Best Cities to Buy Real Estate Buyers and investors have a complex question to answer in which cities/states to buy a home or rental property. The housing market is tight from single family homes to apartments in most major cities. A wave of people have left the urban regions for the suburbs and beyond. But…
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. Although today’s oil price is subdued, it does offer an opportunity for investors to join in on what could…
US Economy Outlook 2024 Are we to believe the weak GDP and economic forecasts for 2023? And how about 2024? The reason forecasts and predictions miss so often, is that forecasters don’t consider politics and news media manipulation. The macroeconomic outlook is colored by politics — China, Saudis and Biden. Know one talked about…
Friday’s Stock Market Action The debt talks continue with President resisting negotiation as he leaves the US. Given these negotiations are critically important for the nation, travelling is sending some very bad signals about a successful negotiation Nevertheless, futures are all up this morning with the NASDAQ leading the way with a .31% gain and…
Los Angeles Housing Market Buyers from all over the US and around the world monitor Los Angeles’ homes for sale and home prices. That search is more than for other US housing markets. Being one of the largest cities in the world, its residential real estate market is one of the biggest too, creating one…
Housing Market Forecast With the economy cooling, mortgage rates at above 6%, FED unease about inflation, and the debt ceiling crisis, it’s not surprising the homebuyer’s view of the short term housing market is not good. Since home prices rose 3.5% again in April, despite crippling mortgage rates and consumer fears, we can forecast better…
3 Month Stock Market Outlook Many investors, flush with cash are wondering where they might invest now that the market looks like it might turn upward. And some forecasts from Refinitiv suggest the last quarter of 2023 will be great while others such as Michael Wilson of Morgan Stanley believe the recession has already started….
Stock Market News The emerging storyline is about the US national debt and trillion dollar interest payments which it may default on. It’s a huge threat to everyone and what makes it threatening is that the Democrats appear unwilling to curtail out of control spending, as their incoming tax revenues fall. The lower taxes is…
Stock Market Forecast for the Next 6 Months Thus far in 2023, investors have enjoyed phenomenal returns on their investments. And yet, we’re wondering if this is the market bottom! The six month timeframe is an important one for investors. It escapes the current volatility to create an important benchmark to analyze the evaluate their…
ChatGPT Stock Market Forecast How profitable would it be for you to have a personal robot (far better than Siri or Alexa) with deep data driven insight to give you reliable advice on your investments? The recent introduction of OpenAI’s new content generation tool called ChatGPT is a big progression for researchers, bloggers, digital marketers…
When will we see another Bull Run for the Stock Markets? Now getting past the elections, we didn’t get the results we hoped for, but the win for GOP in taking the house should help to prevent the Dems from damaging the economy too heavily. There is some hope they won’t be able to raise…
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…
The Dow Jones and its 4 Indices Retail and institutional investors both are scrambling in the face of another market collapse to find investible securities in this last quarter of 2022. It’s in these darkest hours of the markets that everyone rethinks where the real opportunities are. We often don’t record our change of perspective,…
A Democrat Defeat Could Help Avoid a Recession Right now the talk is all about a recession and many see it as inevitable with no means of prevention. Even Larry Summers has raised his forecast for a recession to a gloomy 100%. These people have fully bought into the idea that the economy follows the…
Stock Market Outlook Next Ten Years It’s difficult for any investor to make confident stock buying and selling decisions without a clear, long term vision of the economy. You want some certainty about the 5 year outlook and the 10 year long range outlook. This long range outlook is about more than the Dow Jones…
Best Oil Stocks to Buy? As the price of oil moves past $110 a barrel, investors realize where it might be headed, to above $150. The Putin war isn’t about to end and may persist for years. Europe intends to cut off Russian oil, however India and China are scrambling to acquire that cheap energy…
US Housing Market January Home sales across the US took a surprising upturn in January 2022 rising 6.7% from December which exceeded NAR’s forecast. It seems homebuyers are eager to lock in a lower mortgage rates now than risk much higher rates later. Given the price of homes in some cities, waiting to buy a…
Why do Prices Rise? Stock market volatility is by no means over, as we enter the end of the imposed economic shutdown. The events of Black Friday help us see clearly what the threats and sell off signals are. It really brings home the potential for a significant sell off and this might prime us for…
Are Homeowners Getting Ready to Sell? A new study of 2583 consumers and their sentiment by Harris Pollsters suggests more homeowners are readying to sell their homes. They’re feeling they can take advantage of a hot real estate market before prices fall and want to sell in the next 6 months. They found sellers actually…
Will the Stock Market Rocket in November? Typically, historically, markets rise after stock prices drop. And October is normally that month where markets hit bottom. Last week though saw a number of very positive signs that could help markets stave off bearish sentiments. But with Covid out of the way, aren’t markets ready to open…