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3 Stocks to Dump in a Rising-Rate Environment February was a wild month for the stock market. All three major indexes ended the month in the green, with the Dow Industrials adding 4.4% and the S&P gaining 3.4%. And even with its 4.9% decline last week, the technology-heavy Nasdaq still turned out a 1.4% gain. This may be a sneak preview of what’s coming next for the markets… including three winning sectors and three losing stocks. Marching in Like a Lion The steep sell-off in tech stocks had one culprit: rising interest rates. The 10-year Treasury note jumped to 1.54% from 0.93% at the be...

By Robert Ross A few years back, I was in Brussels, Belgium, enjoying a beer with a friend. The same beer they served at his primary school. I thought he was kidding. Then he explained that Belgian teens were enjoying beer in primary schools as recently as 1991. You can trace this quirky custom back to the Middle Ages, when monks figured out that drinking beer was way safer than drinking the water. The distillation process killed off the disease-carrying bacteria that was commonly found in the drinking water. Schools picked up the idea, and Belgian kids were soon drinking low-alcohol beer cal...

A few years back, I was in Brussels, Belgium, enjoying a beer with a friend. The same beer they served at his primary school.

By Robert Ross I’m sure all of you have heard of ARK Invest founder, CEO, and CIO Catherine Wood. She is a crowd favorite at Mauldin Economics’ annual Strategic Investment Conference. (Mark your calendar for May 5‒14, 2021, and stay tuned to your email for details about this year’s virtual event.) Catherine is also one of the world’s greatest investors. Her flagship fund, the  ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), was the best-performing actively managed ETF in the world last year. Two things make this fund unique… First, you won’t find many actively run ETFs like this in the market, espe...

Dear Reader, One of my favorite reads to start off a new year is Byron Wien's list of 10 surprises, which he's published for 36 years. While I could spend an entire article debating each point in his  2021 list, today I want to tackle the last part of No. 8: "The equity market broadens out. Stocks beyond healthcare and technology participate in the rise in prices… "Big cap tech… stocks are laggards for the year." Big techs lagging the broad markets this year would indeed be a surprise. But I'm making the opposite bet—that  tech will be the year's top-performing sector. Today I'...