In June, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil traded in the mid-$60s. Three months later, it’s pushing $95 per barrel, with market expectations that it will soon be above $100. Due to the lag between business results and the quarterly earnings reports, it’s not too late to jump on some energy stocks for their upcoming […]
10 Highest Yield Dividend Stocks Going Ex-Div This Week
The 10 highest yield dividend stocks going ex-div this week. These are some of the top dividend stocks for 2022.
The Energy Sector Posting Record Profits
Our colleague, Tim Plaehn, wrote an interesting article this week titled: “Here’s how to profit off the gasoline price spike.” In case you haven’t noticed, the price of gasoline at the pump has been going up lately. According to AAA, a gallon of gasoline is $3.88—its highest level since October 2022. One reason for the […]
Is There an Investment Opportunity Building in the SHY ETF?
Lately, I’ve really been liking the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY). The SHY ETF tracks and represents the performance of the U.S. Treasury bonds with remaining maturities between one and three years. It lets investors target a part of the short-term U.S. Treasury market. Bond prices have been going lower for some time […]
Two Special Opportunities for This Rough Market
It should come as no secret that I am not wildly bullish on the future of the stock market. Everything I see indicates that the long-term returns from stocks will be low to worse than that for several years, if not longer. If that is a surprise to you, I did a webinar on Monday […]
The Wall Street Journal Finally Gets a Clue
I was pleasantly surprised to read a recent Wall Street Journal article highlighting the investment benefits of Business Development Companies (BDCs). The article included a couple of BDCs that are on my Dividend Hunter recommended portfolio. Let’s dig in, and take a look at why these BDCs are such great income investments… The WSJ article […]
A Single Stock Powering Innovation
In the days before software, if engineers wanted to know if an idea worked, they would first have to build a three-dimensional physical model. But this method had one major flaws: not everything scales linearly. What worked fine on a smaller scale may turn into a disaster when made larger. Thankfully, today, we have simulation […]
Trade of the Week: PATH
Last week, in our 48-Hour Income service, we sold a cash-secured put on software automation company UiPath (PATH). In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. PATH was about to announce earnings that week, and its puts looked expensive. […]
A Slowdown is Inevitable – Prepare With These Investments
It’s coming. You cannot stop it. The media cannot stop it by declaring it will not happen. The economy is going to slow down. A recession is still more likely than not. Even if the Fed stops raising rates (which is almost entirely dependent on energy and rent prices at this point), they will not […]
Here’s How to Profit Off the Gasoline Price Spike
Last week, I went to fuel up my pickup truck and was shocked to see that gas prices had jumped overnight by $0.40 per gallon. Ouch! I started digging into the cause, looking for an investment angle. What I found reinforced my belief in what I think is one of the best investment opportunities in […]