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The Dow Hits 25K to Start the New Year. Now What?
The 10-year Treasury yield should be the cornerstone of your investment research process. This "magic metric" tells you whether stocks are going up or down with just one glance. …
The Leading Man for Your Financial Well-Being
As we close out 2017 and look forward to a new year, in this article, I am going to tell you who the most important person is for your financial well-being and the performance of your portfolio in 2018. …
Forget the New Tax Bill
President Trump was finally able to flex his party’s majority muscle, overcoming internal dissent to accomplish some long-sought political goals. Bill Hall gives his take on the so-called Tax Reform. …
The Big Paradox That Is Sending Stocks Soaring
This is indeed a rare time in stock market history. That’s because U.S. stocks, as measured by the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Average, haven’t just been hanging out near all-time highs. They’ve been printing new highs almost daily. …
Are Your Stocks Doing Well? You Can Thank a Central Banker for That
All the U.S. stock market major indices — the Dow 30, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq — continue to soar higher. But do you know what’s causing stocks break record high after record high? Bill Hall has the answer. …
Stocks Going Up, Up and Away!
Bill Hall believes stocks can only go higher because his "magic metric" sits in the "sweet spot." But, you must still invest in high-quality growth stocks. …
Central Bankers Turn to Uncle Pennybags for Guidance
Due to the Monopoly-money-like schemes of central bankers around the globe, a certain select group of stocks — such as those in the Safe Money Portfolio — will soar higher ... probably much higher. …
Take an Investing Lesson from Egg Farmers
In a low-interest world, there’s a low-risk way to get a real return on your investments – and it’s been sitting in plain sight the whole time. …
Beating the Bots and Robos
The markets are dominated by automated trading software called "bots" and "robos." But you don't have to be a computer to spot a good market as long as you understand the 10-Year Treasury yield. …
How to Compete in an Increasingly Robotic Market
AI bots may make human stock traders obsolete. But right now, we still have an edge we can exploit to stay in the game. …
China’s $2 Trillion Black Hole of Bad Debt
Chinese economic data may be the mystery meat of the markets. But it will be hard to keep hiding its $2 trillion in bad loans. …
Europe’s Toxic Debt Hits ‘Urgent, Actionable’ Levels
It's the 30-year anniversary of Black Monday. But this week, the markets are more in-the-black than ever. It's inspiring people who've never bought a stock in their lives to pay attention to the markets. But there is an even bigger opportunity on the horizon that most are not paying attention to. …
This New ECB Scheme Is Like 2011 All Over Again
When it comes to asset classes, European bonds top the list as the most dangerous to the global economy, says a survey of fund managers. Here’s what that means to your wealth. …
Target Extraordinary Returns in This Far-from-Ordinary Market
Investors must be vigilant in these times of experimental monetary policy and heightened geopolitical tensions. Here’s what to do before the whole system falls apart… …
It’s Still a Great Time for Growth
Even with so much fear on the horizon, it's still a great time to own high-quality growth stocks. And it could be about to get even better. …
Has Apple Finally Priced Itself Out of the Market?
In an unprecedented marketing blitz, Apple has launched three new iPhones at once, including the $1,000 iPhone X. Has the iconic brand bitten off more than it can chew? …
Apple Primed to Profit From New iPhones
Wall Street analysts focused on the wrong things when they ran down Apple after it unveiled three new iPhones. Bill Hall sets the record straight. …
Korean ICBMs Prompt Bargain Buys
The Koreans keep testing ICBMs. Now they’ve figured out how to make a hydrogen bomb that fits onto an ICBM. Bill Hall sees investment opportunities. …
It’s a Great Time to Invest for Growth!
On average, the S&P 500 Index does really well in the last three months of the year. So, ignore the bad news and the naysayers and buy solid, growth stocks. …
A Fierce Battle for Retail’s Future
As the rest of the retail sector sinks, Amazon and Wal-Mart are engaged in a fierce battle. I’ve been watching both very closely. Here’s my view ... …
My Bold End-of-Year Prediction
The end of summer marks a perfect time for everyday investors to reassess their investments and ready their portfolios for the post-Labor Day race to end-of-year profit opportunities. Here’s how. …
NFL May Draft Big Green to Treat Pain
The NFL may be softening its tough stance on pot. The Players Association agreed to be part of a study about using marijuana as a pain-management drug. …
Surprising Supporters Want to Cash in on Big Green
Legal pot has friends in high places … like the governors’ mansions of many cash-strapped states. …
Big Green Stocks Give Small Investors a Huge Edge
For now, small investors have the advantage with pot stocks. But don’t delay, the marijuana economy keeps evolving. …
Why We’re Pursuing Profits in The Big Green
It's time to pursue profits in legal-marijuana stocks. Investing in Big Green could be the break you need to build a million-dollar fortune. …
Marijuana Industry Shaking Off Old Stereotypes
Big Tobacco is ready, willing and able to make hay from legal marijuana. …
This Little-Known Fact Creates Big Opportunity for Pot Investors
Big Tobacco is ready, willing and able to make hay from legal marijuana. …
Here Comes Big Marijuana!
Big Tobacco is ready, willing and able to make hay from legal marijuana. …
Guess Who’s Betting Big on Marijuana Mania?
Big Pharma and Big Alcohol stand to lose billions as people increasingly prefer pot over Oxy and beer. But marijuana mania could breathe life into Big Tobacco in a big way. …
Legal Pot Is Making This Industry Paranoid about Lost Profits
The alcohol industry could lose the most if marijuana is legalized at the federal level. Cowen research shows fewer pot-smokers are drinking, where more drinkers are likely to light up. …
This Sector Is Set to Cause a World of Pain for Big Pharma
This growing sector could cost marketers of modern medicine somewhere around $4 billion per year. Here’s what to look for. …
Marijuana Is Going Mainstream
New rules on marijuana in California and other states are starting to rouse the curiosity of investors of all stripes. Here’s what to look for before you start investing. …
Get Ready to Step Out of Your Investing Comfort Zone
One sector is bursting onto the scene right now. Be sure to get in on the action before it absolutely explodes! Here’s how… …
What Are the Odds of a Trump Impeachment?
Our controversial president is at it again — we all know it. It’s all over the news. My job — as a professional investor — is to push my personal biases aside and analyze the impact of this new political information. What I’ve discovered is astonishing. …
Astonishing Facts About Berkshire Hathaway’s Cash Stash
At Berkshire Hathaway’s widely-followed annual meeting, super-investor Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s chairman and CEO, revealed a stunning fact that no one in the mainstream media is telling you about. …
A Powerful Model for Projecting Stock Returns
This model can clear away the complexity surrounding the stock market and consequently lead to great financial reward. …
Markets Send Mixed Signals
The stock and bond markets are sending two different messages. Here’s what I recommend you do … …
Introducing: My Cutting-Edge Asset-Allocation Model
Balancing your investments can be tricky in volatile markets. You need a dependable system. Bill Hall shares one he invented one for his super rich clients. …
What 10-Year Yield Ranges Really Reveal
Up, down, or sideways, there’s a range of the 10-year Treasury yield that will predict which way stocks will move. You need to know these ranges to invest wisely. …
Viewing Interest Rates Through the Looking Glass
With stock prices likely to follow interest rates lower, you should maintain a high cash reserve — to fund future buying opportunities when the market does indeed come back. …
How Low Can They Go?
Interest rates are going down, down, down. So investors need a double-edged strategy that will both protect their assets and grow their wealth. …
Keep It Simple To Rake in Gains
The Wall Street wolves deliberately cloak their schemes in complexity so they can separate you from your money more easily. Getting down to the essence of what’s going on can be hard. But if you can do it consistently, it can give you a distinct advantage over everyone else. …
FOMC expected to raise rates through 2018!
As the Fed indicates to raise rates through 2018 will the financial system be threatened. …
FOMC: Don’t Get Lost in All the Hoopla
The outcome of the next FOMC meeting will likely have less impact on your portfolio than you realize. To get a true picture of what’s going on, we need to step back and take a macro view of what the Fed is up against. …
Trump’s Secret Wall Street Plan
President Donald Trump has a secret, nine-step economic plan that benefits Wall Street. But how can Main Street investors profit from it? …
Here’s What’s Really Driving the Markets Up!
One simple statistic reveals why the stock markets are zooming like a rocket. Ignore the truth at your peril. …
The geopolitical risks investors need to be aware of in the upcoming calendar
Take note of these upcoming geopolitical events that could impact your portfolio -- or pay the price. …
An Important Lesson in These Highly Uncertain Times
The U.S. stock market has taken a pause from its blistering upward run that began immediately after the U.S. presidential election. Yet, the percentage of bulls is rising. Here’s why … …
What the markets are telling me now
One of the primary attributes of being a successful investor is learning to control your emotions and make a dispassionate assessment of the world around you. …
Taking a wait-and-see approach…
Kick-starting the U.S. economy will be a Herculean labor given our government debts and cash-poor consumers. How should you invest now? …
Inauguration Day: What to Expect Today and Going Forward
While the mainstream media are filled with controversy surrounding our new billionaire president, the big point I want to make to investors is this … …
Ignore Pundits’ Predictions – Interest Rates Will Forecast Markets’ Future
To win in today’s uncertain and high-priced markets, your portfolio must contain high-quality investments that emphasize liquidity. …
It’s the only game in town
Tread carefully when picking stocks because central bank policies have fueled a rally you can’t depend on. …
A Market Filled With Holiday Joy
The U.S. stock market as measured by the benchmark S&P 500, has gained approximately 5.5 percent, setting numerous records along its jolly move upward. But how much higher can it go? …
What the Fed Action Means for Growth
The U.K.’s Brexit referendum -- combined with the election of Donald Trump -- could spell double trouble as the global economy faces longer-term doubts over the likely pace of productivity growth. …
Trumponomics: What you need to know
Donald Trump’s victory — and the subsequent stock market rally — has many in the mainstream media comparing Trump’s economic policies to those rolled out in the early years of the Reagan Revolution. …
Euro Zone on Brink of Recession; ECB Backs up Mario’s Promise
As Wall Street begins its stretch run from Labor Day to the end of the year, the really big news came out of Europe last week. And that was the announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB) that they were going to lower interest rates to practically ZERO. That means almost nothing and they're going to buy back loads of asset-backed securities. The reason the European Central Bank had to do this is because the European economy is teetering on the verge of recession. The actions by the ECB were appropriate based on the underlying economic conditions in Europe. …
A Company That Performs in all Markets
Personally I am really excited to be on this podcast today and that is because traditionally the week after Labor Day marks the beginning of the run to the finish line for the year on Wall Street. That is because most senior traders on Wall Street tend to take the month of August off. They are on vacation so it is hard to draw any significant conclusions into August market actions. …
High Yields in Slow-Growth World
Hello, everyone. This is Bill Hall for Money and Markets. It is Wednesday, Aug. 27, and I am pleased to bring you my investment thoughts in this new, exciting podcast format. Today, I am going to give you some specific investments on how you can profit in a world where growth is hard to come by and stock valuations are full and lofty. …
A High-Yield Investment for You to Consider
There is no doubt about it: We have experienced one of the great bull runs in history — already 5¼-years old. On March 6, 2009, the S&P 500 was 676.53; on May …
The Secret to Investment Home Runs
Successful investors invest with a purpose, keep their positions focused, and avoid trades that don’t offer an attractive risk-versus-potential-reward scenario. That’s why you shouldn’t feel any pressure to invest based on every …
Emerging Market Profits? Not Too Late
Emerging economies, including China and India, are growing several times faster than the U.S., but have nevertheless been frustrating investors until recently. That’s because last year, when U.S. stocks went on a …
Market Doesn’t Believe Economy Is Getting Better
Hello, everyone. This is Bill Hall and I am pleased to bring you this Money and Markets market update. Recently all eyes have been on the U.S. labor market, and last week …
Invest in These Alternatives to Biotech
The alarm bells went off on Wall Street last week as Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen warned of a bubble in social media and biotech stocks. Indeed, in her public comments last …
IPO Uncertainty Makes Investing Risky – Seek Quality Instead
As Managing Editor Mark Najarian pointed out in a recent Money and Markets column, the IPO market is moving along at a blistering pace. In fact, Investor’s Business Daily recently reported that …
Big Job Gains and the Fed
The U.S. Labor Department said Thursday that U.S. employers added 288,000 workers in June, exceeding economist forecasts, causing the unemployment rate to fall to an almost six-year low of 6.1 percent. That’s …
Don’t be Seduced by IPO Madness! Stick With Quality
As Managing Editor Mark Najarian pointed out in last week’s Money and Markets column, the IPO market is moving along at a blistering pace. In fact, Investor’s Business Daily recently reported that …
Global-Minded, Acquisitive Oracle on Profitable Path
In these uniquely unusual markets where growth is hard to find, my preferred investment category continues to be high-quality, large global franchise companies that sell their goods and services all over the …
How to Invest as Boomers’ Peak Spending Years Fade
In recent Money and Markets columns, I have discussed how deflation is the primary economic force effecting both the real economy and the financial markets. And last week, we received further evidence …
ECB Action Alone Won’t Defeat Deflation
We are moving in the right direction, but we aren’t out of the woods yet. And as each day goes by, I become more concerned. Recent news, this time coming from the …
Don’t Ignore These Warning Signs
Successful investing involves focusing on the facts and stats that matter, and disregarding the information that is of no decision-making value. Unfortunately for investors, most of the information that the mainstream media …
Stocks’ sweet spot could turn sour without growth
In recent Money and Markets columns, I have been saying that we are in the sweet spot for U.S. stocks and investors should consider pursuing a “risk on regardless” strategy in their …
Can stocks go higher when growth is so weak?
Many market experts got a big surprise last week. The reason? While they have been forecasting since New Year’s that interest rates would go up, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury …
Yellen and Draghi Message Is Music to Wall Street’s Ears
In public statements, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her counterpart at the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, were both singing the same song last week about the lack of global economic …
The One DISTURBING, STUBBORN Trend in the U.S. Economy
What gives? The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new record high last Wednesday, the same day it was reported that first-quarter GDP grew at just a 0.1 percent annual pace, …
Has the Fed’s ‘Wealth Effect’ made YOU any richer?
Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said: “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was your age, I always did it …
Without THIS Ingredient, Your Stocks Will Bleed
Did you know that there are only two ways that stock prices can move up from their current levels? That’s right — despite what the mainstream media wants you to believe — …
After Five Years of Turbo-Charged Stocks, Where to Now?
Three-and-a-half months into 2014, stocks — as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average — are down about 1 percent for the year, leaving investors disappointed, especially after 2013’s 32-percent rise. But …
Stocks Still in the Sweet Spot
Piloting an airplane is said to be composed of 99 percent boredom and 1 percent sheer terror. Similarly, life on Wall Street is often 90 percent tedium and 10 percent pure adrenaline …
The ONE number to watch now …
The first quarter concluded on Monday with stocks (as measured by the S&P 500) registering a 1.8 percent gain for the first three months of the year. The modest rise so far …
Looking Beyond the Tapering and Interest Rate Debate
To taper or not to taper? That is the big question facing the Federal Reserve. And as I have pointed out in Money and Markets’ columns, it’s the Fed’s actions that investors …
Welcome to the New Normal and the Bernanke-Yellen Put
As I recently pointed out in a Money and Markets’ column, the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies have created a state of stable economic disequilibrium where savers are unfairly punished while risk …
How to Succeed Unconventionally at Investing
How many eyes are on the exit, you might be asking yourself, with the S&P 500 breaking records almost daily in this six-year-old bull market? Just when are stocks overvalued? What’s an …
Three Things to Keep in Mind for Your Portfolio as Markets Seesaw
So far, it’s been a whipsaw year for stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average began the year at 16,577 and declined 5 percent during January. February proved to be much better for …
Investors, Enjoy the Sweet Spot While It Lasts
As I pointed out in last week’s Money and Markets column, a state of stable economic disequilibrium is just what the market needs to maintain its lofty level and perhaps even move …
Forget Fed Watching; Growth Is the Magic Elixir
In the popular original Disney film Mary Poppins, Bert, a jack-of-all-trades, is portrayed as Mary’s best friend and at times trusted advisor. While Bert couldn’t have known it at the time, his …
Separating the Signal from the Noise as Stocks Peak
Successful investing involves focusing on the facts and stats that matter, and disregarding the information that is of no decision-making value. Unfortunately for investors, most of the information that the mainstream media …
‘The Exposed Eight’ Are Bearing Down on Your Investments
With U.S. stocks posting their worst monthly decline since May 2012, many everyday investors are asking: What’s going on? Why the turmoil? It was Mark Twain who said that “history never repeats …
Companies With Earnings Power Can Break Through Wall of Worry
Some investors may be scratching their heads as the S&P 500 has sunk 3 percent this year after surging 32 percent in 2013. Has something fundamentally changed and, if so, what should …
Learn to Invest the Way Ted Williams Played Baseball
After roaring to their biggest gain since the 1990s last year, U.S. stocks are hitting new records in the New Year. As my colleague Doug Davenport has pointed out, all signs are …
BDCs Can Give You Higher Yields in a Low-Yield World
Are you looking for more yield in a low-yield world? Your answer probably is: Of course, I am. Who isn’t? If that’s the case, you might consider adding business development companies (BDCs) …
3 Simple Steps to Profit in These Unusual Times
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, having climbed 5 percent in the last 12 trading days in December, completed a Santa Claus rally that is expected to continue well into 2014. Indeed, confidence …
6 Counterpoints to my Prediction of a Stock-Market Correction
In recent Money and Markets columns, I presented a number of specific reasons why the market is due for a pullback. To support that point of view, I have indentified several factors …
Warren Buffett Helps Support my View That Stocks Are Overvalued
Like it or not, it’s a fact: Using any historical valuation metric, the U.S. stock market is overvalued. For example, in last week’s Money and Markets column, I pointed out that the …
Staying Fully Invested in Stocks Is Insanity
In last week’s Money and Markets column, I showed the following chart, which uses the Shiller P/E ratio to measure the value of the U.S. stock market on a price-to-earnings basis. In …
How Long Before This Stock-Market Bubble Bursts?
In last week’s Money and Markets column, I told an imaginary story about a small town on the East Coast to explain Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s unconventional plan for solving the …
Bernanke’s Sacred Mission Drives Fed Policy
In past Money and Markets columns, I have been skeptical of Ben Bernanke’s and the Federal Reserve’s policies of keeping interest rates low and purchasing trillions of dollars of securities in an …
Here’s Another Danger Sign That Stock Investors Will Ignore
In my Money and Markets column on Oct. 23, as U.S. stocks were rising to a record high, I warned that a big drop is inevitable. The main reason, I argued, is …
Why the Fed’s Bernanke Must Hide the Truth to Do His Job
In last week’s Money and Markets column, I explained that the Federal Reserve’s policy of keeping interest rates low and purchasing trillions of dollars in securities is pushing investors further into the …
The Fed Is Pushing You Further Into the Danger Zone
It’s become increasingly apparent that the Federal Reserve’s policy of keeping interest rates low and purchasing trillions of dollars in securities is doing little to boost the economy. In fact, the Fed’s …
