Global markets have been extremely volatile in 2016, leaving many investors wondering how to invest in stocks right now.
That's why we turned to Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald for the answer. He's a seasoned market analyst with more than 30 years of global experience in the markets.
Global markets have been extremely volatile in 2016, leaving many investors wondering how to invest in stocks right now.
That's why we turned to Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald for the answer. He's a seasoned market analyst with more than 30 years of global experience in the markets.
But first, here's why the markets are so turbulent...
With the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all starting 2016 with declines of at least 6%, Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald has developed a strategy for how to invest during the volatility of 2016.
According to Fitz-Gerald, it’s more important than ever to focus on his eight favorite market trends.
That's because they'll make investors money even during periods of high volatility...
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 5% to start 2016, new investors have plenty of questions about how to start investing now.
The first thing investors need to remember is that even when the markets are volatile, there is plenty of profit to be had.
What are penny stocks?
Penny stocks are defined as securities trading under $5 a share.
Despite their bad rap, there are plenty of penny stocks with real potential. Key is finding ones with promise and knowing how to trade them.
Keep reading for what you need to know before you make any penny stock purchase.
Many investors would like to be able to get a piece of the success that activist investors like Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn enjoy.
Over the past decade, activist-run funds have returned nearly 267% - more than double that of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
What many don't realize is that figuring out how to profit from the moves of today's biggest activist investors is easier than it looks.
Here's how you can piggyback on their success...
Regardless of what the loudmouthed know-it-all in the locker room thinks, retail investors (that's code for you and me) don't have much of an impact on stock prices.
It might be fun to think that buying 100 shares of Apple Inc. is somehow part of some larger force of collective wisdom pushing stock prices higher - but with average liquidity of nearly $5 billion (in AAPL shares) the only players with enough might to make the stock move are the big boys - institutional buyers.
When I say institutional buyers, I'm referring to mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, and insurance companies.
It's nearly impossible for a stock to deliver a huge upside run without the deep-pocketed firepower of institutional buying - and that's why it's so important to look for clues indicating they're building positions and scooping shares.
After all, wouldn't you rather go sailing with the wind doing the work rather than paddling back to shore?
I know I sure would. And here's how we can...
Last Monday, I shared a chart with Money Map Report subscribers and suggested they may want to batten down the hatches because I saw a 30- to 40-point drop happening by the end of the week.
Now I want to share that same chart with you plus a new one - and encourage you to do the same thing.
The shellacking the markets took last Thursday is the most powerful warning sign we've seen yet that things are not what they seem in the financial markets. For lack of a better term, it's a bearish omen, despite Monday's recovery.
Today I want to talk about what that means for your money and what you can do about it in the name of protecting your money and, more importantly, the pursuit of profits.
Contrary to what you might believe, not all bears are bad news.
How do single-day stock gains of 40%, 50%, 75%, even a 100% or more sound? If you're anything like me they sound pretty darn great.
Those kinds of gains happen almost every day, but the mainstream financial media would much rather focus on recent stories such as: FB jumps 14% on increased mobile revenue, GOOG rockets ahead 13% on higher top line, or TSLA up 8% on higher than expected sales of the Model S.
Small-cap biotech stocks can deliver triple-digit gains – or they can crash if clinical trial results disappoint.
Here's how to limit your losses...
It's hard to overstate the importance of intellectual property, the creative side of industry, to the United States economy - especially in an era when there is a (mistaken) perception that the United States can no longer compete.
It's a complex, interwoven subset of the economy, and it consists of more than just royalties for music and television - although that's part of it. Software, hardware, entertainment, medicine, science, technology - all of these generate immense quantities of intellectual property revenue.
You must consider that...
...More than 50% of the world's total intellectual property revenue flows directly into the United States. ...Intellectual property rights touch nearly every facet of our immense economy.
...Employment, either direct or indirect, in 313 IP-intensive industries account for some 40 million jobs, nearly 28% of all jobs in our economy.
...And those are good jobs; they pay on average 42% more than non-IP-intensive work.
...IP-intensive industries add $5.06 trillion in value, nearly 35% of the United States' GDP in 2010.
...Nearly 61% of American exports, $775 billion, come from IP-intensive industries.
The figures, from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, more or less speak for themselves.
They point to the United States as possibly the most creative and innovative society on Earth. Even as the overall economy wheezes along, intellectual property continues to grow, playing an ever more vital role.
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Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald on Fox Business sorts the winners from the losers if the market slides 10% to 20%. He shows why a selloff is one of the best times to hunt for the right stocks…
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Ah, summertime, and the virtual traveling is easy.
Indeed, booking your getaway has never been easier: It's just a few clicks away, what with all the travel websites competing for your business.
But there's also money to be made from travel websites if you know how to invest in them.
With fierce competition for U.S. travelers, travel websites have increasingly taken on a more global approach, expanding their businesses or establishing partnerships in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, where eMarketer says online travel sales are expected to increase 15% to $91 billion this year and per-capita consumer spending is expected to increase about 37% in the next seven years.
Internet penetration remains low in Asia compared with Europe and the United States, but is growing rapidly, paving the way for travel sites' push into the region.
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It's rare when an investing secret becomes so obvious that it looks us in the eye...
And nearly all Americans completely miss it.
But one such secret has been so greatly underestimated that Nobel Prize-winning economists, investing legends and those considered to be the "best" minds in finance are now finally waking up to its possibilities--and its astonishing track record.
In fact, this secret has been one of the key drivers in the growing wealth divide between the top 1 percent and the average American worker.
It has grown more pronounced in the past three decades: the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and the middle class has been increasingly marginalized.
Many believe that the ultra-wealthy have achieved their status by either being born into money or by becoming a C-level executive for a publicly traded company. But as Stanford University professor Joshua Rauh explains in a recent study, both of these assumptions are wrong.
The biggest and obvious secret to new-found, extreme wealth?
Investing in technological innovation and the expanding global scale and branding of must-have products and services.
And once you learn how to harness this trend, you'll know how to invest like the top 1 percent and can begin your path to accumulating extreme financial wealth.
The United States' Eisenhower Interstate Highway System was the biggest, most expensive public works project since the Pharaohs had the Pyramids built.
The Interstate System, started in 1956, became the envy of the entire world, except perhaps Germany, symbolizing a nation on the march to progress - a four-lane wonder stretching from sea to shining sea.
But now, in the early decades of the 21st century, that once-vaunted highway network is overwhelmed, underfunded, and flat out crumbling in parts.
Interstate 5 is the West Coast's main artery, spanning the distance from Canada to Mexico. Last week, a portion of Interstate 5 fell into the Skagit River north of Seattle.
The Skagit River Bridge was 58 years old, and listed as "functionally obsolete," meaning the bridge was safe but did not meet current standards. No one was killed, but three people were injured as their vehicles plunged, along with the bridge's deck, into the river.
Thirteen people were killed and 145 injured in August 2007 when a bridge carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River at Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour. In that tragedy, the bridge was found to have been over its weight limit, and some non-critical components had been corroded by, of all things, bird droppings.
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