BLS: December CPI
The BLS released their December Consumer Price Index and the data shows some progress but problems still persist. Let’s take a look: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers…
17-Week T-Bill 4.57 Percent
For 2023, our investment strategy has changed slightly. Given the Fed’s December meeting minutes indicated the Fed has no intention of lowering interest rates in 2023, we feel it prudent…
London Has Fallen, Paris Has Risen
We came across an interesting article from The Independent which states that Paris is now Europe’s largest stock exchange. London has fallen from first place. Britain has lost its position…
Portfolio Update
On Thursday, the market cheered the 7.7 percent inflation rate announcement and we took the opportunity to sell positions that were profitable. What did we sell? We sold our positions…
What About Canadian Oil & Gas Companies?
We try to find investment opportunities wherever we can and while we feel the overall stock market will decline over the next 15 months there is periodic opportunity to trade…
Housing Price Declines In Some Markets
We told you yesterday that we bought more puts on XHB and we continue to stay the course with our thesis that housing is about to decline. We monitor information…
$9 Trillion Wiped From US Stock Market
CNBC had an eye catching headline, “Stock market losses wipe out $9 trillion from Americans’ wealth” and we encourage you to read the article. Essentially since the market’s highs, many…
When To Buy Dividend Stocks?
Yesterday we wrote about the great upcoming opportunities to snap up dividend stocks at deep discounted prices but when to buy? We wanted to baseline three popular dividend ETFs: HDV,…
Toll Brothers, DR Horton, and Lennar
We already have put options on XHB and wanted to take a closer look at three key home builders: Toll Brothers; DR Horton and Lennar. Specifically, we wanted to compare…
XHB & The Coming Housing Crash 2024
We’ve been tracking XHB for some time now. Back in August, we wrote How To Profit from a Housing Correction/Crash and followed that up with Time To Profit From A…