Joseph Carlson: Google’s Dominance Is Over
Earnings season is winding down. Big tech companies saved the market from potentially selling off after their multi-month rally. Chipmakers have been leading the way,
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The D&O Diary: Thinking About Warren Buffett’s Latest Letter to Berkshire Shareholders
Consistently outperforming the stock market is challenging. Many professional investors fail over time. A few good years are quickly forgotten amid years of underperformance. There have
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BiggerPockets: Generational Wealth 101 and Getting Started in a Tough Market
Investing is putting wealth to work to create more wealth over time. For some investors, saving to buy a home or take a vacation is the
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Dividend Growth Investor: Eighteen Companies Rewarding Shareholders With a Raise
Whether the market moves up or down, stocks are just fractions of a business. Some of those businesses decide to use their excess cash flows to
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George Gammon: Interview: Hedge Fund Manager Reveals Secrets You’ll Never Hear on CNBC
While the mainstream view is that the economy is faring well, as evidenced by the stock market near all-time highs, there are other views. One
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The Lead-Lag Report: Dissecting the AI Revolution’s Economic Ripple Effects
AI has been the market’s hot trend for over a year now. It’s allowed many big-tech companies playing to the trend to reach
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Elliott Wave Options: S&P Worries Inflation Too Hot! … Correction Coming?
Last week’s economic data showed that both consumer and producer inflation is staying higher than expected. That’s a concern for the market, as declining
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Swan Bitcoin: Bitcoin Hits $50K – FOMO Rally to All Time Highs Next?
2024 could be a breakout year for bitcoin. The cryptocurrency more than doubled in 2023 from its 2022 lows. But the approval and trading of 11
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The Average Joe Investor: I Back-Tested a Covered Call Strategy with Real Option Data
Investors have several ways to increase their income. That can include investing in dividend growth stocks. Or investing high-yield stocks such as real estate investment
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Data Driven Investor: Why the Normalcy Bias is Dangerous for Investors
Sometimes, investors get caught in market changes like a deer in the headlights. We tend to have a great few years of market performance between sharp
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A Wealth of Common Sense: Is the U.S. Stock Market Too Concentrated?
Currently, six stocks in the S&P 500 have market caps of over $1 trillion. That’s up from zero a decade ago. And the
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FX Evolution: Stocks Might Have Just Made a Big Switch
After hitting all-time highs last week, cracks have started to appear in the stock market. This could be a moment where markets make a healthy
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