time for investors hoping that earnings could drive stocks higher. Even the rallies are stomach-churning. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:...
These 14 Stocks Paused Dividends Early in the Pandemic. Here’s Where Their Payouts Are Now.
Ford Motor is among the dividend payers that have restored their once-suspended payouts at a lower level than before the pandemic. Courtesy of Ford Text size Although there are some large U.S. compani...
Cardano SPO Column: GROW TEAM [GROW]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that is a SundaeSwap Scooper and donates 100% of pool’s profits (48% of pool’s total revenue) to saving the lives of children: GROW TEAM [GR...
Tesla Reported Record Profits. Its Stock Was Punished. It’s a Better Buy Than GM or Ford.
Text size The reaction to Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report was the worst to an earnings beat in its history. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg What the heck just happened to Tesla stock? Its shares go...
When Is the Next Recession Coming? Here’s How to Time It
Fake it ‘til you make it might work in Silicon Valley. It’s a less practical strategy for the Federal Reserve, which looks ready to compound one mistake with another. The central bank’s statement on W...
Housing Market Is the Fed’s Frankenstein, and It Won’t Be Easily Tamed
Fed chief Jerome Powell says there is an ‘element of uncertainty around the balance sheet’ and the central bank’s plans to shrink it from the pandemic-inflated $9 trillion at which it now stands. Grae...
Tech Stocks to Buy as Interest Rates Rise
Text size Chip stocks look like good bets in th new world for tech stocks. Maika Elan/Bloomberg Tech stocks finally showed a little fight last week, aided by an impressive batch of earnings reports. B...
Why the Floor for Bitcoin’s Price Is Zero
Text size What matters for Bitcoin is price momentum. Dreamstime A few thoughts early in the trading week: Recent crypto buyers who are sitting on deep losses surely don’t need me reminding them that ...
Netflix Stock Might Be a Buy After Earnings Selloff
Text size Netflix added 8.3 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, but the company’s first- quarter forecast came up well short of Wall Street’s estimate. Dreamstime And just like that, Netflix pr...
6 Stocks for a 2022 of Higher Interest Rates and Slower Earnings Growth
Don’t let inflation fears dominate your investment thoughts. Save time to worry about earnings growth, too. Below, some statistical bellyaching and portfolio defeatism, plus one Wall Street bank’s top...