Stocks

Santa Rally 2024: Why The Bulls Should Charge Through December

Santa Rally 2024: Why The Bulls Should Charge Through December

Can this red-hot market rally continue throughout the holiday season? Key Takeaways: With Thanksgiving now in the rearview mirror – and Black Friday and Cyber Monday all wrapped up with a bow – we are charging into the holiday season with gusto. As a matter of fact, after November’s remarkable stock market performance, investors are […]

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These Retail Stocks Benefitted The Most From Record-Setting Black Friday

These Retail Stocks Benefitted The Most From Record-Setting Black Friday

Key Points Apparel and footwear stocks, as well as specialty retailers, outperformed the big box stores and ecommerce giants. Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S., set a record this year for online shopping. Typically, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is a huge day for in-store shopping, but this […]

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Autonomous Vehicles: Why 2025 Will Usher In The Self-Driving Car

Autonomous Vehicles: Why 2025 Will Usher In The Self-Driving Car

We see mind-blowing profit potential ahead for self-driving car stocks Key Takeaways: Thanks to immense technological progress, the world is rapidly changing all around us.  Admittedly, some of these changes are intangible. Big Tech firms, for example, are spending billions of dollars to develop new AI applications. But thus far, many of those projects are […]

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ETFs

How Covered Call ETFs Can Supercharge Your Passive Income

How Covered Call ETFs Can Supercharge Your Passive Income

Covered call ETFs are an amazing investment tool.  With just one trade, you can supercharge your passive income.   These ETFs are best for near-retirees, active investors, and anyone looking to increase the passive income in their portfolio. How do they do it? Covered call ETFs purchase a basket of stocks (Each ETF has a different […]

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How AI Will Change U.S. Infrastructure Forever

How AI Will Change U.S. Infrastructure Forever

Recently, the AI discussion has taken a turn with the realization that the production of advanced AI chips and the building of massive data centers to house those chips will dramatically increase the amount of electric power needed in the U.S. A recent forecast change by Georgia Power illustrates how much power demand will grow […]

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Three Top Cryptocurrency ETFs

Three Top Cryptocurrency ETFs

In January, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the first 11 spot-bitcoin exchange-traded funds, and they have been quite popular with investors. However, they are not the only options for those looking to tap into the fast-growing cryptocurrency industry. Several other ETFs invest in companies that in some way serve the industry. These ETFs might be […]

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Dividend Stocks

Six Yields Up To 12% That Wall Street Can’t Stand

Six Yields Up To 12% That Wall Street Can’t Stand

It’s hard to find a hater right now. Wall Street fanboys analysts have Buy ratings on more than 75% of the S&P 500 at the moment. Give us the Sells. That’s right. We contrarians are not afraid to dumpster dive for dividend value! Today we’ll slam a six-pack of analyst pans yielding between 6.1% and 11.8%. We searched far […]

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3 Funds To Beat Post-Election Volatility, Deliver 8%+ Dividends

3 Funds To Beat Post-Election Volatility, Deliver 8%+ Dividends

With more volatility likely as we move past the election and into late 2024, retirement planning might not be top of mind for you right now. I get it. But with investing—income investing, especially—it’s critical to keep the long term in focus. And over the long term, the direction of the markets is up. When […]

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How To Play China’s New Stimulus Package (At A 17% Discount)

How To Play China’s New Stimulus Package (At A 17% Discount)

When I show you a chart like the one below, your first thought might be that we’re looking at, say, the recent stock performance of NVIDIA (NVDA)—or maybe a biopharma firm that just dropped a breakthrough treatment: Not a Tech Stock—Just a “Boring” Index Fund But you’d be wrong. What we’re looking at here is the iShares MSCI China […]

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Commodities

AI Stabs Renewable Energy In The Heart

AI Stabs Renewable Energy In The Heart

A funny thing happened on the path to massive expansion of wind and solar energy production. That thing is Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI needs massive data centers, which need 99.99999% reliable electric power around the clock. By their very nature, wind and solar power are not reliable enough to provide power 100% of the time. […]

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How To Make A 22% Yield From Rising Silver Prices

How To Make A 22% Yield From Rising Silver Prices

Precious metals—specifically, gold and silver—are having an excellent year. Gold is trading near record highs, and silver is at levels it hasn’t seen for over a decade. Since my strategies focus on income-paying investments, a silver-focused covered call fund gives the best of both worlds. Earlier this year, we launched the first of our high-yield ETF […]

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Buy These Three Top Energy Sector Dividend Stocks Profiting From AI

Buy These Three Top Energy Sector Dividend Stocks Profiting From AI

The news media and investors are rapidly realizing that the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) will require massive increases in available electrical power. And investors have a significant opportunity to profit from AI’s growing need for power. A recent Forbes article titled, “AI Is Pushing The World Toward An Energy Crisis,” includes some interesting facts. The article […]

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Real Estate

Own Your Slice Of Cash Generating Passive Investments

Own Your Slice Of Cash Generating Passive Investments

Does generating passive income on some of the world’s greatest assets sound appealing? I’m excited to share a game-changing concept revolutionizing the investment world: fractional investing. Imagine owning a piece of a cash-flowing rental property in a hot in, demand city, a vacation home in the mountains generating rentals, or even a share of a private, cash-flowing […]

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Navigating The Land Buying Process: Essential Steps For Prospective Buyers

Navigating The Land Buying Process: Essential Steps For Prospective Buyers

It’s a dream come true for many people – owning a piece of land to call your own. Whether it’s for building a home, starting a farm, or using it as an investment, buying land can be a rewarding experience. Buying vacant land follows a similar process as buying a house. The finances, legalities, and […]

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Really Rich REITs: 7 Massive Yields Up To 15%

Really Rich REITs: 7 Massive Yields Up To 15%

Select real estate may be the income investing play for 2024. As I write, seven real estate investment trusts (REITs) are dishing dividends from 8.7% all the way up to 15.4%. These REITs—and their ilk—are literally designed to deliver dividends. That’s how Congress wrote the rules when they legislated these real estate investments into existence back in […]

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Personal Finance

How To Calculate The Exact Year You Can Retire In 6 Steps

How To Calculate The Exact Year You Can Retire In 6 Steps

Retirement can seem like a distant, blurry concept, especially when you’re in the thick of daily life, paying bills, working, and saving what you can. But here’s the truth: retirement isn’t as complicated as it’s often made out to be. Yes, financial gurus throw around terms like “net worth,” “4% rule,” and “compound interest” as […]

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10 Ways To Work Less And Get Paid More

10 Ways To Work Less And Get Paid More

Are you exhausted after a long day of work? Living paycheck-to-paycheck? Too many people think working harder is the way to solve money problems. The truth is you can work less and get paid more, but you have to do it right for the maximum benefit. If hard work guaranteed success we would have a […]

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Why You Are Always Broke

Why You Are Always Broke

Is it easier to earn money or have money? Keep your answer to the side. We’ll be returning to it. In the U.S. the median household income for 2022 was $74,580. That means over the working careers of the wage earners in a household, income will total around $3 million. Of course, most people make less […]

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Santa Rally 2024: Why The Bulls Should Charge Through December

Santa Rally 2024: Why The Bulls Should Charge Through December

| December 5, 2024

Can this red-hot market rally continue throughout the holiday season? Key Takeaways: With Thanksgiving now in the rearview mirror – and Black Friday and Cyber Monday all wrapped up with a bow – we are charging into the holiday season with gusto. As a matter of fact, after November’s remarkable stock market performance, investors are […]

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These Retail Stocks Benefitted The Most From Record-Setting Black Friday

These Retail Stocks Benefitted The Most From Record-Setting Black Friday

| December 3, 2024

Key Points Apparel and footwear stocks, as well as specialty retailers, outperformed the big box stores and ecommerce giants. Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year in the U.S., set a record this year for online shopping. Typically, Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is a huge day for in-store shopping, but this […]

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Six Yields Up To 12% That Wall Street Can’t Stand

Six Yields Up To 12% That Wall Street Can’t Stand

| November 26, 2024

It’s hard to find a hater right now. Wall Street fanboys analysts have Buy ratings on more than 75% of the S&P 500 at the moment. Give us the Sells. That’s right. We contrarians are not afraid to dumpster dive for dividend value! Today we’ll slam a six-pack of analyst pans yielding between 6.1% and 11.8%. We searched far […]

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