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It’s been another tough week for stocks. Fears over a new COVID-19 variant – dubbed the “Omicron” – has spooked markets, sending the Nasdaq down 4% from it’s all-time highs hit last week. It’s also brought comment from Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, who said...

It’s been a rough couple months for high-growth stocks. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the Nasdaq. The tech-heavy index is sitting a mere 2% below all-time highs. While tech stocks appear to be surging, many of the best performing high-growth tech stocks...

There’s a famous saying in investing that goes as follows: And things look rather “piggish” lately. For instance, Tesla (TSLA) is up 55% in the last month: While I’m obviously pleased it’s certainly a sign of speculative excess in the market. Broadly, the S&P 500...

I really love this time of year. And no, not for the holidays; it’s historically the best time of year for stocks. In the investing world, this is known as seasonality. Seasonality refers to periodic fluctuations in certain businesses (and thus their stock prices) that...

“Be fearful when people are greedy, and greedy when people are fearful.” You hear this investment saying thrown around a lot. But it’s a lot easier said than done. For instance, we’re currently in the midst of a mild pullback in the S&P 500. The...

“There’s shortages of everything right now.” I’ve been writing a book for Simon & Schuster the last two months. To fine tune the manuscript, a fellow author recommended I print out a physical copy and read through it. Since I don’t own a printer and...