Update March 2026: The 3 Month Forecast for the Stock Market Over the last year, the equities market has suffered numerous and successive negative shocks, (e.g., Liberation Day where the tariffs were applied). And there was the constant worry about inflation and Trump’s heavy-handed treatment of America’s enemies. From Mexican drug cartels to the Ukraine…
Stock Market Plunge to Begin February Today’s additional plunge in the major indexes is a sure sign that negative signals that were there before are starting to hit home with business owners and investors. Beginning on Tuesday, a riskoff sentiment began but didn’t really take hold until Wednesday, while the plunge came today. It looks…
Dow Forecast DJIA 2026 Institutional and retail investors across the globe were waiting for US industrial companies and their stocks to rocket forth as the US economy emerges from the oppressive weight of high interest rates, regulations, and high taxes. At the confluence of all of those being rectified under the Trump administration, the Dow…
What Are We Learning About Employment Today? A new report from consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas revealed US employers announced more than 1.1 million layoffs so far in 2025. That’s the most since during COVID pandemic in 2020. And perhaps surprisingly, it’s the tech sector that’s seeing the greatest carnage. CGC reports that technology companies…
Stock Market Forecast The 2026 Stock Market Outlook: Bull Market Supercycle or Policy Peak? Summary of this post: The current stock market forecast remains bullish for the long term, with the S&P 500 projected to reach 7,800 by year-end 2026. This trajectory is driven by three primary factors: the maturation of the AI earnings cycle,…
Market Stumbles on Poor Jobs Data The week of November 3rd to 7th looks like it will be one of the worst since April. Not enough for alarms, but this sag since Oct 30th is beginning to weigh on investors, who yesterday were rattled by the latest jobs report. Yesterday, the Dow Jones fell 0.84%,…
Stock Markets Faltering Ahead of the Holiday Season As we near the end of October 2025, the mood of the stock market is one of lingering optimism and renewed uncertainty. This week’s market pullback has created more volatility, challenging the latest record-setting rally, and putting some fear in the minds of investors, who might be…
Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ: BITF): A Vertical Shift Upward to AI Infrastructure Update: Bitfarms, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, initially established itself as a global, vertically integrated Bitcoin mining company. Fast forward to now, the company is relocating to the US, rebranded as Keel Infrastructure, a new company focused on AI infrastructure and…
Should You Sell Your Stocks Right Now? There is significant concern about the stock market right now. It comes from being too hot for too long with excessive valuations and some negatives around trade, inflation, and government debt. The fact that gold, silver and other commodities are so hot at the same time as the…
Stock Market Forecast for the Next 5 Years In this report, we focus on the longer-term outlook with some predictions. It’s all post tariff adjustments where deregulation is successful. Deregulation is underappreciated in how it can free up America’s productive power. It’s about much more than “drill baby drill” for energy security. It’s more about…
Next Week’s Market Forecast Outlook for the Week of October 13th to 17th. On Friday, as you’re well aware, the stock markets suffered the biggest drop since early April of this year after President Trump announced a massive 100% tariff against China. This is in retaliation for a couple of controversial measures taken by President…
October Stock Market Correction This Friday morning saw stocks hitting new record highs, bubbling effusively with expectations of a 7000 S&P forecast. In fact, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee just this week reiterated his belief in the very positive 2025 year-end prediction of 7000. Then today, markets plummeted to have their worst day since the April liberation…
Is an AI Bubble About to Burst the Stock Market? We’ve had massive market bubbles before — characterized by financial fiascos, stock overvaluation, greed, unrealistic expectations and major technology changes. Is the current market bubble any different? It’s difficult to challenge the notion that this is a bubble. The P/E valuations of most of the…
Fundamental Knowledge Foundation for Smart Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market is an exciting one for many investors today, as many consider it the best place to become a millionaire. While investors are loving the returns they’re getting in the stock market, particularly the NASDAQ, the growth in price of Bitcoin is perhaps the biggest accelerant…
Coinbase – Gateway to the Crypto Economy Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN) is one of the world’s most recognized cryptoasset companies and one of the major cryptocurrency trading platforms. For many individual investors, it has served as the entry point into digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Since its founding in 2012, Coinbase has grown…
How to Invest in Cryptocurrencies & Crypto-Equities: A Sensible Guide 2025 appears to be a boom year for cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Massive amounts of investment money is moving into this sector and inflating the prices of assets. Everyone is intrigued about how they might cash in on the boom. Some buy for the long…
A Glorious Day for Investors Markets rocketed with the Dow hitting an all-time high at 45,737 as J. Powell suggested a coming lowering of the FED rate. It doesn’t matter what he said, as investors only look for signals of the trend and when it will happen. At Friday’s closing bell, the Dow Jones rose…
Russell Index Forecast Are Russell Small Caps a Wise Choice as we Approach 2026? Stock market analysts and market economists have been talking about a market broadening for some time. The gist of their forecasts revolved around investment flows into small caps, which are fundamental to what the Russell 2000 index is — an index…
Trump and the Canadian Tariffs Now in August 2025, amidst President Trump’s 35% non-CUSMA tariffs on Canadian exports to the US, the country’s economy is getting closer to a precipice. Canada still has its CUSMA deal but it’s coming to its conclusion next year. This month, flows across the border will slow with Canadian exporters…
Best Oil Stocks to Buy? Investors like yourself might be intrigued, even baffled by the price of oil as it consistently stays above $65 a barrel (WTI). And the fact the Saudis could unleash a torrent of oil has make oil companies and investors a little tentative about investing in carbon energy (oil and natural…
U.S. Equity Market Outlook H2 2025 Now past the mid-point of the year with market signals flashing green, investors are very excited about the last half of 2025. The long-term bull market is on, and investors are feeling there’s not much to dislike about the road ahead. The Trump recovery seems to trample any negativity…
Bitcoin and Ethereum: Waiting for the Big Crash? Cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum are an exciting new investment opportunity, even outshining AI stocks, and they’re attracting investment by the hundreds of billions. It’s the digital gold rush and some believe BTC is headed for $1 million per coin. Quite a bull run for BTC…
Bitcoin Price Rising Fast to $1 Million? (Updated: July 21, 2025) Millions of investors, including institutional investors are buying Bitcoin or Bitcoin stocks this year, during the coming dip or in volatility trading. While the forecasts about Bitcoin’s price were outlandish previously, they are looking fairly accurate now. However, such speculation leaves investors vulnerable, as…
Why Are Investors Excited About AI Stocks? Artificial intelligence, or Al, is one of the most exciting developments in business, technology and the economy. With its promise, AI technology is reshaping multiple stock-market sectors, perhaps being the best stocks to buy on the stock market. Opportunity as you’ll see in the AI stocks listed below,…
Market Correction Coming Soon? Do you ever get that feeling that when things look too good to be true, you’re not far from finding the truth? And one truth is that the stock market is not driven by valuations or earnings, but instead by the emotions of institutional and retail investors — animal spirits. Right…
Find Best AI Stocks to Buy AI is perhaps the most exciting sector, with so much potential with opportunities in almost every area of business and the economy. So many applications for AI, and a growing number of companies are taking the spotlight. Of course investing in AI stocks somes with risk. The stock market…
Is Palantir the Best Stock to Buy? One of the premium AI stocks available is PLTR. After much anonymity, this stock has rocketed in the last 6 months along with the AI hype that’s driven the S&P and NASDAQ. You could have invested in Palantir stock 30 months ago and enjoyed seeing your investment grow…
Sharp V-Shaped Recovery for US Markets How are you playing this V-shaped recovery in the stock market? Are you all in on stocks despite potential negatives that might create a small correction? Both veteran market forecasters Tom Lee of Fundstrat and Mike Wilson of Morgan Stanley are talking about nerve-wracking v-shaped recovery for the stock…
Which are the Best Stocks to Buy Right Now? Stock markets are roiling in volatility against a backdrop of lower corporate earnings. That should tell investors like yourself that the immediate upside is muted, and you may want to invest with the 6 month or 5 year outlooks in mind. On any day, completely different…
China Tariffs There’s a lot of interest in the impact of the US reciprocal tariffs of 125% on China. If you’re reading this from China, it’s not a rosy outlook for your country. And the tariff is just one reason. Unfortunately, the massive trade deficit with China and other nations has left the US with…
Today’s Stock Market Update Thursday April 10, 2025: Markets are Down Today After all the drama of putting the global reciprocal tariffs into effect, President Trump announced a 90 pause on them, with the exception of China which will suffer a 125% tariff. That change likely came on the heels of China announcing an 84%…
When Will the Stock Market Recover? The recent plunge of stock prices on US exchanges has wiped out trillions of dollars of value gained in the last year. Prices were back to levels of April of 2024 and could fall further. Many were asking, when will the stock market recover. And this afternoon, we got…
China’s Biggest Stock Market Loss Since the 2007 Crash As you’ll note here, China has a lot of experience dealing with market crashes. Some of the setbacks they’ve endured were astonishingly bad. The communist party found a way, but in those cases, it was exports that saved them. This time, export revenue won’t be available…
S&P 500 Forecast for 2025 As the implications of the new Trump tariffs set in, and world leaders react to Wednesday’s imposition of reciprocal tariffs on country’s dependent on US consumers, this week should be a volatile one for the S&P 500. After a remarkable bull run in 2024, the S&P 500 has given back…
Will the Stock Market Crash? It’s been a spectacular bull run for the S&P, Dow Jones, NASDAQ for the last 5 years and more, but will the markets give it all back. Is the global tariff battle going to crash the US, European and Asian stock markets. Today, April 7th, most of these exchanges/indexes started…
The US Gargantuan Trade Deficit with the World International Trade has been heralded as the greatest thing all the way back to the 1970s. The claim was based on the premise that nations would exchange goods and services they were able to make, and that countries wouldn’t be taken advantage of or run big deficits…
Looking Forward to Great Opportunities in the Post Tariff USA The future looks very bright for US investors and entrepreneurs. In April, it’s a whole new view, like a brand new country being born. It’s exciting, even for those on the wrong side of the US import tariffs. President Trump’s tariffs are causing some pain…
The Great American Reset As you might know the stock market and the price of oil are rocketing downward and the Dem media are trying to create an uproar on the job loss fears. The fervor is more about political points gained than in compassion for Americans. As the Dow, S&P, NASDAQ and Russell indexes…
Trump’s Tariffs in Effect Yesterday, President Trump announced his promised, sweeping tariffs on foreign imports into the US, and the world looks very different. He lamented that this is the end of taking advantage of the US and it will be a boom economic period in the US. Today, investors dumped their favorite stocks of…
Trump’s Liberation Day: Launching US Business The world isn’t so pleased with Donald Trump since taking office, but Americans are about to enjoy a very prosperous period. Today’s event announced 50% reciprocal tariffs on nations that tariff the US. The event was a huge success for him politically given he not only announced protective tariffs…
New Market Forecasts for 2025 by Major Analysts A growing pessimism is taking hold on Wall Street, as President Trump sticks to his pro-US agenda, putting the brakes on foreign imports, and bringing business back to America. It’s a tough line of work for economists and stock market analysts in 2025. For perhaps the first…
Is President Trump Trying to Crash the Stock Market? 🎢The themed wild roller coaster ride called Mr. Trump’s Wild Tariff Ride is providing lots of thrills and spills for the globe. I wonder if Disney or 6 Flags are designing a roller coaster in his honor, perhaps one that stops and goes backward? In the…
10 Stocks that Will Benefit from DOGE Cost Cutting According to government watchdogs, the U.S. has lost almost $2.4 trillion in simple payment errors over the last two decades. Improper payments, which refer to payments that are made incorrectly by the government, cost the U.S. $247 billion in 2022, according to the Government Accountability Office. The…
Investing Strategy: Buying the Dip Buying the dip is one of the most tenets of investing, one deeply ingrained in the investor community mindset. From institutional fund managers to self-directed investors, a sustained dip in prices is a great opportunity to buy the best stocks at bargain prices. Currently, we’re in a downturn driven by…
The Path Forward for Stock Investors The recent plunge of stocks amidst crazy volatility is causing more angst than usual for retail and institutional investors. Investors are tired, worried, unclear of short vs long term objectives, and uncertain of which are the best stocks to buy right now, if any. With the implementation of the…
Trump Tariffs Spoiling Investor’s Party It wasn’t so long ago that stock market investors were salivating at the launch of the Trump pro-US era with its promise of low taxation, de-regulation, less government interference, US manufacturing support, lower interest rates, and maybe even lower inflation and interest rates. If it didn’t sound too good to…
Is Nvidia Still an Investible Tech Stock? With 94% year over year growth in revenues to a Q4, 2024 record high of $113.26 Billion, it’s hard to understand why investors could doubt the value of Nvidia’s stock. Yet with each week that passes, new events and threats emerge to make investors begin to doubt Nvidia’s…
US Launches Trade War with the World While most Americans quietly enjoy their daily lives, President Trump is creating a big surprise for 2025 – a global trade war. The news media is picking up in the weight of the 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico and how Trump is threatening a severe response to…
DeepSeek’s Bold Move into the AI Assistant Marketplace As you might know, the NASDAQ crashed upon the announcement of performance test results from a new AI LLM/chatbot service called Deepseek. Nvidia was down $1 trillion in market cap at one point! This AI-powered assistant (DeepSeek V3 powered by DeepThink R1) is competing with OpenAI and…
DeepSeek Causes NASDAQ Crash The top story on the stock market today was all about AI and how the industry is going to evolve. It may even have political, economic and military implications. US tech stocks took a deep dive today after a Chinese LLM Research company called DeepSeek announced it had created a better…
Best Stocks to Buy Right Now With all the volatility in the markets driven by politics, are there any best stock picks? Which sector might yield good picks and which individual stocks are Golden? Should you stick with the S&P 509 or gamble with good small caps? Picking winners is a tough decision, but to…
US Inflation Forecast 2025 & Next 5 Years As President Trump readies for his Presidential inauguration in one week, is there a problem lurking that could undermine his agenda for reviving America? Americans are enjoying a strong economy, great jobs market, and many are looking forward to the next 5 years as a golden era…
Rocket Mortgage (RKT) Rocket Mortgage is a top online mortgage lender based in the United States, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. Often called Rocket Mortgages, the company is a subsidiary of Rocket Companies, Inc. (formerly known as Quicken Loans), which was the largest mortgage lender in the United States. They’re listed on the NY NASDAQ exchange…
The FED vs US Business Sometimes when politicians lack imagination, expertise and confidence, they’ll look to inferior policies to solve vexing economic problems. Or they may have ulterior motives — political. As we know from the size of the national debt, debt interest payments, and trade deficits, US politicians make really poor choices. Overspending is…
How To Pick the Best Stocks of 2025 (and which are best) The Santa Claus rally is racing up to great you with its promise of sweet, fast, easy returns, but are the real best stocks to be found in the January market dip expected too? You’re looking for easy, reliable selections and I’ve got…
Unlocking Value: 20 Stocks With Strong Earnings Potential In the complex world of investing, the importance of earnings cannot be overstated. While market trends, investor sentiment, political events and market cycles may come and go, earnings remain the bedrock of stock valuation. Companies with strong earnings and revenue growth often stand the test of time,…
Is Investor’s Wall of Worry Dead? All through the bull market for the past 2 years, there always seems to be some concern that pops up that might ruin stock prices and send the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and NASDAQ indexes plummeting. Just as the market gains moment, some news, political decision, FED rate decision,…
Stock Market Forecast for the Next 6 Months The six-month forecast period puts us past the 3 month spring period through to June where the economy might be picking up significant speed. Forecasts for the Dow Jones average for any time in the coming year are very scarce. It seems bank and investment company analysts…
Bull Market Continues, with a Santa Claus Rally! Last year, Tom Lee predicted a late year Santa Claus Rally that would lift the S&P to its final height in 2024 of 4750 points. He nailed it and solidified himself as an elite forecaster. And guess what? Another Santa Claus rally is predicted for this Xmas…
US Economic and Stock Market Surge The 2024 stock market bull run is set to run faster and higher beginning next spring and extending for the next 5 years under the now-forming government of President Trump. After the initial irrational exuberance, markets are a little flat this week as investors take some profits, and ponder…