Stock Picks

The Average Joe: Intel’s Multi-Billion Dollar US Foundry Expansion Is Killing Its Stock, But It Could Also Save Its Future

Semiconductor manufacturers have been a big hit with the market over the past year. While most of these companies aren’t ...
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May 3, 2024 /

The Average Joe: Alphabet’s AI Comeback Spells Upside for the Stock

The past 18 months has seen a massive surge in interest in all things AI. Big tech companies have announced ...
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April 19, 2024 /

Stock Picks, Trading Strategies

Let’s Talk Money!: Top 5 Stocks to Buy for 2024 Returns

The stock market rallied about 10% in the first quarter of 2024. That’s the kind of return that usually takes ...
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April 5, 2024 /

Joseph Carlson: Top Ten Deep Value Stocks for 2024

For most of 2023, big-cap tech stocks dragged the overall market index higher. Since the October lows and swing higher, ...
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December 22, 2023 /

TipRanks: 2 “Strong Buy” Tech Stocks That Are Set to Benefit from the AI Revolution

The market has been infatuated with AI stocks since the launch of ChatGPT last November. It’s become clear that generative ...
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August 25, 2023 /

Joseph Carlson: 3 Stocks I’m Buying Today

For long-term investors, there are three simple steps that can lead to effective results. First, investors should buy good companies ...
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July 7, 2023 /

Data Driven Investor: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the World

The phrase artificial intelligence (AI) has been a buzzword for traders this year. Companies talking up their AI plans have ...
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June 30, 2023 /

Value Walk: Long-Duration Investing – Not the Cool Kids

Markets have changed rapidly. After being popular in the past decade, technology stocks aren’t the massive return plays that they ...
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January 13, 2023 /

The Maverick of Wall Street: Nancy Pelosi Buys the Dip

It’s been no secret that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has managed to become one of the best traders ...
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June 10, 2022 /

Money For the Rest of Us: Is It Time to Invest in Big Tech or Medium Tech Stocks?

Most tech stocks are down at least 20 percent from their 52-week highs. Many are in far worse shape. One ...
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May 6, 2022 /

Morningstar Investing Insights: What You Need to Know About Utilities Stocks, Inflation and 3 Top Stocks

Investors have pivoted away from growth to more defensive stocks in recent months. While many top funds and investors are ...
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April 15, 2022 /

Emerging Markets Could Be Leading Global Markets

Emerging markets, as a group, remain more than 20% below their recent peak. A decline of 20% is the commonly ...
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May 27, 2019 /

These Could Be the Best Recession Stocks

As the last recession, and bear market, was accelerating, a research report identified the stocks that had performed the best ...
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May 17, 2019 /

Cheap Gold Miners

Gold prices have been in a trading range for some time and could be considered bullish based on the chart ...
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May 14, 2019 /

Six Stocks Under $5 Designed for the Worst Six Months

We are now officially in the seasonally bearish worst six months, the time of year characterized by the popular saying ...
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May 9, 2019 /

Another Sign of a Top

Market analysts often say that they don’t ring a bell at the top indicating that there is never a loud ...
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May 6, 2019 /

Five Stocks Under $5 That Warren Buffett Might Buy, If He Could

Warren Buffett is a great investor, but he really can not do everything that we, as individual investors, can do ...
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May 3, 2019 /

This Could Be the Best Electric Vehicle Trade

While very few things seem to be certain in the stock market, there is one statement that seems to hold ...
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April 30, 2019 /

Here’s Why You Should Know Your CEO’s Age

Value investing is one of the simple concepts in finance that is difficult in practice. The concept is to buy ...
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April 23, 2019 /

This Precious Metal Could Be a Buy Right Now

Gold is often considered an investment, but others might believe it is more. The Asia Times recently noted, “gold quietly ...
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April 18, 2019 /

This Could Be the Biggest Winner of the Driverless Car Revolution

Traders are excited about driverless cars. They see a tremendous investment opportunity. Driverless cars, also referred to as autonomous vehicles, ...
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April 16, 2019 /

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Next IPO

Lyft (Nasdaq: LYFT) has already started trading and Uber is capturing headlines. These are companies that were unicorns and are ...
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April 15, 2019 /

Shaq Might Just Be the Next Oprah

On the day that the yield curve inverted, one of the biggest winners on Wall Street was a pizza maker ...
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March 27, 2019 /

Gold’s Pullback Could Show It’s Time to Buy

Investors know that price trends are interrupted by countertrend moves. In other words, prices move neither straight up nor straight ...
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March 8, 2019 /

Four Warren Buffett Stocks Trading Under $10

Like many investors, we spend a great deal of time studying Warren Buffett. In our research, we concluded that there ...
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March 6, 2019 /

Cybersecurity Could Be the Next Big Thing for Investors

No matter what your political opinion is, if you follow politics you understand there is a potential threat to the ...
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September 5, 2018 /

Trading the Fed Chairman’s Jackson Hole Speech

Every August, economists from around the world converge on Jackson Hole, Wyoming for one of the most important conferences of ...
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August 29, 2018 /

These Could Be the Best Digital Marketing Trades

Advertising is big business because it is the business of persuading consumers. Advertisers have courted consumers for hundreds of years, ...
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August 22, 2018 /

This Investment Offers Growth and an Ethical Dilemma

When investors think of growth, they often look to tech sectors. They want to find the next killer app or ...
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August 15, 2018 /

Value and Tech Can Go Together

Value stocks are often thought of as slow growing, older companies. Utility stocks are often a favorite of value investors ...
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August 8, 2018 /

The Next Big Thing in Biotech and How You Can Trade This Development

Investors never get to sit back and think about success. They are always on the lookout for the next thing, ...
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August 1, 2018 /

Research Proves It’s Easy to Beat the Stock Market

For many years, investors have often been told that it’s impossible to beat the stock market. This is the reason ...
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July 25, 2018 /

This Sector Appears to Be on the Path to Recovery

Traders can find value in a top down investing style. This methodology, as its name implies, starts at the top ...
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July 18, 2018 /

A Whole New Group Develops in the Stock Market

Investors sometimes think of groups as relatively unchanging. There is the mining sector, the railroads, auto makers and other clearly ...
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July 11, 2018 /

Follow a Nobel Prize Winning Economist into This Sector

Let’s face it. Investing is hard work. Finance professors figured that out a long time ago. One, Harry Markowitz, realized ...
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July 4, 2018 /

How to Trade Oil Prices, Whether They Rise or Fall

Oil prices are a constant concern. Consumers worry about higher prices because gas and transportation expenses rise with oil prices ...
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June 27, 2018 /

Three Buys in a Sector that Greases the Wheels of Commerce

Retailers have been struggling over the past few years and many investors are scouting the sector in search of trading ...
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June 20, 2018 /

An Industry Income Investors Might Overlook

In many cases, individuals divide stocks into income or growth categories. In many cases, the categories are mutually exclusive. That ...
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June 13, 2018 /

The FBI Highlights a Trading Opportunity

Source: FBI.gov Recently, the FBI issued a report recommending that everyone reboot their routers. They found that, "foreign cyber actors ...
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June 6, 2018 /

Pet Spending Could Drive These Stocks

Pet owners tend to treat their animals well. This includes feeding them high quality foods and ensuring they receive the ...
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May 30, 2018 /

Higher Interest Rates Could Hurt These Stocks

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates and is expected to deliver more rate hikes before the end of the ...
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May 23, 2018 /

Gaining Insights from a Private Company

More and more research is being done on behavioral finance in an effort to understand how investors think. Research has ...
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May 16, 2018 /

News on Iran Affects More Than Oil

On Tuesday, as expected, President Trump announced that the U.S. will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. The President was ...
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May 9, 2018 /

This Sector Could Be the Biggest Etail Winner

Etailers, the companies that sell online products, are adding to the problems of traditional retailers. Some might say that etailers ...
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May 2, 2018 /

The Next Big Trend for Traders Is Another Sin Industry

Among the biggest trends in the stock market in recent years has been marijuana. It has been legalized in many ...
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April 25, 2018 /

Conflicts, highlight investment opportunities

Last weekend, President Trump ordered military strikes in Syria, a response to the Syrian government’s decision to launch a chemical ...
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April 18, 2018 /

Trade Woes Will Drive Stocks, and These Stocks Could Be the Winners

Stocks have been rallying after fears of a trade war between the United States and China eased. Reports noted that, ...
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April 11, 2018 /

Stocks Analysts Like, and Some They Dislike

Analysts were generally optimistic after companies reported results last quarter. They were, in fact, historically optimistic. We can see how ...
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April 4, 2018 /

This Industry Could Lead the Market Lower

Source: Intel.com Stock prices have been volatile in the past few weeks and we could be in the early stages ...
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March 28, 2018 /

Macrotrends Point to These Stocks as Potential Winners

Traders often focus on the daily moves in the stock market. They might look at the change in the S&P ...
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March 21, 2018 /

An ETF Highlights Stocks to Buy

We often think of exchange traded funds, or ETFs, as investment vehicles. That is, after all, their primary purpose. An ...
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March 14, 2018 /

Tariff Talk Could Move These Sectors

Stocks reacted with a sell off on what traders are calling “the tariffs announcement.” Last week, President Donald Trump suddenly ...
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March 7, 2018 /

This Is the Best Sector For a Bear Market

Traders spend a great deal of time thinking about the markets they trade. This is natural since their success is ...
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February 28, 2018 /

This Sector Could Lead the Market Higher

Traders have been whipsawed in February as market volatility increased. The selloff which took prices of the S&P 500 Index, ...
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February 21, 2018 /

A Sector That Marijuana Could Push to Higher Highs

The bear market is a distant memory for many investors. It was 2008 when stocks began plunging and by March ...
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February 14, 2018 /

Analysts Say Look at This Sector as Stocks Rebound

Stocks fell sharply over the past week. The S&P 500 dropped 9.5% below its all time high. The Dow Jones ...
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February 7, 2018 /

Watch For Mergers and Acquisitions, and Big Gains, In This Sector

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are among the events that move markets. But, M&A activity tends to be unpredictable. The recent ...
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January 31, 2018 /

Artificial Intelligence: From Buzzword to Investment Strategy

Investment news, and even general news stories, tend to be filled with exciting buzzwords about technology. There are driverless cars ...
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January 24, 2018 /