Bond ladders can be rickety at times. But they may provide protection against volatile interest rates and offer ways to capture higher yields as they hit the market. The concept is straightforward: As...
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It’s Time for the Stock Market to Worry About Recession
The stock market is so over the Federal Reserve—but that doesn’t mean it’s out of the woods just yet. Attention is now turning to the U.S. economy—and whether it sinks into recession will determine if...
Match Group Stock Has Been Knocked Down. It’s Time to Pick It Up.
Online dating has been a heartbreaker for investors in Match Group this year. The stock, however, now looks like a keeper. It hasn’t been an easy year for Match (ticker: MTCH). Its stock has fallen 65...
This British Clean-Energy Developer Is Making Big Bets
Europe’s urgent rush for new energy sources since Russia invaded Ukraine is creating a wide range of investment opportunities, including some intriguing speculative plays. Clean-energy developer Ceres...
Fed Tightening Is Having More Impact Than You Might Think
We’ve learned a lot about the transmission of disease in the past few years. Ideas, good and bad, are spread similarly. Robert Shiller, the Yale University Nobel laureate, wrote in Irrational Exuberan...
Cardano NFT Column: Fast Society
This week’s guest on the Cardano NFT Column is a project that is launching a Play And Earn (P&E) mobile game on both Cardano and Solana: Fast Society. The previous guest was a project developing a...
What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.
Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...
Preferred Dividends Are Part Stock, Part Bond. How They Can Provide Income.
We won’t know for a while if the recent rally in bonds has legs. Yields tumbled Thursday, pushing up prices, after a relatively tame inflation reading, as investors bet that the Federal Reserve will e...
Oil Prices Could Jump in December. Energy Stocks Should Get a Jolt.
Oil prices have had a quiet November, holding steady around $90 per barrel. There’s a good chance the calm won’t last. A new set of sanctions from Europe will ratchet up the pressure against Russia an...
Why Higher Interest Rates Won’t Solve the Inflation Problem
Interest rates are heading higher, and the economic toll from the rapid, ongoing rise in the cost of credit is only starting to unfold. But higher rates won’t fully fix the inflation problem. There ar...
Cardano SPO Column: CardanoWeed [WEED]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool operated by a diverse blend of people united by a love of cannabis and blockchain: CardanoWeed [WEED]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool op...
Higher Rates Hammer Home Buyers—and Make Mortgage REITs Lucrative for Investors
It’s instructive and often amusing to see how the popular media cover economic and financial news. You can get a handle on the public’s sentiment from how they treat those topics, which usually varies...
Will Home Prices Crash? Don’t Count on It. Here’s Why.
The housing market is cooling, but the downturn may be overhyped. That is both a blessing and a curse. Data released this past week showed that U.S. home prices fell in August at the steepest month-ov...
Don’t Expect the Stock Market to Rally, Even if GOP Wins Control of Congress
The outcome of the midterm elections on Nov. 8 could disappoint investors, regardless of which party they support. According to Wall Street lore, stocks usually perform strongly following the midterms...
As China-U.S. Relations Cool, Reshoring Heats Up. Honeywell and Other Stocks That Should Benefit.
The gulf between the U.S. and China is widening, which could be good news for stocks benefiting from the reshoring of industries that migrated over the past 40 years. If President Xi Jinping’s consoli...
Natural Gas Took a Dive. A Warmer Winter Could Keep Prices Down.
Natural-gas prices were poised for their largest yearly percentage rise in 23 years before erasing much of that gain in the span of six sessions this month. The U.S. market shifted from worries about ...
Kaizen Crypto Stake Pool [KAIZN]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool operator who’s a Cardano content creator with his own Youtube channel and operates 4 stake pools: Kaizen Crypto Stake Pool [KAIZN]. Last wee...
Cardano NFT Column: Cardano Lands
This week’s guest on the Cardano NFT Column is a project that reproduces the DeFi model with NFT and allows staking many Cardano NFT collections to earn HEXO tokens: Cardano Lands. Last week’s guest w...
The Stock Market Had a Great Week, but It Hasn’t Gone Anywhere in a Month. Inside a Very Volatile Market.
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Coca-Cola and 4 Other Quality Stocks to Bolster Your Portfolio
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Cardano SPO Column: SWAG [SWAG]
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool operator who stumbled upon Cardano during the bull run of 2017 and has been involved in the community ever since: SWAG [SWAG]. Last week’s g...
It’s Been a Rough Year for Stocks and Bonds. What to Do in 2023.
With more than a month to go, 2022 is all but certain to go down as an annus horribilis for both stocks and bonds. The crucial question for investors: What does that portend for the year ahead? The re...