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Making Money Alert: The Honey Badger Stock Market
The Honey Badger Stock Market Stocks just want to go higher, and it doesn’t matter if the Fed is going to peel back quantitative easing, or if GDP growth in the second quarter is going to be a pathetic 1%. Buyers just keep buying, and that means stocks have recovered all of what they lost […]
Don’t Let the Uncertainty Turn You Around
Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could disappear Along with whatever meaning you might have found Don’t let the uncertainty turn you around –Jackson Browne, “For A […]
ETF Talk: Capitalizing on Japan’s Economic Uptick
The Bank of Japan released a report on July 12 that revealed the country’s first real signs of economic recovery since 2011. Combined with the continued astonishing rise of the Japanese markets, it may be time to take another bite of the Japanese apple. The exchange-traded fund (ETF) best positioned to tap these recent developments […]
The Honey Badger Stock Market
Stocks just want to go higher, and it doesn’t matter if the Fed is going to peel back quantitative easing, or if GDP growth in the second quarter is going to be a pathetic 1%. Buyers just keep buying, and that means stocks have recovered all of what they lost during the “taper” scare in […]
Wisdom on Laziness
“There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.” –Christopher Hitchens The late writer certainly was a controversial figure, but here I think this bit of wisdom is anything but controversial. No matter what side of an issue you’re on, don’t let your opinion be […]
Making Money Alert: Interest Rates — Up, Up and Away!
Interest Rates — Up, Up and Away! The biggest news in the market right now is the rise in long-term interest rates, i.e. the spike we’ve seen in long-term Treasury bond yields. Last Friday, interest rates, as measured by the yield on the 10-Year Treasury note, spiked to 2.71%, the highest level for this key […]
ETF Talk: Investing in Japan’s Interest Rate Policy
To follow up on last week’s ETF Talk about profiting from Japan’s “Abenomics,” this week we will explain how to profit directly from the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) monetary policy. An ETF that hinges and swings on the results of the BoJ’s interest rate decision and the related performance of the Nikkei index is the MSCI […]
ETF Investors Take Note, a Quarterly Wrap Up
The second quarter of what has been a big year for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) now is in the books, but how do you keep track of the 1,200-plus ETFs currently available? The answer is the Fabian ETF Report. In fact, our latest version of the ETF Report has just been released, and you can get […]
Interest Rates — Up, Up and Away!
The biggest news in the market right now is the rise in long-term interest rates, i.e. the spike we’ve seen in long-term Treasury bond yields. Last Friday, interest rates, as measured by the yield on the 10-Year Treasury note, spiked to 2.71%, the highest level for this key metric in nearly two years. That spike […]
Making Money Alert: The Liquidation Cycle and Wall Street Fireworks
The Liquidation Cycle and Wall Street Fireworks The saga continues in the bond markets, with the sector moving completely out of whack since the Fed’s talk about tapering its easy-money policies entered the global investing consciousness. Recall that in last week’s Making Money Alert, we discussed the liquidation cycle in global equities, emerging markets and […]
Jim Woods is a 30-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor.
His books include co-authoring, “Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution,” and “The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse.” He’s also ghostwritten many books and articles, as well as edited content for some of the investment industry’s biggest luminaries. Read more about Jim Woods.
