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Stock Market This Week – Sunday, Dec. 31

Stock Market This Week – Sunday, Dec. 31

Image Source: PixabayThe past week was a relatively calm one. Many investors tried to lock in gains or engage in tax loss harvesting. That said, I did neither. As a long-term dividend growth investor, I don’t typically engage in year-end selling for gains because I buy to hold. However, I occasionally sell shares or a position […]
Airlines Likely To Fly High In 2024 On Rosy Passenger Revenues

Airlines Likely To Fly High In 2024 On Rosy Passenger Revenues

Image: BigstockIt is no longer news that the airlines space was one of the hardest-hit corners during the pandemic. Airlines incurred huge losses in 2020 and 2021 on dwindling passenger revenues. The situation started to improve in 2022 when the loss was narrower.Airlines across the globe are set to end the current year on a […]
Building Back Wealth Through “Stock Market Real Estate”

Building Back Wealth Through “Stock Market Real Estate”

Image Source: UnsplashLast year, I sat down with Chris Lowe, Editor in Chief for Legacy Research. And as this year comes to a close, this conversation is more relevant than ever. For those who don’t know him, Chris has covered the biggest trends in the investing world for his readers. And one that aligns with the demands […]
Top Picks 2024: Marathon Digital

Top Picks 2024: Marathon Digital

Image Source: UnsplashThere’s one word sure to get eyerolls: Bitcoin. You either love it or believe cryptocurrency is an untenable house of cards. But I’ll show you that, like many other currencies or commodities, Bitcoin enjoys a very predictable, boom-and-bust cycle. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) is a vehicle for profiting from this, writes Matthew Carr, editor of Tipping Point Profits.If you […]
Forever Quantitative Easing: A Perpetual Financial Landscape 
                    
 
 

Forever Quantitative Easing: A Perpetual Financial Landscape    

 Forever Quantitative Easing, Robbing The Poor to Feed the Rich In the world of corporate finance, the use of share buyback programs has become a standard tool for manipulating earnings. By reducing the float of outstanding shares, corporations can artificially boost Earnings Per Share (EPS). This strategy once used sparingly, has become a prevalent practice, often […]
Gold – We Conservatively Forecast 2375 For 2024’s High

Gold – We Conservatively Forecast 2375 For 2024’s High

 ‘Twas a year ago at this time we opted out of forecasting a high price for Gold in 2023, other than to opine ‘twould make a new All-Time High (above that of 2089 from 07 August 2020), which indeed eventuated at 2152 this past 04 December.  Since then, Gold proceeded to settle the year Friday, […]
Best Of Book Bits 2023 – December 31, 2023

Best Of Book Bits 2023 – December 31, 2023

For our final act of 2023, here’s the second installment to Best of Books 2023.Here are the other of books that captured our attention over the preceding 12 months. Happy reading–and Happy New Year! Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization Harold James Summary via publisher Yale U. Press The eminent economic historian Harold James […]
Last CoT Of 2023: How Hedge Funds Are Positioned, What Noncommercials Are Buying

Last CoT Of 2023: How Hedge Funds Are Positioned, What Noncommercials Are Buying

Following futures positions of non-commercials are as of December 26, 2023.10-year note: Currently net short 805k, up 117.4k.Non-commercials are not pulling back. Far from it! Their holdings of net shorts in 10-year note futures went up another 17.1 percent this week, coming on the heels of last week’s 23.5-percent gain, to 804,984 contracts, which is […]
US Dollar Finds Momentum On US Yields Recovery, Closes A 2% Yearly Loss

US Dollar Finds Momentum On US Yields Recovery, Closes A 2% Yearly Loss

The US Dollar (USD)  remains on a subdued tone on the last trading day of 2023. The US Dollar Index (DXY) is positioned at 101.30, shedding daily gains as dovish bets on the Federal Reserve (Fed) weigh heavily on the Greenback. Soft Chicago PMI figures for December also added pressure to the currency on a […]
Charted: Tesla’s Global Sales By Model And Year (2016–2023) 
                    
 
Tesla’s Global Sales Sales Through the Years

Charted: Tesla’s Global Sales By Model And Year (2016–2023)   Tesla’s Global Sales Sales Through the Years

 In the last five years, Tesla stock has exploded upwards more than 800%.From a company that was perpetually on the verge of bankruptcy, Tesla has emerged as the EV manufacturer to beat in the automotive market.A huge part of the success comes from Tesla’s sales which jumped 30x in the same time period.We take a look at the numbers, […]