Markets | | Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) shares have been a livewire that continues to react in a bipolar manner. Standalone brick and mortar retailers have had mixed sentiment often reacting as a hedge in down market moves. Stocks like Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) , Target (NYSE: TGT)... Read the Full Story |
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It’s safe to say that the travel industry is experiencing an extraordinary drop in consumer demand. The coronavirus pandemic has led to a complete global economic shutdown. People are simply not traveling and the shares of companies in the travel industry have experienced the worst of the ma... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | We’re Not Out Of The Woods But The Market Is Bottoming
The pandemic-inspired sell-off was scary and there are reasons to fear it isn’t over. The coronavirus pandemic is still with us, it is unclear how long it will last, and we don’t know what kind of long-term damage has been don... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | The biggest IPO in history is likely just weeks away…
Anthropic, the company behind Claude AI, is rumoured to be lining up a Nasdaq debut before Thanksgiving… at a valuation of up to $2 trillion. But here’s what nobody’s talking about…
A raise of about $100 billion doesn’t just make headlines. It puts an enormous spotlight on the AI industry. And as investors rush to find the next big opportunity in artificial intelligence, some of the most interesting plays may be hiding outside traditional AI stocks. | | Click here to see my #1 pick for the Claude IPO. |
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Markets | | Digital payment solutions provider PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) has been an innovator and disruptor in the payment processing industry. Innovations range from acquiring leading peer-to-peer payment app Venmo, browser extension coupon app Honey to launching PayPal Working Capital utilizing ... Read the Full Story |
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One of the biggest components of successful trading is the ability to understand current market conditions. Many new traders learn the hard way that trying to force trades in a market without direction can be a quick way to lose money. Sometimes, the most prudent thing to do as a trader is to do n... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | After the Dot-Com Bubble burst in March 2000, the Nasdaq fell 78% over the following decade. But gold staged a historic bull run, and select miners delivered gains of 50X, 53X, 252X, and even 362X.
Garrett Goggin, CFA, CMT and founder of The Golden Portfolio, has spent over 20 years studying these market rotations, including 15 years working alongside gold analyst John Doody. He's identified four gold miners positioned for the next rotation out of AI stocks. | | See Garrett Goggin's four gold miner picks before the next rotation begins |
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Markets | | Payment solutions provider Square (NYSE: SQ) shares took a heavy bearing during the coronavirus pandemic sinking to lows of $32.33 on March 18, 2020. This move was positively correlated to the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) which collapsed over 35 percent in just under a month. Prior to this black swan... Read the Full Story |
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Have we turned a corner? This inherently hopeful and largely rhetorical question has underscored a lot of the world's life these days. Has the coronavirus pandemic started retreating to the point where life looks like it once did and we can actually go back to work? Has the stock market stopped it... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | As markets continue to rebound from one of the most vicious sell-offs in history, many investors are looking for quality stocks that are trading at significant discounts to where they were a month or two ago. While overall volatility is still elevated, there’s no doubt that attractive buying o... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | A Preemptive Strike
When the market saw the black swan of coronavirus approaching it reacted in the only way it could. Instead of waiting for this thing to hit, waiting to see how bad it might be, the market started selling. The general thought went something like this “it’s better to b... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | The equity markets have seen unprecedented volatility in 2020 triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic black swan event. The S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA: SPY) has broken all kinds of records including the fastest drop into a bear market in history collapsing in excess of (-30 percent) from highs in just thr... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day Main Street Capital Corporation is a business development company specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm specializing in recapitalizations, management buyouts, refinancing, family estate planning, management buyouts, refinancing, industry consolidation, mature, later stage emerging growth. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations, and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides "one stop" financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. It prefers to invest in air freight and logistics, auto components, building products, chemicals, commercial services, computers, construction and engineering, consumer finance, consumer services, electronic equipment, energy equipment and services, financial services, health care equipment, health care providers, hotels, restaurants, and leisure, internet software and services, IT Services, machinery, oil, gas and consumable fuels, paper and forest products, professional and industrial services, road and rail, software, specialty retail, telecommunication, consumer discretionary, energy, materials, technology, and transportation. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. It prefers to invest in ranging between $5 million and $100 million in equity investment and enterprise value in ranging between $3 million and $20 million. The firm typically prefers to invest in the range of $5 million and $150 million per transaction in debt investment value and in the range of $3 million and $75 million in annual EBITDA in between $3 million and $25 million in lower middle market $5 million and $75 million in credit solution. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It takes 5 percent minority and up to 50 percent majority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in Chojnów, Poland. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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