With the tenth anniversary of this bull market upon us, investors have a lot to celebrate. Stocks are up, profits are growing, the economy is chugging along, the interest rate environment is relatively benign, and even on the trade-war front we are seeing some positive expectations lately. There’s nothing more bullish than a bull market. If this saying is even half-correct, the best indication we investors have that the market strength will continue is the powerful market rebound off the latest lows in December 2018. The chart below, which extends from Dec 24, 2018, to March 5, 2019, shows the… Read More

With the tenth anniversary of this bull market upon us, investors have a lot to celebrate. Stocks are up, profits are growing, the economy is chugging along, the interest rate environment is relatively benign, and even on the trade-war front we are seeing some positive expectations lately. There’s nothing more bullish than a bull market. If this saying is even half-correct, the best indication we investors have that the market strength will continue is the powerful market rebound off the latest lows in December 2018. The chart below, which extends from Dec 24, 2018, to March 5, 2019, shows the power of that rebound rally. From the market’s low on Christmas Eve, all the major U.S. indices rallied quite strongly. Here’s the grand total… #-ad_banner-#Not counting dividends, the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 18.4%, falling slightly behind the S&P 500’s 18.7% return. Not to be outdone, the Russell 2000 index of small-cap stocks has been leading the rebound with its 23.8% return as of March 5. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 has also done very well, with a 21.3% return over these two and a half months. I’m happy to report that our portfolio over at Game-Changing Stocks has done quite… Read More

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Unless, of course, an external force is applied. Add “stock market advisor” to Isaac Newton’s resume, right along with astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Similar to physics, Newton’s first law of motion also works in investments. Kind of. While there is no physical force that moves them, stocks, much like physical objects, tend to continue moving in the same direction until something around them (or about them) changes. No one — including Newton — can or could with a high degree of certainty predict this afternoon’s breaking news or tomorrow’s big earnings… Read More

A body in motion tends to stay in motion. Unless, of course, an external force is applied. Add “stock market advisor” to Isaac Newton’s resume, right along with astronomer, physicist and mathematician. Similar to physics, Newton’s first law of motion also works in investments. Kind of. While there is no physical force that moves them, stocks, much like physical objects, tend to continue moving in the same direction until something around them (or about them) changes. No one — including Newton — can or could with a high degree of certainty predict this afternoon’s breaking news or tomorrow’s big earnings upset. What investors can do, however, is follow the trend. That’s why I recently set out with a goal to investigate stocks that are moving higher. To do this, I screened all U.S.-listed small-cap stocks (those with market capitalizations less than $2 billion but larger than $500 million) that have closed within 5% of their 52-week high. To make this screen more relevant to the goals of my Game-Changing Stocks premium newsletter, I also wanted to screen for future — expected — growth. Because this metric is based on analysts’ assessments, I also looked for stocks that were covered by… Read More

It’s good to have the best seat in the house… In all of my years at StreetAuthority, I’ve been fortunate enough to watch some of the brightest financial minds at work in this business. And every so often I like to take the spotlight and shine it exclusively on one of our premium newsletter analysts. —Recommended Link— MiracleBlood postpones old age by 50 years The full details are in our new podcast, but believe me when I say that this is huge. Click here to listen for free. I’ve done this a number of times. Often it’s in the… Read More

It’s good to have the best seat in the house… In all of my years at StreetAuthority, I’ve been fortunate enough to watch some of the brightest financial minds at work in this business. And every so often I like to take the spotlight and shine it exclusively on one of our premium newsletter analysts. —Recommended Link— MiracleBlood postpones old age by 50 years The full details are in our new podcast, but believe me when I say that this is huge. Click here to listen for free. I’ve done this a number of times. Often it’s in the form of one-on-one interviews. On other rare occasions, I’ll hand the reins of these pages over to the analyst so that they can speak directly, personally, to you. When it comes to an in-depth look at a winning strategy or important issue that could fundamentally change the way you think about investing, I’ve found that there’s simply no better way to get the message across than to sit down with one of our experts and have a detailed discussion. And judging from the feedback I’ve received over the years from you, our StreetAuthority Daily readers, a lot of you agree. Read More

Investing is a hard business. You can’t take anything for granted, and there is no easy and fast formula to predict how well a stock will do. It’s hard to determine whether a company — even a leader in a steady-as-it-goes business — will continue to deliver profits or appreciate versus the competition.  Case in point: Kraft Heinz (Nasdaq: KHC). This consumer-staple company has turned out to be anything but safe and steady. You’ve likely heard by now that shares of the world’s fifth-largest food-and-drinks company lost 27% in a single session on Friday, February 22. And Kraft halved its… Read More

Investing is a hard business. You can’t take anything for granted, and there is no easy and fast formula to predict how well a stock will do. It’s hard to determine whether a company — even a leader in a steady-as-it-goes business — will continue to deliver profits or appreciate versus the competition.  Case in point: Kraft Heinz (Nasdaq: KHC). This consumer-staple company has turned out to be anything but safe and steady. You’ve likely heard by now that shares of the world’s fifth-largest food-and-drinks company lost 27% in a single session on Friday, February 22. And Kraft halved its dividend, too. A whopping $15.4 billion write-down of its acquisitions of Kraft and Oscar Mayer was just part of the bad news; the company also disclosed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation of its procurement accounting practices. Talk about risky…  Before that one-day nosedive, KHC had already lost about half of its value. And now, even Warren Buffett, arguably the best investor in the business, laments that he overpaid for Kraft (Berkshire Hathaway owns 26.7% of the company and lost more than $4.3 billion on that fateful Friday). (This article from CNBC gives a… Read More

One of the goals I have in mind when screening for stocks is to find fresh investment ideas — ideas that have not been preconceived or predetermined by an analyst’s current thinking and market outlook. These screens also generate new and sometimes unexpected ideas for my Fast-Track Millionaire readers to consider.  Recently, I showed my subscribers the results of a screen I ran for financially healthy mid-cap companies (market capitalization between $2 billion and $10 billion) that have been outgrowing the rest of the pack. And today, I’m going to share it with you… —Recommended Link— What would YOU do… Read More

One of the goals I have in mind when screening for stocks is to find fresh investment ideas — ideas that have not been preconceived or predetermined by an analyst’s current thinking and market outlook. These screens also generate new and sometimes unexpected ideas for my Fast-Track Millionaire readers to consider.  Recently, I showed my subscribers the results of a screen I ran for financially healthy mid-cap companies (market capitalization between $2 billion and $10 billion) that have been outgrowing the rest of the pack. And today, I’m going to share it with you… —Recommended Link— What would YOU do with an extra $3,080 every month for the rest of your life? Never worry about cash again. Be free to live how YOU want… go on a lavish vacation… or build up a college fund for the grandkids–it’s up to you. Get your share here…. The Criteria Screening for growth might seem easy, but there are many ways to go about it. For this screen, I’ve chosen a relatively straightforward way to measure growth, a method that would also allow us to include younger companies that could have been unprofitable over the past few years. Only companies with… Read More

It’s hard to underestimate the importance of understanding business and financial trends for successful investing. After all, it’s hard to be an effective investor if all you watch are the stocks in your portfolio. This is why analysts, market watchers and researchers always try to understand industry trends and follow a great number of stocks comprising sectors of interest. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been telling readers about one trend that’s definitely worth watching — namely, the developments in the burgeoning field of “personalized medicine.” Why is it so important? Here’s what I said in that article: “…we find… Read More

It’s hard to underestimate the importance of understanding business and financial trends for successful investing. After all, it’s hard to be an effective investor if all you watch are the stocks in your portfolio. This is why analysts, market watchers and researchers always try to understand industry trends and follow a great number of stocks comprising sectors of interest. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been telling readers about one trend that’s definitely worth watching — namely, the developments in the burgeoning field of “personalized medicine.” Why is it so important? Here’s what I said in that article: “…we find ourselves on the cusp of another generational shift in medicine — one that could not only lead to longer, healthier lives for a lot of us… but one that stands to make a fortune for investors with the foresight to get in on the early stages.” Make no mistake, if there is one area you want to pay attention to over the coming months and years, this is it… —Recommended Link— Hit This “Sweet Spot” For 9.9% Average Yields While you might be tempted to buy only the highest-yielding dividend stocks… please DON’T. Because research proves that one special… Read More

Shares of cyber-security company Mimecast (Nasdaq: MIME) shot up about 20% on February 12, establishing a new all-time high in the process. The catalyst: a third-quarter earnings report that showed the company continues to excel on all fronts. If you purchased MIME when I recommended it in my Game-Changing Stocks service a little over a year ago, you’re sitting on an 80% gain right now. Before I touch on what’s sparked the recent rally, I want to highlight what exactly Mimecast does, for those who aren’t premium subscribers.  Leveraging The Cloud Mimecast, which went public in November 2015, is… Read More

Shares of cyber-security company Mimecast (Nasdaq: MIME) shot up about 20% on February 12, establishing a new all-time high in the process. The catalyst: a third-quarter earnings report that showed the company continues to excel on all fronts. If you purchased MIME when I recommended it in my Game-Changing Stocks service a little over a year ago, you’re sitting on an 80% gain right now. Before I touch on what’s sparked the recent rally, I want to highlight what exactly Mimecast does, for those who aren’t premium subscribers.  Leveraging The Cloud Mimecast, which went public in November 2015, is a bright young company in the business of enabling, securing and protecting cloud-based email for a variety of companies.  #-ad_banner-#As you probably know, moving to the cloud is one of the most important business trends of the past decade. Organizations that use the cloud benefit from the flexibility of the services, the usage-based subscription model, the lowered capital expenses and the improved accessibility for remote or dispersed employees. But dangers abound… Data breaches. Compromised credentials. Hacked accounts. Data loss from an attack. These are just a few examples of things that can go wrong.  Some of these threats stem from… Read More

Should I stay or should I go? If you’ve been singing this 1981 tune by the English punk rock band The Clash to yourself since late September, you are not alone.  In the fourth-quarter selloff last year, U.S. equities lost $4 trillion in combined market value. For those who had chosen to stay and not to go, a sharp market bounce has helped recover much of the losses: after the 17% rally off the December low, the S&P 500 has now returned to early January 2018 levels. For the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100, the decline was deeper, but the bounce was… Read More

Should I stay or should I go? If you’ve been singing this 1981 tune by the English punk rock band The Clash to yourself since late September, you are not alone.  In the fourth-quarter selloff last year, U.S. equities lost $4 trillion in combined market value. For those who had chosen to stay and not to go, a sharp market bounce has helped recover much of the losses: after the 17% rally off the December low, the S&P 500 has now returned to early January 2018 levels. For the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100, the decline was deeper, but the bounce was sharper. At its lowest levels of 2018, the Nasdaq was down 23% from its highs. Since its December lows, though, it has rallied some 19%.  As a result, the Nasdaq is now higher by about 10% from its 2017 levels. —Recommended Link— How I hacked the stock market and got away with thousands. Make $30,000 in 2 months exploiting mispriced stocks like Apple, Starbucks and other quality blue chips. Click here for the easy (and legal) secret… Hardly a record, but still better than money-market returns. It Pays To Hold Fast But stocks are risky, you might… Read More

After a dismal fourth quarter, disheartened investors needed a snap-back rally… and they got it in spades: The S&P 500 rallied 15% from the market’s lows on December 24 through the end of January.  That’s 15% in six weeks. I think it would be fair to say that this is a far better result that many investors had expected. While the rally still wasn’t enough to recover all of 2018’s losses — the S&P 500 now trades just about 2% above its levels of the start of 2018 — this is truly a great showing. January’s rally alone was one… Read More

After a dismal fourth quarter, disheartened investors needed a snap-back rally… and they got it in spades: The S&P 500 rallied 15% from the market’s lows on December 24 through the end of January.  That’s 15% in six weeks. I think it would be fair to say that this is a far better result that many investors had expected. While the rally still wasn’t enough to recover all of 2018’s losses — the S&P 500 now trades just about 2% above its levels of the start of 2018 — this is truly a great showing. January’s rally alone was one for the record books. It was the index’s best single-month performance since October 2015 and the best start of the year since January 1987. But was the snap-back enough to restore investors’ trust in the market? —Recommended Link— URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is “A Disaster Waiting to Happen” Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special “Executive Dividends” Program… Learn more inside.. It should be. In fact, a rational investor shouldn’t have lost faith in the market to begin with. Especially if he or she has a strong-enough plan (like… Read More

Since 1951, the American Cancer Society has been releasing a detailed report on the status of this dreaded disease, and our progress in fighting it.  A valuable feature of these publications is their projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in the country as a whole and in each state, broken down by specific types of cancer. Most recently, for instance, we learned that the recent trend of the decline in mortality rates — a decline that began in 1991 — has continued. As of 2015, the latest year for which figures are available, the mortality rate… Read More

Since 1951, the American Cancer Society has been releasing a detailed report on the status of this dreaded disease, and our progress in fighting it.  A valuable feature of these publications is their projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in the country as a whole and in each state, broken down by specific types of cancer. Most recently, for instance, we learned that the recent trend of the decline in mortality rates — a decline that began in 1991 — has continued. As of 2015, the latest year for which figures are available, the mortality rate dropped to 159 per 100,000 (a decline of 26% since 1991); this translates into 2.3 million-plus fewer cancer deaths over this period. The death rate has declined especially sharply for the four most common cancer types: lung, colorectal, breast, and prostate. This is wonderful news, and there are two big reasons for this progress.  #-ad_banner-#One is related to public-health efforts, in particular the reduction in smoking. In 1991, about 46.3 million adults in the United States (25.7%) smoked cigarettes; by 2016, this number declined to 15.5% of all adults (37.8 million people).  The other has everything to do with science… Read More