According to NextEarningsDate.com, the Delta Air Lines next earnings date is projected to be 1/10 before market open, with earnings estimates of $1.74/share on $14.64 Billion of revenue. Looking back, the recent Delta Air Lines earnings history looks like this: The company has an impressive long-term earnings per share chart: And with equally impressive revenue growth: But earnings reports can often uniquely bring abrupt volatility to a stock, in either direction, as investors digest the fundamental details. And that volatility can be a stock options trader’s dream come true — so such traders will be interested to know that Delta…

Need more dividend yield in 2025? Consider real estate investment trusts (REITs), which were literally mandated to be dividend-paying machines. Income is the point—by law. Select REITs even yield 10% or more. What a payout! We’ll discuss seven of them—and their prospects for 2025—in a moment. Now we can’t just blindly pick any ol’ a REIT. The real estate sector—using the Real Estate Select Sector SPDR (XLRE) as a proxy—only pays 3% right now. But the average yield among this REIT 7-pack is 12.4%. That’s 4x what the sector pays! That level of income would easily allow us to retire…

2024 is hours from heading out the door, and here’s the state of play: The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for a third consecutive meeting on December 18. Yet the yield on the 10-year Treasury is now higher than when the easing cycle began. Wait. What? The bond market has been screaming at Jay Powell that the job on inflation is not done. It makes sense: The economy is fine. There are plenty of jobs. The market is not hurting for liquidity. Finally, Jay is catching on. And here’s the twist: The hawkish guidance he gave on rates at that…

Apple, Amazon and Tesla did not end the year with new 52-week highs. These most actively traded NYSE stocks hit highs earlier in December and then their prices began fading away again. On the other hand, a few Nasdaq stocks, not so widely followed, managed to make it up to new highs during the final session of the year. 5 Nasdaq Stocks That Hit New Highs At Year End Ares Capital (Nasdaq: ARCC) The stock traded at the high of the year early in today’s session and then fell back a bit as sellers showed up. It’s bullish that the…

Time’s up. The fallacy-driven beliefs and actions have had their turn. Once again, the visible irregularities are stretched. Therefore, the misshaped environment is ready to produce profits from reality-driven investing. So, what are the irregularities? First off, know that the Federal Reserve is neither a perpetual source of wisdom nor an accurate forecaster. Instead, it periodically makes costly mistakes. The 19-year period of Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell has been especially harmful. Its interest rate actions significantly disrupted capitalism’s key strength: the capital markets’ pricing process (interest rate determination) between capital providers and users. Especially harmed have been the…

Algorithmic Trading The term algorithmic trading is tossed around a lot these days. But what does it mean? Let’s break it down into its components. It’s not that defining an algorithm is all that complex. If anything, it is very simple. An algorithm is a set of instructions enabling a computer program to put together different sources of information [data] and generate a result. If you’re talking algorithms, you’re also talking AI and data. Both are equally straightforward. At its core AI is simply a way to organize, analyze, and apply data for an outcome. Data is anything that has…

Fellow investors, we’re witnessing a bond market bloodbath that would make even the most hardened WWI veteran wince. As we trudge into 2025, there’s no Christmas truce – or “Trêve de Noël” as the French would say, referring to that brief 1914 pause when soldiers exchanged greetings and gifts – in sight for our beleaguered Treasury bonds. Yields have surged 20 basis points since the Fed’s last pow-wow, it’s leaving investors with a case of financial shell shock. Uncle Sam’s fiscal house is a mess, plain and simple. We’re talking a $2 trillion deficit – that’s 7% of GDP for…

Key News Asian equities were largely lower on light volumes as the Philippines was closed for Rizal Day, which is a national holiday commemorating the life and works of Jose Rizal, a national hero of the Philippines. Both Hong Kong and Mainland China bounced around the room on decent volumes considering the holiday season. One factor in the volumes was $947 million worth of net buying of Hong Kong-listed stocks and ETFs by Mainland investors via Southbound Stock Connect, accounting for a staggering 55% of total turnover. The cumulative net flow from Southbound Stock Connect is now $102 billion versus…

Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum on a scale of zero to 100. A stock is considered to be oversold if the RSI reading falls below 30. Start slideshow: 10 Oversold Stocks You Should Know About » In trading on Monday, shares of Adobe entered into oversold territory, hitting an RSI reading of 29.4, after changing…

As of December 27, Joe Biden ranks ninth among U.S. presidents (post 1928) in stock-market performance. That’s not likely to change in the last few days of his term. Bill Clinton remains the champion, with a 17.49% annual return for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Total Return Index during his presidency in January 1993 to January 2001. He managed to balance the federal budget (with help from the Internet boom), and to avoid major wars and recessions. President-Elect Donald Trump, in his first term, saw the stock market return 15.95% per year. As he likes to point out, he was…