By J. Keith Buchanan, CFA, Senior Portfolio Manager With the 2024 Olympic Games just around the corner, the market is doing its best impression of one of my favorite events, the track relay. In the previous earnings season, corporate reports also coincided with macroeconomic data that showed resilience in the jobs market, inflationary stubbornness,...

Soybean and corn production is of paramount importance in South America. As such, supply disruptions could build a bullish case for higher prices in both of these commodities. For soybeans, torrential rainfall in Brazil could make for supply disruptions that could push prices higher. It’s exactly what bullish soybean investors need. That’s because the...

Light at the end of the rate-cut tunnel got a little bit brighter after April showed slower job growth. That injected bullishness back in Treasuries, opening the pathways for traders to play leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs), namely the Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares (TMF) and the Direxion Daily 7-10 Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares...

Rising silver prices may have been lost in the shadow of gold’s rally near the end of the first quarter. But the prospect of rate cuts could bode well for the metal moving forward. Like gold, silver prices shot higher near the end of a mostly sideways trading Q1. As a result, the year-to-date gain [...] The post The Strength of Silver Lurks Quietly...

Bitcoin was laboring around $61,300 as of late Wednesday. The largest cryptocurrency is a long way from its all-time high of $75,830, set about two months ago. That’s a dramatic — though not unfamiliar decline for bitcoin. But some market observers believe the current pullback is healthy. They feel it was needed after the digital [...] The post Bitcoin...

Covered call ETFs remain in focus to advisors, and as such, to asset managers. Indeed, Fidelity recently joined the growing group of well-established asset managers that offer enhanced income ETFs. The Fidelity Yield Enhanced Equity ETF (FYEE) launched April 11. Over half of the 75 covered call products tracked by Bloomberg have been launched in [...]...