Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI has secured a landmark position as the highest-valued private enterprise globally, following a transaction where staff members offloaded shares worth roughly $6.6 billion. This secondary market activity, which concluded this week, assigns the organization a $500 billion worth, eclipsing competitors such as SpaceX and underscoring the intense capital pursuit in AI […]
After a negative performance in 2020 the energy sector has accelerated based on President Biden’s energy actions, including the suspension of new oil and gas permits on federal lands and waters and the cancelation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline project. Due to supply and demand the price of gas shot up $0.50 per gallon, […]
It has been quite an impressive market turnaround since the depth of the downturn back in March 2020, but the one big risk facing investors that they may not be fully positioned to take on is measurably higher inflation. Historically, inflation as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) has averaged 2.5% annually. Coincidentally, if […]
In this article I make a brief comparison of growth stocks versus value stocks, a topic often addressed by the mainstream financial media. Growth stocks typically offer a substantially higher growth rate as compared to the mean growth rate prevailing in the overall market. These stocks usually are priced higher in the market on several […]
Are we in in a stock market bubble? One major brokerage house recently published an in-depth report on this very topic. It looked at a multitude of previous stock market boom-turned-busts going all the way back to the “tulip mania” in Holland in the 1630s. The brokerage came up with a list of nine characteristics […]
Many financial markets around the world are at or near all-time high levels. Is there any region of the world where there might a nice contrarian opportunity? One might be the emerging markets. Emerging market countries are defined as those transitioning from a lower income, lesser developed state that is integrating into the more mature […]
Have your seen the term “zombie company” used in the financial media over the past year or so? What is it? In simple terms, a zombie company is one that isn’t generating enough income to cover its annual interest payments on its debt. With the sharp move down in interest rates last year, the population […]
Looking for yield on your savings account has been pretty difficult these past few years. The Fed has continued to print money and keep interest rates low, so it could be quite a while before there is a change to this environment. S0 how does an investor produce yield on their accounts while trying to […]
Amidst all of the nerve-wracking market volatility in recent days, some good therapy may be to refocus on business fundamentals and the state of our economy. Refer to the chart below. I come across many business and economic indicators in the course of my investment and financial market research, but I find the Goldman Sachs […]
Some misconceptions that some dividend investors fall into are that stocks with high yields are a better buy. Buying dividend growth stocks can produce years of steady income increases. Because of compounding, low-yield dividend stocks have a higher potential for increasing annual payouts. Even though the income is nice for high-yield dividend stocks where the […]
