Archives for May 2016

May 2016 - Page 9 of 30 - Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From

How to Make Money on the Stuck Stocks in Your Holdings

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Back in April, we looked at the "sell in May and go away" phenomenon… and how you can use seasonally sideways markets to make money every day of the month.

And as I predicted, it's May, the bears have flexed their muscle, and the markets are trading sideways. In fact, since 1950, the Dow Jones Industrials have returned just 0.3% in the May to November period.

So it's likely you'll find some stocks in your holdings that aren't really moving much, one way or another.

But… this is where we separate the investors from the traders.

Buy-and-hold investors, who've been under some heavy pressure this year, will have to sit and wait it out until November, grinding out, on average, less than half a percent along the way. 

But traders can take some of their immobile stocks and start collecting income immediately.

Let me show you how this works. It's really easy...

No One on Wall Street Has the Guts to Say This

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Markets moved lower for the fourth straight week after the Fed kept open the possibility that it will raise rates again in June.

My money is still on a single rate hike later in the year and not next month, but the 12-headed Hydra known as the Federal Open Market Committee (aka The Committee to Destroy the World) said just enough to keep markets worried last week, thus the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 are both up a mere 0.4% on the year.

But, considering that these indexes are trading at nearly 20 times GAAP earnings, (and that GAAP earnings are complete bull because they are inflated by billions of dollars of bogus non-GAAP adjustments (see Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int'l Inc. [NYSE: VRX,] and Sunedison Inc. [OTC: SUNEQ]), this is better than investors deserve.

What's more, have no illusions about the "vast cash hoard" Corporate America is thought to have on hand. As you'll see, that's a fairy tale...

How Big Money in Politics Bought a Presidential Election - in 1896

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Big money in politics has become a growing concern over the past couple of election cycles. And for good reason.

It's been 120 years, but a U.S. presidential election was bought by the rich and powerful. Back then it was "robber barons" like John D. Rockefeller. Today it's billionaire investors like George Soros.

But the story of the 1896 election shows how easy it is for big money donors to buy an election – even one for the White House.

Here's what happened...