Can Growth Break Free From the Chop?
In our opinion, there are three main things about the market that make it difficult for most investors to succeed. The first is its contrary nature—oftentimes, many of the same qualities that help you succeed in the world...
Read More
U.S. stocks are at all-time highs, but it's a different story in the United Kingdom. Undervalued U.K. stocks abound. Here are 3 that I like.
Read More
Chinese stocks were hit this week both on American exchanges and overseas as Chinese regulators ratcheted up the pressure through antitrust and regulatory steps that caught many executives and investors off guard. The Golden Dragon index of Chinese technology stocks fell by 15% two...
Read More
It’s been a remarkably strong market, not just since the bottom of the pandemic-driven sell-off a little more than a year ago, but over the past decade.
Read More
The Uber of China – DiDi, has been in the headlines and is caught up in power play over data security and defying authorities in Beijing. All this highlights that Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. should be considered speculative.
Read More
Can’t Shake the Sellers
Because most of us are long-only players (focusing our time looking at what to buy, not short), we usually think of things from the perspective of buyers. There’s nothing wrong with that, per se—a lot of my commentary and analysis focused...
Read More
After last weekend’s successful space flight of Sir Richard Branson, one would have expected Virgin Galactic (SPCE) stock to soar on Monday. Instead, it lost altitude. Sure, the announcement of a $500 million secondary offering leading to dilution was not welcome news, but part of reason...
Read More
The Uber of China – DiDi, has been in the headlines and is caught up in power play over data security and defying authorities in Beijing. All this highlights that Chinese stocks listed in the U.S. should be considered speculative.
Read More
Still Tricky, Still Challenging—but Also Still Improving
Through the first half of the year, 2021 has been about as tricky as we can remember, at least for growth stock investors. Rotation and news-driven moves have been the norm, with many leading (or formerly leading) titles...
Read More
The S&P 500 closed out the second quarter of 2021 at a record high advancing for a fifth consecutive quarter. Meanwhile the Dow and Nasdaq closed just below records and each of these indexes recorded more than 18 record closes during the first of...
Read More
At about the halfway point of 2021, the S&P 500 has returned 14.8% (a good annual return in most years), continuing its remarkable advance from the depths of the pandemic-led sell-off in March 2020.
Read More
The S&P 500 has now gained 90% since its closing low last March. Quite amazing. We now need to look forward and remain optimistic while a bit cautious.
Read More
Still (Mostly) a Meat Grinder
In the last issue we wrote about the baby steps the market had taken since mid-May—it wasn’t anything decisive, but after suffering a ton of damage, growth stocks were slowly improving, with some big-volume rallies, more stocks setting up multi-month...
Read More
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convened on Wednesday and Chairman Jerome Powell and colleagues seem to be inclined to raise benchmark rates sometime next year. At least for now, the Fed kept rates on hold and signaled it would continue its quantitative easing.
Read More
The market has been subdued for the last few weeks as investors weigh how far the market has come against the risks of rising inflation, supply-chain problems and the possibility of higher taxes.
Read More
Baby Steps
Three weeks ago, growth stocks were in ruins, and we don’t think that’s much of an exaggeration—while the Nasdaq was only 8.5% off its high, things like the Russell 2000 Growth Fund (IWO), which we write about later in this issue, sat than...
Read More
The market seems to have found its footing this week as the economy reopens amidst some supply shortages and inflationary pressures. Electric vehicle stocks are coming back as Ford announced a big push into EVs and its new F-150 Lightning received 70,000 deposits just...
Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average just turned 125, and it's still going strong. Investing in this Dow ETF is a good way to take advantage.
Read More
Markets continue to consolidate and churn with solid earnings offsetting concerns over inflation and valuations.
Read More
Good investment ideas can come from anywhere. One useful source is to borrow ideas from like-minded investors.
Read More
Call Financial Freedom Federation Customer Service at
(800) 777-2658
