Stocks to buy

Tom Yeung here with the Sunday Digest.  In mid-2019, the U.S. Federal Reserve began cutting interest rates for the first time since the 2007-’08 global financial crisis. The U.S. economy was beginning to slow, and economists were worried that trade disputes and weak global growth could send America into a recession. The COVID-19 pandemic the
Tom Yeung here with this week’s Sunday Digest. Last week, I discussed the contrarian bets that billionaire investors often make. By looking beyond basic corporate labels, successful fund managers like Joel Greenblatt often can recognize overlooked opportunities, like Marriott’s “toxic waste” spinoff in the early 1990s. As I said last week: Over the next three
For the past three years, the markets have been haunted by a particularly ghastly boogeyman – inflation. But today’s Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report suggests that boogeyman has been officially vanquished. And with inflation normalized, it seems stocks are set to keep rallying to record highs.  Indeed, this morning’s inflation data showed that the Federal
Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest.  During the early 1990s real estate crisis, the Marriott Corp. hotel chain found itself in trouble. The company had overexpanded during the boom times of the 1980s, and the ensuing crash had left it with over a hundred unsellable hotels in an overbuilt market.  To save the firm,
Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest.  Last week, I wrote about “Gravity Pleasure Road,” the world’s first modern roller coaster with a built-in lift hill that could pull cars back up a slope. Stocks had been on a roller-coaster ride, and a rare economic event suggested that a similar “lift” was on the horizon.