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How "The Most Boring Business on Earth" Made an Ordinary Investor into a Billionaire
2024 Sep 18, 3:24pm | 1717Today you’re getting a sneak peek at one of the Benzinga Research’s weekly research reports, in which our analysts break down the most explosive and potentially profitable opportunities on their radar. Today, we cover a "boring" business model that has dramatically outperformed markets...
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How To Trade Tomorrow's Fed Rate Cut
2024 Sep 17, 12:47pm | 631This Wednesday we have one of the most watched FOMC events with the Fed likely to start their first interest rate cut in several years. This is also ahead of the key September option expiration (op-ex) which is also a Triple Witching event. The combination of these two events likely will have some...
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Okta's Costly Cyber Security Failures: A $60 Million Lesson in Transparency
2024 Sep 16, 1:28pm | 1241In January 2022, Okta experienced a data security breach, but it took the company two months to reveal the full extent of the incident’s impact. When Okta finally disclosed the details, management downplayed both the severity of the breach and the company’s inadequate security measures...
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Three Stocks Raising Dividends at 4x the Rate of Inflation
2024 Sep 16, 12:58pm | 631After surging as high as 9.2% in 2022, inflation is back down to 2.5% year-over-year, according to the Labor Department. But polls show inflation is still the top economic concern for Americans. It's easy to see why—with groceries costing 21% more than they did four years ago, it can easily cancel...
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The Power of Ruthless Deep Value Investing
2024 Sep 13, 2:04pm | 977I do this little exercise a couple of times a year on average. I am going to tell you something that flies in the face of everything you believe about investing. If you took investing and finance classes in college, this little experiment would make your professor mad enough to spit. If you are a...
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This 6.5% Dividend Star Is as RecessionProof as It Gets
2024 Sep 12, 2:25pm | 1465With Fed Chair Jerome Powell very clearly signaling a rate cut of at least 25 basis points ahead of hisSeptember 17 conference—and possible as high as 50—you can find no shortage of stock market bullsanticipating a flood of cheap money. But for over a year now, I've said investors should be careful...
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Brokedown Palace: Reflections On 9/11's 23rd Anniversary And The Role Of Cannabis In Recovery
2024 Sep 11, 4:38pm | 2649By Todd Harrison via Cannabis Confidential (September 11) “It’s a far gone lullaby sung many years ago; mama, mama many worlds I’ve come since I first left home “ Grateful Dead It was a beautiful, crisp September morning as I looked up from my Wall Street Journal to watch...
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How To Profit From the Treasury Yield Drop
2024 Sep 11, 1:06pm | 550History also tells us that the bond market tends to be "right" a lot earlier than the stock market. Therefore, the enormous decline in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield that has taken place since late-April (from 4.7% to 3.7%) has been very telling. The question now is what it’s telling us. Has...
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How To Trade PLTR Being Added To The S&P 500
2024 Sep 10, 3:31pm | 313Palantir Technologies (PLTR) is in the news after Friday’s announcement that the stock is being added to the S&P 500 index. No wonder – inclusion into the S&P 500 has triggered automatic buying, as index funds and others who have to match the S&P 500 are now forced to add...
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Three Stocks Warren Buffett Is Selling as a Recession Nears
2024 Sep 09, 1:15pm | 573Friday's jobs report marked the second month in a row with substantially fewer jobs created than analysts expected—renewing fears that a recession is imminent, if not already underway. With all three major market indices sliding on the news, the selloff may just be getting started. And none other...
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The Power of Stories in Wall Street
2024 Sep 06, 2:01pm | 1181I love stories, and I have since I was a little kid. I could get lost in books full of stories about astronauts, cowboys, and pirates. Especially pirates. I still love stories well told. I am still likely to be found reading a novel by a favorite author that tells a great story most evenings. Most...
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An Oil Trade To Extract Money From These "Sloppy Markets"
2024 Sep 05, 1:04pm | 521Markets have officially gotten sloppy and somewhat range-bound, which means that for charts with less implied volatility, we can look to iron condors to extract money from the market via time or theta decay as prices chop within a range. Let's take a look at one of these low volatility stocks...
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Predictable Portfolio Income During Unpredictable Times: My Favorite High-Income ETF That Pays Me Every Single Month
2024 Sep 05, 10:16am | 2222When it comes to "unpredictable times," I'd argue we're in the thick of it. Between underwhelming Q2 earnings reports from the Magnificent 7, troublesome inflation, the "Yen Carry Trade" unwinding, and most recently the -818,000 downward revision of nonfarm payrolls — times are quite unpredictable...
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Why Markets Could Rally Ahead of November's Elections
2024 Sep 04, 12:36pm | 1008There's no question that the stock market has lost its momentum over the last 10 days or so. However, this isn't a bad sign at all. In fact, it's normal and healthy. After a rally of over 10% in the S&P 500 in less than three weeks, it should be no surprise that the...
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NVIDIA Will Keep Crashing Until This Happens
2024 Sep 03, 2:24pm | 292As I'm writing this, NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) stock is down more than 8% for the day, trading at about $109 and change. The thing is, I'm not seeing a lot of put buying. In other words, this drop isn't caused by bearish traders betting on NVIDIA tanking. Rather, what we’re seeing here is bullish...