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Making sure you set money aside for retirement regularly is hard enough. Add in the fact that investing your hard-earned money may seem complicated, and it’s easy to understand why 43% of millennials have less than $5,000 invested for retirement.

For the first time in what seems like forever, inflation in the U. S. is trending higher.

Many of us find value in speaking of, say, factor investing, thematic investing or ESG investing. While each has its own features, they’re all aiming to achieve the same thing: Greater insight when constructing and maintaining portfolios; finding that balance between opportunities and risks.

As if 2020 wasn’t bad enough, 2021 will likely bring biblical-style extreme weather.

As Goes January, So Goes the Year

As 2020 draws to a close the fact that just three stocks had an outsized contribution to the S&P 500 performance is a concern to some veteran analysts. The Viper Report’s Tom Aspray takes a technical look at IWM, SPY, and these three key stocks.

Leading Wall Street strategists have made their S&P 500 forecasts for 2021 but will today’s new breed of investors and traders be satisfied if they are right?

Several Chinese billionaires also enjoyed strong gains this week, as did tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison.

Neil Hennessy, Hennessy Funds' chairman and chief investment officer, said at his firm's market outlook earlier this month, that the stock market is not overbought, nor headed for a crash. Instead it's on its way to 35,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Last week’s stampede into IPO’s shocked many veteran analysts as the two companies had one surprising fact in common. The Viper Report’s Tom Aspray examines the action and what it may mean for future stock prices.

In a low-interest-rate environment, finding high-yielding investments is hard. The GraniteShares HIPS US High Income ETF (HIPS) holds seeks to provide investors with a high yield holding a blend of alternative income sources, specifically pass-through securities.

The drop in Musk’s net worth comes a day after he briefly overtook LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault to become the world’s second richest person. Now, he’s back to number three, according to Forbes.

As more signs emerge that the economy is weakening most of the major averages, even the NYSE Composite, made a new high last week. Some technical measures are approaching high-risk levels and Tom Aspray wonders how stocks might react if there is finally a stimulus bill.

As money managers and investors pile into value stocks and ETFs can one really conclude that a major turn in favor of value over growth stocks has occurred? Technical analyst Tom Aspray takes a look at both the historical charts and the current technical readings to help answer this question.

If Congress fails to act swiftly, and unemployment jumps back up, then expect investors to run for cover.

The U.S. economy continues to bounce back at a double-digit rate.

It could be a contrary indicator that it’s time to invest in commodities.

Don't buy bullion until the gold market stabilizes, a new report from CPM Group says

Last week sentiment data from BofA on 190 money managers was consistent with the recent surprising data from the AAII survey. Technical analyst Tom Aspray shares his view on what that may mean for the stock market in the weeks ahead.

The news about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine lit a fire under an already strong stock market but the strong surge in the AAII bullish investor sentiment put it at the highest level since early 2018. Should that worry investors or traders?