Nicholas Vardy
A Success Story from the Steel City
U.S. markets were mixed last week. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1%, while the Dow lost 0.4%. Both indexes were fighting back from sizable losses suffered earlier in the week. Your Bull Market Alert portfolio was broadly flat, as well, though you were stopped out of your positions in Stratasys, Inc. (SSYS) and SPDR S&P […]
You’re Welcome to Profit from My First Covered Call Recommendation
Hospitality Properties Trust (HPT) is a Newton, Mass.-based real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns 288 hotels and 185 travel centers located in 44 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. Its brands include Marriott and Travel Centers of America. Currently, HPT’s yield stands at a solid 7.3%. And using a strategy of selling covered […]
The Other Shoe Dropping?
Well, the sharp pullback I’ve been expecting happened yesterday, with almost all global markets dropping more than 1% for the first time since December 2011. All three major U.S. averages suffered losses of more than 1% — the biggest one-day drop of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 1.6%. The S&P 500 and […]
Why You Won’t Invest in the World’s Top-Performing Stock Market
While Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battle it out in today’s Super Tuesday primaries, the elections in Russia this weekend offered no surprises. After a four-year absence (and an intervening stint as Prime Minister) ex-KGB spook Vladimir Putin returned to the Russian presidency with more than 63% of the votes. Not that there was ever […]
Another “Monster” Pick — And YET ANOTHER Triple Digit Gainer
It was a relatively quiet week in global financial markets. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 advanced 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively, while the Dow retreated a fraction. Both the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 have climbed in eight out of nine weeks of the year. That’s a remarkable stretch, but some stocks now are becoming less […]
The Near Perfect Stock
Seadrill (SDRL) is a near perfect stock — a high-yielding dividend stock in a sizzling, hot-growth sector with profits set to explode. Seadrill is currently the largest offshore drilling company in the world by market cap. The company has been growing extremely rapidly since 2005, from just five rigs to 60 rigs at the […]