Are you in control of Your Retirement Life? In my conversations with you, you tell me you are in control and then some. You tell me you’re looking forward to getting away to places far and wide, from Disney to New Zealand and on cruises in between. Nice. You know Your Survival Guy’s a big proponent of spending money. Yes, live within your means, but please, you gotta live. If you’re a member of my Survive and Thrive Club, you know Your Survival Guy is looking forward to an Atlantic crossing on the Queen Mary 2. It ain’t free, and inflation is alive and well, but as my mom reminds me, “I … [Read more...]
The Future of AI in Retail
The Robin Report's Shelley Cohan and Robin Lewis interview Greg Petro, CEO of First Insight on the Retail Unwrapped podcast, and Ramona Dunlap a professor at FIT Business Management, to discuss artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on the retail industry. Watch: … [Read more...]
Clean Up Your Bond Clutter, Contact Your Survival Guy
You know from recent posts how Your Survival Guy feels about too much power in too few hands. What I’m talking about is when the big three fund companies, BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard, with their immense size, vote your shares with their politics. There was a time when indexing in stocks made sense. But what we have today is so much money chasing the same stuff. It’s like frogs in a pot. Too much consolidation of money with both stocks and bonds. When it comes to your bond money, I like a bond ladder where you control the height or length of it with differing maturities and … [Read more...]
Red Sea Shipping Problems Causing Boost in Airfreight
Paul Berger of The Wall Street Journal is reporting that air transport is rising at a double-digit pace as companies look to fly goods around the disrupted ocean trade corridor. Berger writes: Retailers and manufacturers are flying more goods around the shipping crisis in the Red Sea, industry experts say, helping boost international airfreight operators after a long period of sagging cargo volumes. The strategy, the latest sign of how companies are adjusting their supply chains in response to geopolitical shock waves and disruptions, comes as European importers are seeking to avoid delays … [Read more...]
Oil Could Hit $100 a Barrel
Lucia Kassai, Sharon Cho, Devika Krishna Kumar, and Alex Longley of Bloomberg tell their readers how global supply shocks are intensifying fears of a commodity-driven inflation resurgence. They write: When oil jumped above $90 a barrel just days ago, military tensions between Israel and Iran were the immediate trigger. But the rally’s foundations went deeper — to global supply shocks that are intensifying fears of a commodity-driven inflation resurgence. A recent move by Mexico to slash its crude exports is compounding a global squeeze, prompting refiners in the US — the world’s biggest … [Read more...]
Saudi Arabia’s Extraordinary Real Estate Boom
Mark Faithfull of The Robin Report tells his readers move over Dubai, Saudi Arabia is taking center world stage. He writes: Saudi Arabia stands out as a youthful market overall, with last year’s census revealing that of the 32.2 million inhabitants, 63 percent of Saudis (42 percent of the total population) are under the age of 30 years old. That’s about 8.5 million people, while the median age of the entire population is just 29. That tees up Saudi Arabia as an attractive proposition for development. Saudi Arabia’s approach has not been without its critics, to say the least, dividing … [Read more...]
“I Can’t Afford to Lose Any More Money,” They Say
As you know from here, here, and here, your investment success may hinge more on how you invest rather than what you invest in. My efficient frontier (EF) series gets to the heart of this. It's a tool for looking back at the risk/reward relationship between stocks and bonds. What it helps to illustrate is that there can be more risk in having all your eggs in one basket. Easy to understand. Hard to do. The key to the EF for you is less about understanding stocks and bonds and more about you understanding you. What is your risk tolerance? What can you handle? I can tell you from experience … [Read more...]
U.S. Trade Deficit Widens for Third Straight Month
Greg Robb of MarketWatch reports that the U.S. trade deficit hit $68.9 billion last month, the largest since last April. He writes: The numbers: The U.S. international trade deficit widened 1.9% in February to a seasonally adjusted $68.9 billion, the Commerce Department said Thursday. It is the third straight month with a wider deficit and the largest imbalance since last April. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had predicted the deficit would widen to $67.7 billion. [...] Overall global trade remains weak given the geopolitical tensions in many regions. Read more here. … [Read more...]
Your Investment Success or Failure May Come…
Your investment success or failure may come from how you invest, not necessarily what you invest in. As you know, the pangs of pain from losing money far outweigh the euphoria of making it. We are human. We like to win. We hate to lose. Why, then, do we tend to invest in areas that are going up instead of areas that are going down and offer good “value?” FOMO or fear of missing the boat? To understand risk and reward, I’ll point you to the efficient frontier. The Efficient Frontier, created by Harry Markowitz in 1952, measures the efficient diversification of investments that delivers … [Read more...]
Nvidia Partner Bets $4 Billion on Chip Packaging Plant in U.S.
Jiyoung Sohn and John Keilman of The Wall Street Journal report that Nvidia partner SK Hynix is betting $3.9 billion on the Midwest’s chip-making potential. They write: South Korea’s SK Hynix said it plans to invest $3.9 billion in an advanced chip-packaging facility in West Lafayette, Ind., the latest win for Midwestern states seeking a bigger piece of America’s burgeoning semiconductor industry. The planned plant is set to mass-produce high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, a critical component to artificial-intelligence computing, SK Hynix said Wednesday. The facility, which will also host … [Read more...]
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