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My 10 stocks for a core portfolio–you’ll have to sign up as a member (it’s free) to read the post with all the “why’s” in the Jim’s Extra section of this site

My 10 stocks for a core portfolio–you’ll have to sign up as a member (it’s free) to read the post with all the “why’s” in the Jim’s Extra section of this site

I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...
Your 10 Best Stocks for a Core Portfolio–and the “Why” for each pick

Your 10 Best Stocks for a Core Portfolio–and the “Why” for each pick

I think a well-constructed portfolio should resemble an onion. (Yes, to continue the analogy, it may make you cry in the short term, but the end result after cooking time is yummy.) At the center of that onion is a core built of stocks with extremely high,...
It’s not that Wall Street loved the potential Biden tax hikes today after hating them yesterday–it’s just that the market remembered there’s profit to be made today while the tax increases are a long way off–if ever

It’s not that Wall Street loved the potential Biden tax hikes today after hating them yesterday–it’s just that the market remembered there’s profit to be made today while the tax increases are a long way off–if ever

Yesterday, a quite promising early stock market rally got derailed on news stories–based on anonymous sources–that the Biden administration would propose tax increases on wealthy Americans and corporations. The speculation points to an increase in the top...
Friday’s move in tech signals that’s where you want to be for a second quarter earnings blowout

Apparently everybody decided today that tomorrow’s March jobs report will show accelerating economic growth

With the financial markets closed tomorrow for Good Friday, traders and investors jumped in to buy today ahead of what is expected to be a jobs report tomorrow morning showing unemployment dropping to 6.0% (by the official measure) from 6.2% in February. The Standard...
Today’s rally: Was it Biden or Netflix?

Today’s rally: Was it Biden or Netflix?

Today the Standard & Poor’s 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the NASDAQ Composite all hit record highs. Likely cause? The peaceful inauguration of Joe Biden as President? Yesterday’s report of blow out gains in subscribers in the fourth...
Welcome back Santa Claus rally

Welcome back Santa Claus rally

With President Donald Trump signing the coronavirus stimulus/relief and fiscal 2021 government spending bill, financial markets can go back to their favorite holiday week activity–using the opportunity afforded by shrunken volumes to push up stocks. As of the...