If You Could Only Buy 1 High-Income Fund, What Would It Be?
Options trading is sometimes viewed as risky and that reputation is well-earned, especially when selling calls and puts naked. But when combined with stock ownership in the form of a covered call, it can be quite a conservative strategy.
Similar to the popular ETFs that track indexes like the S&P 500, a covered call ETF can be bought and sold like a stock, » Read more about: If You Could Only Buy 1 High-Income Fund, What Would It Be? »
Read MoreSpotlight: What to Buy If Things Get Crazy Soon
Among the first lessons any great investor learns is “Don’t Fight The Fed.” Simply put, it means when the Fed is accommodative and engaging in quantitative easing, money is cheap and economies boom. Some call this the Fed Put because as markets fall, the Federal Reserve acts swiftly to provide liquid support by buying bonds.
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Read MoreWhy This Beverage Giant Can’t Be Toppled
A famous book on business was titled Barbarians at the Gate, documenting the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. If nothing else, it highlights how just the sniff of an opportunity to make money can drive money seekers to make wild decisions.
Some giant businesses have been on the receiving end of similar threats to their solvency as invaders attempt to take their share.
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Read MoreSpotlight: Billionaire Loads Up on Unlikely Stock
You may not be familiar with Global Blue but it’s certainly grabbed the attention of the investment team at Third Point, run by billionaire Dan Loeb, who have got excited about it and understandably so when you peel back the covers.
The company specializes in tax-free shopping but it’s expanding into financial technology services,
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Read MoreWill This AI Stock Be the Ultimate Comeback Story?
SportRadar first came to the attention of most investors when the firm debuted on the public markets amid much fanfare a few years ago.
Then the hype surrounding the company was rooted in SportRadar’s role as a leader in sports data intelligence, which is key to the sports betting industry.
The company had formed a series of partnerships with major sports leagues and provided data to sportsbooks.
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NVIDIA Investing In Tiny Robotics Firm, Should You Follow?
NVIDIA gets a lot of attention for designing some of the world’s most powerful GPUs. It’s difficult to imagine that the recent advancements in artificial intelligence would have happened without NVIDIA. After all, OpenAI trained ChatGPT with 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs connected to a Microsoft supercomputer.
But NVIDIA actually does much more than build efficient processing units.
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Up 10x Is Palantir Still a Deal?
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) has been one of the undisputed victors in the AI boom and has defined the stock market for the past two years.
In the last 12 months alone, PLTR shares are up more than 350% on the back of rapid growth in the commercial business and tremendous investor enthusiasm for AI applications in the corporate world.
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Not what it seems: Clarifying the DOGE allegations about Social Security
Many readers have been emailing me asking for my help in understanding the allegations made by Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency about sloppy recordkeeping at the Social Security Administration. Here are three typical questions.
Q: What is going on with the DOGE reports about Social Security recipients who are supposedly 120 years old?
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