Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Each week, the Charlie Bilello Week in Charts email includes a ton of interesting economic and financial information. Recently, a set of asset yields caught my attention. Here are the reported yields on the five major U.S. asset classes: The spread of less than one percent between yields across the classes is a record low. […]
The 10 highest yield dividend stocks going ex-div this week. These are some of the top dividend stocks for this week.
Over just a few years, ETFs using covered call strategies to generate income and dividends have become a massive phenomenon. These funds fall into two broad categories. There are covered call ETFs that use index ETFs or actively managed portfolios as their underlying assets, and there are single-stock covered call ETFs. The latter gives investors […]
There is a widespread belief that renewable energy sources are replacing traditional hydrocarbon energy sources. That is not the case. Here is the global crude oil demand for the last 20 years. Consumption has grown from 83.65 million barrels per day (mbpd) in 2005 to a forecast of 105.5 mbpd for 2025. The use of […]
The financial news media generally ignore gold and silver. You should not. While stocks now trade flat year-to-date, gold is up 29%, and the yellow metal has gained 45% over the past 12 months. It seems likely that the gold rally will continue. Foreign central banks are accumulating gold, while Chinese citizens are also increasing […]
With our ETF Income Edge service, we discuss, educate, and recommend ETFs from the newish—and rapidly growing—universe of high-yield option-strategy ETFs. With mid-year approaching, I thought it would be a good time to review year-to-date results. You may recall that the U.S. stock market experienced a rapid and steep decline from mid-February through early April. […]
There is a great “truth” put out by the financial advisory community that with ETFs, expense ratios are the only thing that matters. Lower expenses mean investors earn a greater return. Following Vanguard, which earlier this year cut fees on 66 funds, Schwab recently announced fee reductions on four ETFs with $66 billion in assets. […]
Confession: I had little interest in cryptocurrencies until companies started offering covered call strategy ETFs using Bitcoin. These funds provide me and my subscribers with an excellent opportunity to make money. However, even with the income from option selling, accumulating shares of these Bitcoin funds should happen over time and methodically. From its history, it […]
The term “Magnificent Seven” was coined in 2023 by a Bank of America analyst to label the mega-cap tech stocks of Apple, Alphabet (Google), Amazon.com, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook), Microsoft, NVIDIA Corp., and Tesla. These stocks account for up to 40% of the market capitalization of major indexes, and they largely drove the 2023-2025 bull […]
On March 7, 2024, Roundhill Investments launched the first 0DTE (zero days to expiration) covered call exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These funds introduce new strategies to the ETF space, enabling fund managers to respond to rapidly changing markets with greater speed and agility. Traditional covered call trading involves owning an underlying asset (such as individual stocks […]
