Stock Market Today

Stock Market Today

Today’s Stock Market Update While the Dow Jones and Russell 2000 indexes rose today, the S&P and NASDAQ are down. Traders are winding down before Thanksgiving which sees the markets close, and they’ll close early on Friday, creating a long weekend for many. Trading is low today. The S&P and NASDAQ hit record heights yesterday,…

2025 Travel Market Outlook Promising
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2025 Travel Market Outlook Promising

2025 Travel Market Looking Promising If your US-based travel agency enjoys having Americans as your primary customer, you may be in for quite a year ahead. Along with a booming US economy, the rising US dollar will make most foreign destinations very affordable. With private sector job growth, increasing wages, lower taxes, and lower interest…

Markets Wait for the Presidential Inauguration
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Markets Wait for the Presidential Inauguration

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…

Best Cities to Buy a Home

Best Cities to Buy a Home

Best Cities to Buy Real Estate in 2024 We’re nearing 2025 with a new incoming, pro-business, deregulating, lower-tax President and it’s going to have millions of Americans thinking about a move — either across town or to another metro area where life is more affordable and enjoyable. While jobs and personal economics rule, buyers are…

Calgary Real Estate Market Forecast

Calgary Real Estate Market Forecast

Calgary Housing Market and Update With the return of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States, some concerns about Canada’s economy and Alberta’s ability to export its energy products to the world exist. During his last term however, Calgary and Alberta weren’t harmed and fears were unfounded.  With the TransCanada pipeline in…

The Trump Trade

The Trump Trade

Will the Trump Trade Turn the US Around? The big topic right now in investor circles isn’t just the low inflation report and an expected rate cut in September. It’s also the discussion of what Donald Trump will do if he wins the Nov 8 election. The issue has been tagged the “Trump trade” which…

Stock Market News
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Stock Market News

Stock Market News The story of the month might well be volatility, and we might expect more ups and downs for day traders to enjoy and retail investors to fear. Stock market analysts are talking about a rotation out of tech and into small caps, but the real story is about timing.  Because Russell 2000…

Toll Brothers Stock Forecast

Toll Brothers Stock Forecast

Toll Brothers: The Best Homebuilder Stock? It’s too well known that the housing market is undersupplied. Even the affordable luxury market as it’s dubbed is insufficiently supplied. So while you’re scanning for the most investable, lower-risk stocks, there are a few new homebuilder stocks that stand out. One in particular, Toll Brothers Homebuilders has a…

Microchip Stocks

Microchip Stocks

Microchip Stocks – Semiconductors for the AI Era The AI boom began in 2021 but now in 2023, it’s just swinging into high gear. Stocks such as ASML, Nvidia, Intel, Super Micro Computer, Taiwan Semiconductor, Qualcomm, and Broadcom are leading the way in supplying the AI technology market with high-performance chips. These advanced chip sets…

Stock Quotes

Stock Quotes

Fast Stock Quotes Looking for quick stock quotes online?  There are plenty of websites that offer live stock price quotes including Google Finance, Barchart, Yahoo Finance, and TradingView. It’s often wiser not to do research on your favorite trading platform because you’re likelier to make rash buy or sell decisions. Which is why Google Finance, Barchart,…

Oil Price Forecast 2024

Oil Price Forecast 2024

Oil Price and Gasoline Price Forecasts Oil and Gasoline prices are expected to rise in 2024, pushing ever higher over the next 5 years as the US and global economies recover from the pandemic inflation rollercoaster. Yet today prices fell 4% on news that Russian crude supply is back up.  It seems there is little…

XOM Stock Price

XOM Stock Price

Exxon: The World Leader in Oil Production Exxon, (formerly ExxonMobil), is a renowned multinational energy corporation which has established itself as the icon of the oil industry. As one of the most widely purchased and powerful energy stocks, perhaps trading up 20% forecasted value, it’s a staple in most large fund manager’s portfolio’s. If you…

Stock Market Sectors 2024 Forecast

Stock Market Sectors 2024 Forecast

Stock Market Best Sectors 2024 Forecast Some smart investors specialize in certain areas of the economy where they gain deeper insights and thus become more intimately in tune with meaningful, helpful, credible news, expert reviews and economic changes. Knowing which sectors of the economy are investible is the order of any intelligent investment strategy regardless…

Bitcoin Stocks

Bitcoin Stocks

List of Bitcoin Stocks Bitcoin is the investing world’s most speculative and volatile asset, a cryptocurrency not based on real, intrinsic value but rather solely by the hope of what it could be worth. Some investors are hoping to either buy Bitcoin outright and other investors perhaps wiser, to invest in companies that have exposure…

China Economic Forecast

China Economic Forecast

China Economic Predictions It’s a challenge to describe the Chinese economy given it is a capitalist market built on top of a communist system. The country is now at a cross roads and must decide whether it can handle a free, open relationship with the rest of the world. Today’s topic is China’s effect on…

Atlanta Housing Market Stats & Forecast

Atlanta Housing Market Stats & Forecast

Atlanta Housing Market Report Atlanta was ranked 18th of the nation’s major housing markets for price growth in February, but in March home prices jumped almost 16% year over year, showing Atlanta’s real estate scene is coming alive.  Atlanta Realtors Association reports a solid month for residential home sales via the MLS. Remax has slightly…

Manhattan Real Estate

Manhattan Real Estate

Manhattan Real Estate The news right now about the New York real estate market couldn’t be worse. The state is reeling from a plague of bad events that could conceivably topple the state and city governments. The work at home, Corona Virus exodus from Manhattan doesn’t seem to be stopping, and with the fall season…

Banks and Mortgage Monopolies Dire Warning for Canadians

Banks and Mortgage Monopolies Dire Warning for Canadians

Is Canadian Real Estate in for a Big Price Drop? Even in the wake of the deadliest health epidemic of the last century, the Toronto housing market and Vancouver housing market did not crash. And if China had not released its deadly disease, the housing markets would have been roaring right now. It’s like science…

Illinois Real Estate Market

Illinois Real Estate Market

Illinois and Greater Metro Chicago Real Estate The months of January and February revealed the Illinois housing market and especially Metro Chicago housing market performed much better. 2020 was starting in a promising rising direction with upward projections for the next 3 months. Now with the Covid 19 work shutdown, is Metro Chicago and Illinois…