February 23, 2023 @ 10:35 pm | Breaking News, UNG |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-forty-first YouTube video: Quick Pick U.S. Natural Gas Fund Want to grow your portfolio and protect it too? In the toughest investing market in 40 years? Grab my new eBook, Your Best Investing Strategy for the Next 5 Years:...
February 21, 2023 @ 7:47 pm | Breaking News, CCJ, Jubak Picks Portfolio |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-ninth YouTube video: Quick Pick Cameco Today’s Quick Pick: Cameco (NYSE: CCJ). I’m not a fan of nuclear power. Relying on an energy source that produces waste that will remain radioactive for thousands of years when...
February 20, 2023 @ 11:10 am | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-eighth YouTube video: You Can Get 5% (in a CD) This week’s Trend of the Week is: You Can Get 5% (In a CD). Thank you, Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve. Recently we’ve seen a huge rally in short-term yields....
February 16, 2023 @ 10:07 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-seventh YouTube video: Sell! Time to Take Some Rally Profits Today’s topic is: Sell! Time to Take Some Rally Profits. Wednesday’s rally had all the earmarks of a blow-out-the-top rally. Though it wasn’t a huge...
February 6, 2023 @ 7:31 pm | Breaking News, EEM, EUM |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-third YouTube video: Trend of the Week China Accelerates This week’s Trend of the Week: China Accelerates. There is a horrific death toll in China as the country’s COVID policy changed dramatically, allowing COVID...
February 2, 2023 @ 10:10 pm | Breaking News, Dividend Income Portfolio, INTC |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-second YouTube video: Quick Pick Intel Today’s Quick Pick: Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Intel’s revenue and earnings report last week was terrible. It was a classic kitchen sink quarter, where the company laid out all the...
February 1, 2023 @ 10:40 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-thirty-first YouTube video: Now It’s May for the Fed’s Pause Today’s topic is: Now It’s May for the Fed’s Pause. There wasn’t a lot of suspense about today’s Fed meeting. The CME FedWatch...
January 25, 2023 @ 11:06 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-seventh YouTube video: Trend of the Week Speculation and Investing This week’s Trend of the Week: Speculation and Investing. Prior to the bank earnings and guidance numbers being released a week ago, the market was on the...
January 20, 2023 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth YouTube video: Quick Pick Sell UUP This week’s Quick Pick: Sell UUP–the dollar ETF. I had the Invesco DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund (NYSEARCA: UUP) in my portfolio through 2022 while the dollar was doing...
January 9, 2023 @ 10:53 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Trend of the Week Watch Credit Card Debt After Christmas This week’s Trend of the Week: Watch Credit Card Debt After Christmas. Christmas is a huge anomaly when it comes to the stock market and...
January 7, 2023 @ 6:04 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Quick Pick Watch Tesla This week’s Quick Pick isn’t a “buy,” it’s a “watch.” Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) saw its stock down 37% in December–not for the year, but in...
January 5, 2023 @ 10:15 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twentieth YouTube video: Everybody (Well, Almost Everybody Hates 2023 (Almost) everybody hates 2023. We’re just four days into 2023 and we’ve already had some negative reporting come from the IMF, (International Monetary...
December 26, 2022 @ 10:45 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twenty-first YouTube video: Trend of the Week Oil is Back or 2023 This week’s Trend of the Week: Oil is Back for 2023. We’re looking at a great set-up for oil going forward into 2023. Oil performed well in 2022, so...
December 12, 2022 @ 4:00 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifteenth YouTube video: Trend of the Week Nattering Nabobs of Negativity This week’s Trend of the Week: Nattering Nabobs of Negativity. Spiro Agnew’s alliterative expression comes to mind as I listen to institutional Wall...
December 8, 2022 @ 10:11 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifteenth YouTube video: Quick Pick Pilbara Minerals This week’s Quick Pick is Pilbara Minerals (OTCMKTS: PILBF). Pilbara is an Australian hard rock lithium producer. Hard rock lithium comes from mining spodumene deposits as...
December 1, 2022 @ 7:52 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-twelfth YouTube video: Quick Pick Defiance Quantum ETF This week’s Quick Pick is Defiance Quantum ETF (NYSEArca: QTUM). I recommend this great piece in Barron’s this week from Eric J. Savitz on the future of Quantum...
November 28, 2022 @ 7:26 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-ninth YouTube video: Is the Fed Confusing or Just Confused? Today’s topic: Is The Fed Confusing, or Just Confused? First, Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed came out with a very mixed message about the Fed’s...
November 22, 2022 @ 11:13 pm | Breaking News, NI |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-eighth YouTube video: Quick Pick NiSource This week’s Quick Pick is NiSource (NYSE: NI). If you saw my last Trend of the Week video, you know that I believe the dip in utilities represents a good buying opportunity as utilities...
November 17, 2022 @ 7:51 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-seventh YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: Time for Utilities? I think it is. Looking at Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU), you can see the recent dip in utilities, which means yields are up. On top of that, I...
November 16, 2022 @ 8:10 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-sixth YouTube video Today’s topic: 10% More to this Rally? The S&P rose above 4,000 Tuesday morning leading investors and analysts to forecast this rally climbing about 10% higher. Looking at a chart of the S&P 500 for...
November 14, 2022 @ 7:20 pm | Breaking News, COP, Jubak Picks Portfolio, PXD |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fifth YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: U.S. Oil Production is Not Rising as Expected. Oil prices have averaged $100 per barrel over 2022–a figure that would normally lead oil companies to expand production and...
November 10, 2022 @ 7:13 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-fourth YouTube video. This week’s Quick Pick is Anheuser-Busch Inbev (NYSE: BUD). Beer is a good counter-cyclical consumer good because demand for beer doesn’t really go down during a recession. Anheuser-Busch is a...
November 9, 2022 @ 11:18 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-third YouTube video. Today’s topic: Capital Cycles and Recession – they are not the same thing. When we talk about a recession, we’re largely talking about a consumer demand recession. Separately, there is a...
November 7, 2022 @ 7:36 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-second YouTube video. This week’s Trend of the Week: Mud Season in Ukraine. During World War II, the western powers were hoping for a tough mud season to slow down the war and make it harder for Germans to race into Poland....
November 3, 2022 @ 7:23 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my two-hundred-and-first YouTube video: Quick Pick Brazil ETF EWZ This week’s Quick Pick is Brazil, iShares MSCI Brazil ETF (NYSEARCA: EWZ). While the election in Brazil isn’t totally over with an actual concession speech, it’s clear...
November 1, 2022 @ 6:53 pm | Breaking News |
Today I posted my one-hundred-ninety-ninth YouTube video: Quick Pick GM This week’s Quick Pick is General Motors (NYSE: GM). On Monday morning, October 25, GM announced third-quarter revenue earnings of $41.89 billion-slightly below the $42 billion that Wall...
September 21, 2022 @ 6:02 pm | Breaking News |
Ford (NYSE: F) came out on Monday with a pre-announcement on third-quarter earnings that was pretty grim – not just for them, but for the market and global economy as a whole. Instead of Ford’s expected $3 billion in operating profits for the third...
September 19, 2022 @ 7:24 pm | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-seventy-seventh YouTube video: “Trend of the Week Seasonal Patterns” went up today. For today’s Trend of the Week, we’re looking at the calendar and yearly stock patterns. September is notoriously the worst-performing month...
July 14, 2022 @ 7:09 pm | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-fifty-seventh YouTube video “Inflation isn’t about to get better” went up today. Yesterday, we had new CPI inflation numbers, and the bar keeps pushing higher with annual inflation reaching 9.1% in June. I think if you are making...
July 13, 2022 @ 2:21 pm | Breaking News |
My one-hundred-and-fifty-third YouTube video “Trend of the Week: The Global Debt Bomb is Ticking” went up today. Overly dramatic? I don’t think so. In this week’s video, I look at the few countries that are leading what looks to me like a...