The stock market may have hit a bump during the first half of November, but most prudent long-term investors should know that the major U.S. equity indexes are still very close to […]
Investors know all about AI suppliers by now, and NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the leader by a wide margin. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD) is also now getting much more […]
Goldman Sachs has doubled-down for gold bugs. The price of gold has risen more than 40% dollar terms in 2025, and this will likely mark the third consecutive year of double-digits gains […]
It’s official. The U.S. federal government shutdown has arrived. This is likely to bring an economic impact outside of the initial jobs lost and furloughed. Still, the financial markets are quite resilient […]
The United States is one of the few nations that has energy independence and commodity independence from the rest of the world. There are of course some gaps, and even in the […]
Moody’s brought a lot of serious points up when it downgraded the credit ratings of the United States. Now the U.S. has no ‘AAA’ credit ratings from any of the three major […]
We now all know that the United States lost its final ‘AAA’ rating after Moody’s downgraded the sovereign rating to ‘Aa1.’ The move has been “on the verge” with warnings for […]
The financial markets were not counting on a U.S.-China trade deal being reached over the weekend. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has already said that this trade agreement, which the details are still […]
The U.S. economy has entered into negative territory on GDP for the first quarter of 2025. That’s not good, and it worse than what was expected. It would be naive to ignore […]
If there is one U.S. technology titan dependent upon China and other nations targeted with tariffs in Asia, look no further than Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Apple’s shares have been crushed during […]
Bitcoin is sometimes hard to describe outside of simply being a digital asset and alternative asset at the same time. And explaining its wild price gyrations, particularly on weekends and in the […]
The day of tariffs has finally arrived. Stocks around the world reacted quite negatively, not in celebration of Liberation Day, as the reciprocal tariffs were deemed to be the worst case scenario […]
The day of tariffs has finally arrived. It’s touted as Liberation Day, but the reaction from stocks around the globe doesn’t feel all that liberating. The world’s stock markets reacted quite negatively […]
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury are currently in a major bind over interest rates. The Treasury is now spending over $1.1 billion per year in interest alone as debt […]
Is the Chinese AI DeepSeek going to topple AI as we know it in the United Stated and the Western hemisphere? The answer remains to be seen but the destruction of value […]
Tactical Bulls is featuring international markets which may potentially outperform the United States in 2025. Major stock market strategists are calling for another 8% to 10% gains for the S&P 500 in […]
Gold has been quite volatile in 2024. The reality is that a lot of the bullish stance for gold was interrupted over the last 45 to 60 days. U.S. growth and interest […]
The 2024 election is now finally over. Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States and it appears that the Republican party will have control of both houses in […]
As investors awake on Wednesday morning, the financial markets were surging as Donald Trump has been projected by all major media outlets to win the 2024 Presidential election in a monumental victory […]
The U.S. Federal Reserve has finally begun its interest rate cutting cycle. The 50 basis-point cut to the Fed Funds rate does of course help businesses and borrowers alike. That cut was […]