Cardano SPO Column: FIKA Pool [FIKA]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a hydro-powered stake pool with the mission to drive Chinese-speaking investors into Cardano: FIKA Pool [FIKA]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool operat...

The Market’s Priced in a Rate Rise. Now the Fed Has Lots of Other Issues to Decide.

Watch what they say, not what they do, at the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this coming week. The obverse of the famous advice from Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, is what eco...

Stock Market Suffers Worst Week Since 2020. Here’s What Comes Next.

Text size The decline has been painful for investors who have been trained to buy on the dips. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg A bad start to 2022 just got a whole lot worse. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

Everything You Need to Know About the Forexway Co-lecturers Column

After Forexway’s successful launch of its easy-to-grasp animated forex education videos, the growing platform has introduced yet another extension to their trading education services. Last November 20...

Bitcoin’s Fair Value Is a Lot Less Than the Market Thinks

Text size Dreamstime Bitcoin’s fair value is $20,851, according to the only valuation model I’m aware of for this best-known cryptocurrency. Your reaction to this depends in part on whether you see th...

As Russia-Ukraine Tensions Heat Up, Russian Stocks and Currency Take Big Hits

Russia’s stocks continue to sink as Russian-Western diplomatic talks ended without visible progress. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Image Text size Russia is a screaming buy, if you forget about the li...

A Rising Misery Index Points to Four Rate Increases in 2022

Now, in the winter of our discontent, it shouldn’t be surprising that the Misery Index has made a comeback. Those of a certain age will recall it was a measure conceived in the 1960s by the economist ...

Russia-Ukraine Conflict Could Disrupt the Prices of These Commodities. What to Know.

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Russia would carry natural gas to Europe if approved by legislators. Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg Text size Tensions between Russia and Ukraine are on the rise, and trade...

Adobe Stock Has Taken a Beating. This One Data Point Could Signal a Comeback.

Text size Adobe’s Creative Cloud application manager window. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Adobe stock has been tanking recently—and it’s time for it to make a stand. If it can’t, long-term investors could b...

Satellite TV Can’t Be Saved With a DirecTV-Dish Merger

Text size In some parts of the country where cable access is limited, Dish and DirecTV remain the only way to get pay-TV subscriptions. Daniel Acker/Bloomberg For 20 years now, Dish Network and rival ...

Miners Are Off to a Strong Start. Freeport-McMoRan Could Be the Big Winner.

Text size A vehicle collect rocks with ore deposits at a Freeport-McMoRan mining complex. OLIVIA RONDONUWU/AFP/Getty Images Investors have been waiting months for mining stocks to regain their mojo. T...

Cardano SPO Column: Block Producer Austria [ERE]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool operated by 3 friends from Austria who also have a YouTube channel: Block Producer Austria [ERE]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool that do...

Value Gets Its Moment. Consider These Stocks and ETFs.

Buy the dip, wrote J.P. Morgan’s strategists early this past week. As calls to courage go, it wasn’t exactly Churchill during the Blitz. The dip in this case was a 2% decline, year to date, in the S&a...

Cardano SPO Column: CO2-Pool [CO2P]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a mission-driven stake pool that donates a portion of pool rewards to climate action initiatives: CO2-Pool [CO2P]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool ope...

Markets Are About to Face Off With the Fed. How to Play It.

Text size The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Samuel Corum/Bloomberg There is always a bull market. The trick is trying to find it. Let the pundits wrestle with Wednesday’s sharp decline in th...

Rio Tinto Is Building Its Lithium Business. The Move to Green Energy Will Boost the Stock.

Diversified miner Rio Tinto is pivoting toward clean-energy products. Courtesy of Rio Tinto Text size A fat dividend and a robust pivot toward clean-energy products should make United Kingdom–based di...

These Two Fund Pros Think Dividend Stocks Are Primed to Prosper

For dividend investors who’ve been jarred by the pandemic, the new year brings a clean slate and hope for a brighter future. While many companies that cut their payouts early in the global health cris...

Forget Fed Rate Hikes. How It Handles Its $9 Trillion in Assets Is What Really Matters.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell, shown late last year at a House hearing, faces some big policy decisions this year. Brendan Smialowsky/AFP/Getty Images Text size If there is one takeaway...

Not Even GameStop Stock Can Fight the Fed

Text size A Tesla electric vehicle drives through the Las Vegas Convention Center loop at the CES 2022 show this past week. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty Images The stock market is supposed to be forwar...

Biotech Stocks Are Due to Bounce Back. This One Stands Out.

Text size Large-cap biotech will offer a smoother ride than small, and Vertex, in particular, looks attractive. Igor Akimov/Dreamstime.com Biotech stocks began the year in much the same way they ended...

Coca-Cola Just Got Sweeter. The Stock Looks Like a Buy.

Text size One analyst sees Coke’s earnings per share growing at a 12% annualized clip through 2023, hitting $2.71 that year. George Frey/Bloomberg Coca-Cola stock finally has its fizz back after recla...

Auto Stocks Have Revved Up on EV Ambitions. Here’s Where They Go Next.

Who needs parody cryptocurrency when car stocks are this exciting? Ford Motor , General Motors , Tesla , and Rivian Automotive each had price swings of more than 10% during the first trading week of t...

Fed Minutes Suggest More Stock-Market Turmoil Could Lie Ahead

Text size Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sometimes you need to read something in black and white to believe it. That may explain why the stock market sold off sharp...

Cardano SPO Column: SHIFT Pool [SHIFT]

This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a climate positive stake pool operated by two environmental activists who want to change the world for the better: SHIFT Pool [SHIFT]. Last week’s guest ...