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With the retail sector in turmoil following dismal earnings almost across the board in the sector this week, TJX Companies’ (NYSE: TJX) earnings report on Tuesday will be a breath of fresh air to investors.
As heads were still spinning from Kohls’ and Home Depot’s reports and th... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | One small fund tied to artificial intelligence stocks delivered $1,051 in a single month, not through selling shares or trading options, but simply by holding the fund and letting it pay out cash every Thursday.
That works out to a 34% annualized distribution rate, even though the underlying AI stocks pay no dividends themselves.
Tim Plaehn, Chief Income Strategist at Investors Alley, breaks down exactly how the fund generates these weekly payouts. | | Watch the free presentation to see how the payouts work |
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Markets | | The widely accepted belief that markets can’t be timed is typical conventional thinking. In reality, markets are timed every trading day by numerous algorithmic trading programs. Timing as it applies to forecasting and trading the direction and magnitude of a price move within a specific span ... Read the Full Story |
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The medical technology industry—also known as the medical device industry—produces and sells medical devices used to treat, diagnose, or prevent diseases. The medical device industry covers a wide range of different types of products, but does not include pharmaceutical drugs (which is... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Warren Buffett's largest stock bet ever now tops 29 billion dollars, dwarfing his historic positions in Coca-Cola and Apple.
He built the stake in a company progressives have long targeted for elimination, and regulators have cleared him to own up to 50 percent of shares outstanding.
Analysts wonder if Buffett could eventually bid for the entire company. | | Watch the full breakdown of Buffett's biggest bet now |
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Biotech stocks are currently a strong sector of the stock market. An aging population with increasing healthcare demands, combined with rapidly growing and improving technology, will likely continue to support the growth of biotech stocks. The biotech industry is highly competitive and incredibly ... Read the Full Story |
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The stock market is an exciting place that provides us with unlimited opportunities to grow our wealth and invest in businesses that we truly believe in. That being said, there are plenty of pitfalls around every corner for first-time investors to look out for. As a new investor, it’s import... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The petrodollar arrangement that anchored the US dollar for 50 years quietly expired in June 2024. Since then, China has cut its Treasury holdings by 45% from their peak, and BRICS nations offloaded $47 billion of American debt in a single month.
The Trump administration has responded with a $12 billion critical minerals stockpile called Project Vault, equity stakes in miners like MP Materials and Lithium Americas, and a push to secure resources from Greenland to Ukraine.
Porter Stansberry lays out the full story in a new documentary, including five companies positioned at the chokepoints of what he calls Trump's New Dollar. | | Watch the full documentary before December's economic summit in Miami |
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Markets | | Home Depot reported revenue and EPS growth this morning and yet shares are down more than -5.0%. The home improvement company beat consensus for EPS but missed revenue estimates by a small margin. Even so, it was not the top and bottom lines that have the stock on the move. Home Depot reported weak ... Read the Full Story |
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Back in the early dot-com boom, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman at the time, coined the phrase “irrational exuberance”. This describes the kind of mania that can overtake investors when they continue to bid up stock and lose sight of the stock’s real value.
Th... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | The Home Builders have been on a tear in 2019. The SP Homebuilders ETF (XHB) rising more than 50% from the December 2018 low to lead the broader market higher. The strength is driven by expanding activity within the construction industry and there is no end in sight.
U.S. housing data came in bette... Read the Full Story |
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Over the multiple decades that newspaper comic “Fox Trot” ran, it covered a staggering array of story arcs. One of the best was when family patriarch Roger Fox decided he was going into day trading online. His 10-year-old son Jason set him up, telling him he could now trade stocks on m... Read the Full Story |
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I love amusement parks. I hope I never outgrow the thrill of a rollercoaster and the ability to turn back the clock if only for a few hours or days. But investing in roller coaster stocks such as Six Flags (NYSE:SIX) is not child’s play.
With the exception of Disney (NYSE:DIS) which is a ye... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Merit Medical Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets single-use medical products for interventional, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Cardiovascular and Endoscopy. The company provides micropuncture kits, angiographic needles, sheaths, guide wires, and safety products; peripheral intervention, including angiography, drainage, delivery systems, and embolotherapy products; spine products, such as vertebral augmentation, radiofrequency ablation, and bone biopsy systems; oncology products; and cardiac intervention products, such as access, angiography, electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm management, fluid management, hemodynamic monitoring, hemostasis, and intervention to treat various heart conditions. It also offers custom procedural solutions that include critical care products, disinfection protection systems, syringes, manifold kits, and trays and packs; coating services for medical tubes and wires; and sensor components for microelectromechanical systems. In addition, the company provides pulmonary products that consist of laser-cut tracheobronchial stents, over-the-wire and direct visualization delivery systems, and dilation balloons to endoscopically dilate structures; gastroenterology products, such as covered esophageal stents, syringe and gauges, and balloon dilators; and kits and accessories for endoscopy and bronchoscopy procedures. It sells its products to hospitals and alternate site-based physicians, technicians, and nurses through direct sales force, distributors, original equipment manufacturer partners, or custom procedure tray manufacturers. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in South Jordan, Utah. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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