Streaming services have one battleground left: live sports
Streaming services have always been missing one thing … and the big players in the space know it. If they want to win the streaming war, they have to win the battle for live sports. Netflix knows it. Amazon knows it. Apple knows it and, based on the news of a joint venture to bring a sports streaming service to a screen near you, Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery know it, too.
Airlines Are For Traveling, Not Investing
Airlines are an absolutely essential part of daily life for millions upon millions of people. According to the FAA, more than 45,000 flights shuttle an estimated 2.9 million people across 29 million square miles of airspace … every … single … day.
What’s everyone want with Macy’s these days?
So, someone — in this case the decision-makers at Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management — want to buy Macy’s for $5.8 billion. Market participants applauded the news as shares of the slumping retailer surged about 15% during the early stages of Monday’s trading session.
The Tweet That Launched Threads
In the weeks following Elon Musk’s challenge to fight him in a cage match, Mark Zuckerberg has been overseeing the launch of Threads, the now-released Twitter clone the world’s seemingly been waiting for. Instagram’s new app was downloaded 30 million times in the first 16 hours, easily becoming the most rapidly-downloaded app ever.
Invest in Fear (But Don’t be Scared)
Fear is, at least in terms of investing, what procrastination is to productivity. As a market participant, no matter how long you spend researching an investment or tracking a chart for a trade, eventually, you have to pull the trigger. You have to shoot your shot (you miss all the ones you don’t take, anyway). So what’s holding you back? Yeah … it’s fear.
Before Focusing on Investing Well, Invest Consistently
Consistency can set you free. I know you’ve heard that before. It’s a vague statement and probably means something a bit different to everyone. In the context of investing, though, it means exactly what you’d think: consistently pouring a little extra cash into the stock market can lead to financial freedom.
Disney has an image problem
Leonard Kinsey wrote a book about the dark side of Disney way back in 2011. In fact, that was the title. I haven’t read it, but the vibe I got from skimming through a handful of reviews on Amazon is it spends a lot of time focusing on tips and tricks to get into closed, off-limits or widely unexplored parts of the parks — kind of like a guidebook — from a guy who’d been there hundreds of times. Cool … but not quite the portrait of a less-than-pretty Walt Disney World, more specifically behind-the-scenes stuff the self-proclaimed “Happiest Place on Earth” doesn’t want you to know about, I was expecting. You know, the R-rated stuff.
Walmart is greeting wealthier shoppers these days
Walmart, once considered a discount retailer catering to low- to middle-class shoppers, is seeing a surge in upper-class clientele. With food prices up 10.9% in October, wealthier shoppers are heading to Walmart.
Diversification is eating into your returns
Take a peek at your portfolio. Go ahead, I won’t look. OK, now, here’s what I need to know: Do you see a collection of stocks you’re proud to own? Are they companies you believe in? Are they companies you can see yourself rolling with long term? How much did diversification factor into your decision to buy them?
Future-proof your portfolio with Microsoft
Despite the wide range of competitive products Microsoft already has on the market — the ones everyone already knows about — don’t be surprised if the tech giant has more than a few other potential cash cows grazing in increasingly greener pastures just down the road.
How to get a 15% raise this year
Want a raise? Most companies are growing at rates well north of 3% anyway, so it’s almost criminal many of them invest so little in their employees with marginal raises. Want to know what’s even wilder? Some of these same companies, the ones boosting employee pay anywhere from 1–3% a year, are simultaneously boosting payouts to shareholders by 10–20% in the form of dividend raises. Now that’s a raise … and all you need to know to get in on the action is how to find the right companies to invest in.
Wingstop has all the ingredients to thrive
I can’t remember the last time I saw an interview with the Wingstop CEO, who I dare you to name without looking it up. You’d think it was Rick Ross based on how frequently the chicken-wing chain uses the man in its commercials. Unfortunately, Ross, also known as Da Boss, is not running the show at Wingstop. It’s a guy named Michael J. Skipworth … and he’s doing an incredible job.
25 restaurant stocks to curb your portfolio’s cravings
Don’t look now, but with the overall market down close to 5% over the course of the last three months, hungry investors looking to snack on outperformers have turned to a handful of restaurant stocks to curb their portfolios’ cravings.
Amazon isn’t buying Electronic Arts, but you might want to
Typically software companies with high multiples perform better than the overall market, you know, in order to justify those valuations. Not so much for Electronic Arts, though, which has big moves about as often as the groundhog sees its shadow … until USA Today reported Amazon was planning to make an offer to acquire the company, that is.
Athletes can’t bet on sports … why can politicians bet on companies?
What if the politicians making policies directly impacting public companies and, more importantly, the environment in which those companies operate, could be bought Worse yet, what if those policymakers could essentially bet on those same companies by buying shares of the stock? Spoiler alert: they can.
What the heck does Cathie Wood see in Roku?
It looks like, maybe, just maybe Cathie Wood is coming around to the fact that clients don’t love losing money. No matter how big the proverbial carrot dangling from the stick that is her long-term vision turns out to be. After all, as of now, that carrot is only as big as Cathie Wood says it is … and, based on her recent trades, it looks like it might be getting considerably smaller.
The monkeypox outbreak is coming for your portfolio
Chickenpox was a pre-pandemic problem. Now, we’ve officially leveled up to pox of the monkey variety. That’s right … monkeypox is here, people.
Coinbase is a Contrarian Investor’s Fever Dream
Coinbase has been languishing in the mid-$50 range for the past month and, as sentiment continues to sour, I can’t help but think now might just be the perfect time to grab some shares of COIN.
Inflation is running hotter than it has in more than 40 years
Inflation is here all right, and if you thought the FED’s last handful of rate hikes and the ones they’ve hinted at in the future will save the day, I have some less than stellar news for you: it’s not going anywhere, it’s hotter than it has been in more than 40 years and, based on the most recent consumer price index, it’s accelerating instead of slowing down.
