Here's a statement of the obvious: The opinions expressed here are those of the participants, not those of the Mutual Fund Observer. We cannot vouch for the accuracy or appropriateness of any of it, though we do encourage civility and good humor.
Except for the last 10 yrs, Mr T was a democrat his entire life. He does not belong to any party but to himself. What he discovered is that the rich are not powerful; only political leaders are and can get away with anything, and he took an openin…
So his 'bible' is selling for $59.99. Which also is '666' upside down. Irony!
Semi-relatedly, I seem to remember the old saying that fascism will "come to America wrapped in a flag and carrying a bible."
Per BBG --- Day Hagan, Sterling Capital, Cambiar, Regents Park, Rayliant, Adaptive and Running Oak are among those firms included in the so-called Surcharge Eligible ETF list, it added.
More damning reading about the demise of Boeing and their horrid QA / mgmt practices...
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/transportation/2024-03-28-suicide-mission-boeing/
Kash Patel is in Trumpworld bigtime and is one of his devoted yes-men. He's the guy Trump wanted to be a hand-picked CIA Director under a political scheme until the DCI threatened to resign once the scheme came to light. He was a loyalist chief of …
It will be fascinating to watch this unfold. Meme stocks have proven resilient for periods of time, and then it often falls apart.
Purchases of DJT are really "donations" in my eyes. If you buy now and hold long-term, you don't expect to get yo…
... and then Apple goes and does something like this...Not a good move by a company that purportedly places a high value on 'user privacy' ... this is the kind of arbitrary move Microsoft might make in its products (and did, back in the '90s)....
A…
@rforno & @Old_Joe - Your issues with iCloud seem to emanate from more robust needs than iCloud can currently manage satisfactorily. How might these issues affect the casual users who most likely use the system just to store masses of photos/ima…
... yes, I'm a geek and lifelong Apple user & think they do offer some robust and mostly-trusted and reliable products, but think this is a very good case. (It's also why I'm not all-in on the Apple ecosystem with my data and services.)
@rforno…
The DOJ filing against Apple is spot-on and very long overdue.
I especially like how they fantastically torpedo the usual 'security and privacy' justification Apple invokes in such situations.
"Apple wraps itself in a cloak of privacy, security, a…
The last thing Boeing needs is financial restructuring. They need to reinstitute the pre-McDonnell Douglas merger ethos where engineering trumps cost cutting.
+1
The McDonnell Douglas merger precipitated Boeing's descent.
McDonnell Douglas manage…
@rforno
I seem to remember PRBLX being criticised for this and responding in some way, but it would be hard to locate now.
As far as financial shenanigans are concerned there are several funds that claim to look for it so as to avoid it. The one…
ESG is just one data point for investors but the GQP makes a biiiig to-do over it to stir up culture-war outrage in new and exciting ways for them to control things -- and ... ahem ... limit 'choice' in one way or another. (yay, freedumb!)
I don't …
Not to be a tease, but it's available if you know where to look.....
I'm not sure it's mass-market / retail-investor appropriate, but I'm sure most serious MFO'ers would probably find it "interesting reading" in-between posting in the forum. :)
Sold ETRN for a 15% gain in 45 days on news EQT is buying them back.
It's been trending higher in recent days and I didn't get the huge pop I was expecting on the news, but I primarily bought it for a 'trade' on the possibility of a sale. (I was h…
FWIW, CMS seems to service areas largely in Michigan, and there have certainly been major forest fires there also, though not, as far as I know, started by electric utility services.
Yup. But ya gotta take some risks sometime....and we're always …
To be honest, with the unpredictable climate induced weather changes, I'd be very nervous about any utility which has power lines capable of starting a fire. California, Oregon, Hawaii, Texas...
I'd say 'big forest fire' ... any ute could start a f…
On the surface, it looks bullish for equity, but I wonder if a lot of that money is there in lieu of 'safe' bonds? We may get a run there or in moderate funds instead?
I guess it all depends on how long-dated the bonds are in those MMFs? I still t…
IMO Bitcoin is the new forex for retail investors, probably small fries, looking to constantly trade. And I agree w/Balu that once these ETFs came out, it became normalized for the 'EveryWo/Man' and not something only for the rich to play with. But …
Semi-relatedly, AMZN just bought a nuclear-powered data center in PA to power some of its AWS farm...
https://electrek.co/2024/03/05/amazon-just-bought-a-100-nuclear-powered-data-center/
... and GOOG is saying its data center water consumption is …
@Tarwheel -- funny you say that. I'm thinking TCAF+CGDV would be a decent combination for broader equity exposure (with a slight growth bent) in one of my accounts.
SCHD is probably fine for most folks, but frankly with so many people are talkin…
@rforno, I thought options income was short-term CGs, not ROC. May be will double-check.
I double-checked as well just to make sure my info was still current. Per Kiplinger:
Option-income funds designate much of their distributions as a "return of…
BUI... I can't find a YIELD statistic, though share price and amount of dividends are there... Any help? But much of the div. is return of capital. Isn't that very much like my MLP? (ET.)
BUI writes options on its positions, so that option income is…
I think you have to look carefully at the states that each utility operates in. California is to some extent a worse case scenario, although PGE may also be a worse case management scenario. None even inspected those 100 year old hangers and never…
Or it could be the global market leader doing what it does, and has done for a while now, and will very likely continue to do for the foreseeable future.
And NVDA's P/E is virtually unchanged. So there's that, too.
It's far more about AI than ju…
One stock violently moving markets like this makes me uncomfortable....
Could be exhuberance by bulls, newcomers to the symbol buying, and/or shorts trying to exit their positions.
I stopped paying their $250 a year fee as I was not using most of the thousands (!) of recommendations.
Anybody got the article without the paywall?
Yes but it would require more formatting to cut-paste than I really care to do. And while there ma…
@WABAC- Yeah, I'm a Trekkie from way back. Got everything except the original series on DVD. Lost track of how many times I've watched all of that.
+1
If you haven't seen them yet, Picard is great (Picard Season 3 was amazing) and I am rather impre…
Since moving there in 2020, I have had nothing but excellent phone chats w/Schwab. Even when i got bounced around dealing w/a weird issue, they were professionl, positive, and never let me feel anything less than knowing my problems were being add…
For whatever reason, my energy companies (natgas) are all shooting the moon quite nicely today .. EPD, WMB, ETRN, FLNG. (I've not heard any news, though.....)
I trade natgas thru pipelines (which often have most of the income as fee-based 'tolls'…
