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Stocks reeled Monday as the war between Israel and Hamas caused oil prices to spike and added to anxieties about rising global bond yields and a potential interest rate hike at the next Fed meeting. The major market benchmarks started the session solidly in the red after the worst surprise attack on Israeli soil in… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Stocks Waver Amid Gaza Violence, Spiking Oil Prices

Risk-free profit. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? That’s what arbitrage strategies look to accomplish. But what is arbitrage? The term “arbitrage” tends to get thrown around a lot, and not always correctly. Today we will take a closer look at what arbitrage is and how investors use it.  What is arbitrage and what is an… Continue reading What Is Arbitrage?

At the height of the cryptocurrency wave in 2021, investors couldn’t get enough of the trendy investment and the adjacent blockchain technologies, with many jumping in before they could even answer the question “What is cryptocurrency?”. The leader was – and still is – Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency. It hit an all-time high near… Continue reading What Is Cryptocurrency?

Stocks opened lower Friday as a sizzling September jobs report caused Treasury yields to jump. However, the main indexes didn’t stay in negative territory for long as bargain hunters swooped in.   Taking a closer look at this morning’s nonfarm payrolls data shows the U.S. added 336,000 new jobs in September, nearly double what economists… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Stocks Swing Higher After September Jobs Shocker

A September jobs report that showed the pace of hiring sizzled last month keeps the Federal Reserve on track to maintain its higher for longer policy on interest rates, experts say. U.S. nonfarm payrolls expanded by a surprising 336,000 last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday, or the strongest rate of job creation… Continue reading September Jobs Report Shows Pace of Hiring Surged: What the Experts Are Saying

On an autumn Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, history was made. By a narrow vote of 216-210, members of the U.S. House of Representatives approved a motion to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy as the speaker of the House. Never before has the U.S. House of Representatives removed an active speaker and the consequences of… Continue reading Will Cannabis Be Impacted By Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster?: This Week in Cannabis Investing

2020 won’t be remembered fondly by many people, for obvious reasons. The onset of the COVID pandemic was devastating to the economy, necessitating a reversal of monetary policy. The Fed slashed interest rates to zero, as it had a dozen years earlier in response to the collapse of the housing market and the Great Recession… Continue reading One Way to Stay Ahead of Inflation: Qualified Opportunity Funds

Retreating Treasury yields couldn’t boost the stock market Thursday, though a late-afternoon burst of buying power brought all three main indexes off their session lows.  Anxiety is running high ahead of tomorrow morning’s release of the September jobs report – the last major update on the labor market ahead of the next Fed meeting –… Continue reading Stock Market Today: Stocks Chop Ahead of September Jobs Report