Research & News
By Gavin Magor On January 16, 201808:00 AM Eastern
After years of scraping along at virtually zero, U.S. interest rates are starting to shoot higher!
One factor is the Federal Reserve. It raised rates in mid-December and signaled to expect three...
By Mike Larson On January 12, 201803:15 PM Eastern
We’re barely two weeks into 2018, and the stock market is already off and running – racking up its best start to any year since 2003! Meanwhile, interest rates are finally awakening from their...
By Sean Brodrick On January 12, 201812:55 PM Eastern
I told you that when I got the buy signals, we’d back up the truck. Today is that day.
Specifically, I’m getting buy signals in nat-gas and precious metals. And that means I have three new picks...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On January 12, 201808:00 AM Eastern
The S&P 500 returned an amazing 21.8% last year. It’s easy to look at that, the seventh year of double-digit gains in the past nine, and scoff – or worry about what 2018 might have in store.
But...
By Mike Larson On January 12, 201808:00 AM Eastern
I’m a big movie fan, so I can recall many famous scenes at a moment’s notice. But one that’s at the top of my all-time favorite list comes from “Braveheart.”
The 1995 film stars Mel Gibson, and...
By Gavin Magor On January 11, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Over the span of the last few weeks, I shared all the ins-and-outs of variable annuities and the alternatives to them (including fixed annuities). You can read parts one, two, three, and four of...
By Mandeep Rai On January 10, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Heading into the 2017 holiday shopping season, you couldn’t give retail stocks away. Investors were worried about weak same-store sales, underinvestment in e-commerce operations, and the loss of...
By Sean Brodrick On January 9, 201812:21 PM Eastern
Your portfolio is off to a roaring start in 2018. Aurora Cannabis just became the latest position to join the Triple-Digit Percentage Gains Club.
There will be a lot more where that came from...
By Gavin Magor On January 9, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Investing in bank stocks should be a straightforward decision. If you know the cost of money and you know how a given bank operates, the result is “automatic” profits (in theory). The first data...
By Mike Larson On January 8, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Last week wasn’t just a holiday week at the Larson household. It marked a family milestone: We dropped my stepson off at college for the first time. Naturally, we’re apprehensive about some of...