Stock Market Forecast The US banking crisis is revealing cracks in the financial system that’s creating increasing concerns for investors around the globe. While optimism has been strong and pointing to a turnaround within 6 months, quantitative tightening (credit squeeze) combined with fast rising interest rates is souring the outlook. And there’s more as you’ll…
Florida Real Estate Market Buyers and sellers are likely feeling a little more optimism about the housing market in February. Inflation seems to be easing, jobs numbers are strong, interest rates may be topping out and GDP numbers came in okay for the 4th quarter. That of course translates well for the state of Florida….
Housing Market Forecast 2023 The whole point of a housing market forecast is to help buyers find an ideal time to buy, and for sellers, the best time to sell their house. The economy and stock market are performing reasonably well, with interest rates peaking and unemployment numbers falling to new lows, wages steady. Is…
Toronto Housing Market GTA home sales have plummeted by nearly 50% year over year in November, as mortgage rates continue a relentless climb in Canada. Home prices on the other hand have not reclined as much since their peak last spring. Remax has forecasted a price drop of 11.4% in 2023 due to a reduction…
Forecast of Tesla Stock Price The company called Tesla built by noted digital entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk languished with high debt and a stalled consumer market before 2020. Then in 2020 when the US government spent trillions in stimulus cash and pushed electric cars and ESG regulations, and pushed gasoline prices up, the stage…
Compare Lowest Home Mortgage Rates Mortgage rates are rising fast and could go much higher yet. The chart showing the mortgage rate forecasts is a bit frightening. Any refinancing you need, should likely be done now at 6% instead of 12% in the years ahead. On a $300,000 loan, the extra cost would be expensive….
Best Dow Jones Stocks The Dow Jones index is enjoying quite a couple of days now in October. The index has risen 1400 points in the last two days. It might be just another bear market bounce, part of the volatility of a stock market that doesn’t know where it’s going. And these events are…
Top Trending Stocks Should watching the top trending stocks be part of your everyday investment and trading activities? Every rise in stock isn’t critical, but some rises reflect major company/product/market breakthroughs that send the company to another level of profitability. Which stocks are going up or down? Which sectors are growing or falling? It’s important…
NASDAQ Forecast 2022 After this month’s rally and this week’s promising rise, the view of the Dow Jones stocks has really improved. But hold on, tech stocks might eventually join in on the market optimism. The NASDAQ of course leads the S&P and Dow in volatility so it’s rise today is higher. Most experts and investors…
Dow Forecast DJIA 2023 In an economic phase where commodity prices are rocketing, many investors will turn to the blue chip industrials and huge companies of the Dow Jones 30 index. Of late, the Dow Jones stocks are showing more promise than most. The Dow Jones gained more than 1600 points this week. Something big…
Best Stocks to Buy Right Now With the Covid pandemic easing as we progress through the winter of 2023, it’s reasonable to assume the US economy and global economy would improve. As the chart for the last 5 years from Yahoo Finance reflects, what was happening before the pandemic wasn’t so good for stocks. Corporate…
US Home Prices Wondering about where home prices are headed? Is now the time to buy, and is selling now wise too? How high could US housing prices reach? Below we see the price forces and stats from real estate data sources such as NAR, NAHB, FRED, Redfin, Corelogic, Statista, Trading Economics and Reuters. The…
San Diego Home Prices Keep Climbing Pandemic or not, San Diego real estate is a much desired thing. House prices in the city of San Diego June rose to an average of $1,080,000 while it was $1,114,122 within San Diego County (up 29% from 12 months ago). The median home price countywide in June was…
Which Real Estate Marketing Channel is Your Best? There are 10 key lead generators for Realtor internet marketing in 2021. And the question for you today is which of these platforms and channels could you not do without? The Internet has made it challenging for many real estate agents in the last ten years, and…
Dallas Housing Trends So much has gone in Texas in the last year, yet as the pandemic misery recedes, we’re in for more change in 2021 and 2022. Texas overall is perhaps the hottest housing market in the US, is looking very good despite what Biden is doing with oil and at the border. With…
Chicago Housing Market Update Buyer demand combined with lower construction output are helping to raise prices in the Chicago real estate market. Prices rose steeply in March 2021, as did the number of home sales. Similar to most housing markets across the country, housing supply and big demand from millennials wanting to buy at low…
Bay Area Housing Market Sales and home prices recovered nicely in March in the Bay Area. San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland enjoyed a positive upburst. It looks like the recovery is beginning. House prices in the Bay Area rose 6.4% ($53,5000) and sales jumped 51% versus February. And year over year, house prices are up…
Russell Index Forecast The Russell Index 2000 perhaps spectacularly in the last 6 months. The index has outperformed the S&P, NASDAQ and Dow Jones. Is going to be an even better year for the small caps on the S&P, NASDAQ, and Russell Index? The fear was that the Feds stimulus would lag, vaccines would be…
Winning in the Post Pandemic Market What can you do when the economy sucks and sales are slow? Work harder? How about preparing to be the market leader when the economy has its turnaround? Crises are actually opportunities to prepare for the next growth wave where consumers have a different mood and the competitive playing…
Why Are There So Few Toronto Homes for Sale? The shortage of houses for sale is a topic has been discussed well on this housing blog for many years now. Not enough pressure has been put on government to promote housing market health. Instead, political ideologies have suppressed the market and now these shortages were…
