A homeless-looking man with a thick European accent walked in holding a $600,000 personal check… Before that, I was having a normal workday in 1998. I worked as a broker-dealer in those days. My company had several offices around the country. Our branches were typically in towns with a lot of high-net-worth residents. Folks would …
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Stocks just went on an incredible five-month run… The S&P 500 Index surged roughly 25% from the end of October through the end of March. That’s the best five-month performance for the benchmark index since 2020. Perhaps more impressively, the S&P 500 didn’t suffer a single 2% pullback in that span. A few catalysts led …
Editor’s note: Chaikin Analytics founder Marc Chaikin isn’t a cryptocurrency expert. But he has spent decades developing leading-edge technologies for major financial institutions. That’s why he wants to share an important message from our friend Eric Wade today… Regular Chaikin PowerFeed readers will remember that Eric is a crypto expert over at our corporate affiliate …
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Once again, the calculus has changed in the Middle East conflict… Over the weekend, Iran directly attacked Israel. It launched more than 300 missiles and drones. Israel and its partners claim to have shot most of them down. And now, all sides are considering their “next steps.” It’s a tense moment. And it’s one that …
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Last week’s inflation data surprised a lot of folks… On Wednesday, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) report for March. In short, the numbers came in above expectations. So-called “headline” inflation was up 3.5% year over year. And “core” inflation (which ignores food and energy costs) showed that prices …
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Folks, as we all well know, it’s an election year. And we typically see a lot of volatility – or “noise” – during years like this one… But it’s not necessarily bad volatility. In fact, history shows us that it’s usually good news for investors… For starters, we need to remember that stocks go up …
$2,074,904.21… That’s how much money a 68-year-old would have today if they had invested $10,000 in the S&P 500 Index when they were still 18 years old. It’s an average annual return of nearly 11.3%. But it’s only possible if they had reinvested all the dividends paid throughout all those years… and not spent a …
The S&P 500 Index has just kept shaking off all the “noise” and churning higher… It made another new all-time high at 5,254 on the final day of the first quarter (March 28). That capped one of the best first-quarter performances in 20 years (up about 10.2%). But then, things got a little choppy… The …
Editor’s note: Here at the Chaikin PowerFeed, we’ve shared occasional essays from our friend Brett Eversole over at our corporate affiliate Stansberry Research… Regular readers know that Brett has been bullish for 2024 – and so have we. As such, we’ve shared insights from him on why he thinks stocks have more room to run …
Nearly eight years ago, I moved from California to Florida to work alongside a legend in independent financial publishing. And to be frank, north Florida seemed like a significant step down. After all, I had been living in Mountain View, California. The city doesn’t have the name recognition of San Francisco. But it’s the home …
