Earnings season is officially sputtering to a start in the Real Money Portfolio, so we’ve got some meaningful new numbers from one of our favorite stocks. And it’s nice to have something real to talk about, instead of having to fret all day about whether the latest clues dropped by the latest hot company mean […]
If you think about inflation and interest rate risk, you can sometimes see how that plays out in a portfolio in real time — particularly if you stare too closely at that portfolio every day, like I do. And it can remind you of the value of real diversification — you want to own a […]
We’ve had another up and down week, dominated by daydreams of artificial intelligence riches… and nightmares about the Federal Reserve maybe not cutting interest rates anytime soon. The big picture remains inscrutable, with an economy that continues to hum along well, with low unemployment but inflation that continues to make people nervous, a Federal Government […]
Getting this out a bit early because everything’s closed up for the Good Friday holiday tomorrow. What’s up with the Real Money Portfolio? We did get a few final 2023 reports… and that led to some investment decisions on my part. The Boston Omaha (BOC) annual report came in a little later than last year, […]
We’ve still got a month or so of “lull” before the first quarter earnings season starts to perk up for our Real Money Portfolio companies, that usually begins with Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) and W.R. Berkley (WRB), who will probably have updates for us in the third week of April… but we haven’t had much chance […]
You’ve already heard quite a bit from me this week, since I shared the latest buy news from the $100K Lock Box portfolio yesterday… but I’ve still got a few things to share with you to close out the week… including one more add-on buy. We’ve got news from a few of our Real Money […]
Almost no professional stock picker or forecaster was expecting that 2023 would be a boom year for the stock market, and I don’t imagine that many folks were predicting that February of 2024 would be the best February for the markets in a decade, but still, we crave predictions. People are endearingly ridiculous, and markets […]
I’m on vacation this week, but still have a few thoughts to share on some of the earnings reports and other news items that we’ve seen since last Friday… I’ll try to keep it quick, and there are still plenty of earnings updates and news items I haven’t caught up on, so we have something […]
Inflation may not change that quickly, but inflation expectations can change very abruptly — like this week, when a hotter-than-expected CPI number finally pushed the market over the edge and convinced investors to stop expecting a rate cut in March, or five+ rate cuts this year. That relatively small shift in sentiment, with the market […]
We’ve got a couple trades this week in the Real Money Portfolio, as well as some updated thoughts on portfolio companies who reported recently, so let’s just skip the jibber-jabber about the S&P 500 hitting a new round number (closing above 5,000 for the first time) and get into the details. Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) […]
OK, so my Detroit Lions aren’t going to win the Super Bowl this year, thanks to that teeth-gnashing final loss last weekend. But it was a heckuva ride, my son and I had a great time and built some great memories watching the season and going to a playoff game in Detroit, and it’s been […]
Sheesh, Netflix (NFLX) reports a great quarter, enthusiasm for AI remains high, and we get new record highs for almost everything again this week. Things were especially lusty for most of the big tech names, including AI darling NVIDIA (NVDA) and Alphabet (GOOGL) in our portfolio, but also Microsoft (MSFT), which just bumped up against […]
Sounds like the name of the world’s strangest law firm, right? Car accident? Call Dino, Berk, McCormick & Acacia, justice will be served and we’ll make you rich! Maybe not. But those are the things that caught my eye this week — that’s Dino Polska, some more mild updates on Berkshire Hathaway, a slouching dividend […]
I’m getting this Friday File out to you a little earlier than usual, because I’m bringing one of my kids to Detroit for the first Lions home playoff game in 30 years (well, I’m trying to bring him, at least… crossing my fingers that the weather allows planes to land in Detroit tomorrow). The city […]
January… ’tis the season for forecasting, and for planning… which means it’s the best time of the year to pretend you know what’s going to happen. Or better yet, to argue with other people on CNBC about what you’re sure is going to happen. And that means we should note, if for no other reason […]
Every year we highlight the “Turkey of the Year” at Thanksgiving time, calling attention to the worst performing teaser stock picks of the previous twelve months… so it only seems fair to highlight the best picks, too, and that’s what this time of year is all about… between Christmas and New Year’s Day, when Stock […]
While Teeka Tiwari and Nomi Prins and the rest of the chattering marketers were trying to panic us about how the Federal Reserve and President Biden would be itching to “recall” our US Dollars and take all our money and remove financial privacy on December 13, it turns out that the Fed was actually quietly […]
As a reminder that we should always be humble, and always realize that a high degree of certainty invites the laughter of the crowd… how about that NVIDIA quarter last week? I didn’t know whether NVIDIA would offer up another “beat and raise” update, with optimistic talk about the market for their high-end data center […]
Happy Days are here again! Inflation is over! Woohoo! Or maybe not… but for the moment, at least, animal spirits are back, we’ve had three good weeks in a row for the broad stock market averages, coming out of the interest-rate panic that crested in October, and now everyone’s looking for a “Santa Claus Rally” […]
We had a couple quarter updates come through on Thursday evening last week, too late to make it into the Friday File… so I thought I’d take a look at those quickly and see if they change our thinking at all. Three companies to check on today, one of which ends up being an add-on […]
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