Will Markets Go Up Now That Trump Is President?
Donald Trump was the first president in modern U.S. history to take office without holding a prior public office or serving in the military. This non-traditional path to the White House came with a distinctly corporate approach to economic and fiscal policy, one that both excited and unnerved investors in equal measure.
Key Points
- Trump’s focus on tax cuts,
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1 Weird Seasonal Trend Starting Now
Some things can’t easily be explained in the stock market and seasonal trends rank right up there among the conundrums that puzzle even the smartest investors.
Take for example the case of frozen potato processor Lamb Weston that has a weird seasonal trend starting now. It’s a bit difficult to understand precisely why such a powerful force starts at this time of year for the firm,
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Billionaires Are All In, Are You?
It’s come as a bit of a surprise to many astute observers to see billionaires go all in on oil. For instance, in Warren Buffett’s top 6 holdings, 2 are oil stocks, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum.
Buffett has taken massive stakes in both companies. In Chevron, he holds an $18.8 billion stake while in Occidental the amount is $14.1 billion.
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Crazy Great Depression Stat Scares Investors
Some things only look crazy in hindsight. Did anyone in 1929 know they were on the cusp of The Great Depression? A tiny minority, at best. The rest, well, they all piled into stocks, and a just few of them too.
Fast forward almost a century and investors appear to be committing the same financial crime,
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3 Dividend Stocks Worth Buying Now?
Thanks to surging stock prices over the past two years, dividend yields on major stock indices have fallen to fairly low levels. The S&P 500, for instance, currently carries an average yield of just 1.3%.
The mature companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average fare a bit better, and some of them offer yields that exceed the S&P 500 several times over.
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1 High-Yield Casino REIT That Keeps Raising Dividends
VICI Properties (NYSE:VICI) is a REIT that specializes in hotel and casino properties. Spun off from Caesar Entertainment in 2017, the company owns several of the most prominent properties in the United States.
Assets owned by VICI include Caesar’s Palace and The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Chelsea Piers in New York and the Hard Rock Casino in Cincinnati.
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1 Stock Buffett Likes More Than Apple
Stocks have pulled back in the past month, as interest rates and inflation continue to dog the market. The AI excitement that gripped investors earlier in the year has abated somewhat, leading to recent pullbacks in stocks like Nvidia and Microsoft.
Apple has struggled to make an impact with investors because the company has lagged behind its competitors in launching AI-powered products.
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Goldman Sachs Predicts Stock Market Rally, Says Recession ‘Not in the Base Case’ – Here’s Why
The chief US equity strategist at one of the largest financial institutions in the world says the stock market is set to rally further.
In a new interview with CNBC, Goldman Sachs executive David Kostin says “hard data” may soon override some of the “soft data” that has caused uncertainty in markets.