Good MorningThe stock market ended 2020 on a high note despite a year of unprecedented volatility. The COVID-19 pandemic came out of nowhere and sparked the worst global recession in history. The S&P 500, arguably the world’s most closely watched stock index, gained more than 16% in that time. Investors with the savvy to buy in at the bottom saw gains in excess of 65%.
There is a lesson for investors in the 2020 price charts and the lesson is this; It is far better to stick to a plan and ignore the day-to-day market reactions than buying or selling on every news bite. Yes, the pandemic was scary and had a great impact on the economy but it didn’t alter the underlying trend. The U.S. economy was in the early stages of a major economic expansion before the pandemic hit. It may take a little time to gain momentum but, now that the pandemic is passing, that expansion is ready to resume.
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The mid-cap space is often a great place to find up and coming companies. They aren't as stodgy as their large cap counterparts but tend to be financially stronger than small-cap stocks. Sort of the Goldilocks of U.S. equity investments—not too small and not too big.
This makes mid-caps a g... Read the Full Story |
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Four hundred and eighty. That’s the number of new IPOs to hit the U.S. stock market this year, which represents a 105% increase from the number of companies that went public in 2019. This past year has been a momentous one for the IPO market as investors looked to add shares of up and coming... Read the Full Story |
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Construction | | The homebuilding sector, you may have heard, has been one of the biggest winners of the pandemic. The Fed is expected to keep its benchmark short-term interest rate near zero until at least 2023, which means that sub-3% mortgage rates are likely here to stay for a long time. Home prices are at recor... Read the Full Story |
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From Our Partners | | Trump is launching a new $250 bill - but that may be a distraction. Behind the scenes, Executive Order 14241 is orchestrating what analyst Porter Stansberry calls a total U.S. money reset, bypassing conventional legal channels under the guise of national security.
The last time America reset its currency - under Nixon in the 1970s - it created an average of 1,300 new millionaires a day for over 50 years. Stansberry has identified three asset categories connected to Trump's initiative that could surge, plus his single top investment move. | | Watch the documentary briefing and find out which side you land on |
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We've heard a lot about Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) in the last few weeks, and very little of it is what you'd call good news. Intel has been rapidly losing ground to rival chipmakers for some time now, and the near-term future doesn't exactly look great for Intel either. However, there are two chipmakers... Read the Full Story |
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As the likes of Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) have found themselves under increasing pressure from Chinese antitrust regulators, other Chinese tech giants like Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) have been enjoying their moment in the sun in recent weeks. Only earlier this month we wrote about how Baidu was shaping up fo... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | A Golden Cross In The Energy Sector
The energy sector has been under a lot of pressure in the last few years. What started with a virtually-unfixable oversupply problem soon accelerated into a price catastrophe due to COVID-19. The combined effects of rampant oversupply and rapidly deteriorating de... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Star Peak Energy Transition Corp (NYSE: STPK) will reverse merge with Stem. Inc., an AI-driven smart energy storage optimization platform, in Q1 2021. The stock has some powerful themes embedded into the narrative including SPAC, artificial intelligence (AI... Read the Full Story |
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As investors start to look ahead at the companies that could be in for a big 2021, it’s easy to get caught up in trying to find the next big thing. While there’s certainly something to be said about investing in up-and-coming businesses that could turn into massive winners, it’s ... Read the Full Story |
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Lockheed Martin Is A Compelling Investment
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) is one of those companies quietly going about business while the market is focused on higher-profile and more pandemically-centric names. While Lockheed Martin’s defense and aerospace-centric business is neither fueled no... Read the Full Story |
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As the holidays wind down, consumers often hit the stores and Internet to hunt for good bargains. Similarly, despite the stock market's climb to record highs, there are still some compelling buys out there.
Let's take a look at a few of the more intriguing sub-$20 stocks that have the growth driv... Read the Full Story |
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The Early Bird Stock Of The Day BCE Inc., a communications company, provides wireless, wireline, Internet, and television (TV) services to residential, business, and wholesale customers in Canada. The company operates through two segments, Bell Communication and Technology Services, and Bell Media. The Bell Communication and Technology Services segment provides wireless products and services including mobile data and voice plans and devices; wireline products and services comprising data, including internet access, internet protocol television, cloud-based services, and business solutions, as well as voice, and other communication services and products; and satellite TV and connectivity services for residential, small and medium-sized business, government, and large enterprise customers. This segment also buys and sells local telephone, long distance, and data and other services from or to resellers and other carriers; and operates consumer electronics retail stores. The Bell Media segment provides conventional TV, specialty TV, pay TV, streaming services, digital media services, radio broadcasting services, and out-of-home advertising services. BCE Inc. was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Verdun, Canada. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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