Asset Allocation

$10,000 may be too conservative of a price target for gold up ahead with a lot of pain before we get there, both in commodities and the broad market. A deflationary bust is coming that will wipe out most asset categories, before stagflation takes hold, the Fed intervenes, and commodities skyrocket to previously unimaginable levels.

You are mistaken to think you’ve missed the AI boom. Investors who bet on the right AI stocks now – at the dawn of AI in the early 2020s – are giving themselves the chance to turn thousands into millions.

Corporate spending on cyber security is expected to grow by 14% in 2024 according to research firm, Gartner, and that's better than most information-technology spending categories suggesting that many cybersecurity software and hardware companies should be excellent long-term buys.

The 7 AI categories tracked by munKNEE.com went up marginally (1.0%, on average) the second week of May after having gone down 0.4% the previous week. This article identifies how each category performed.

the daily chart is currently bearish, indicating the continuation of the correction or consolidation in the short term. However, new lows below USD 60,760 are not yet foreseeable.... A volatile back-and-forth between approximately USD 61,000 and USD 67,000 could be sufficient to build a base and to then generate a new contrarian buying signal within a few days.

Whether the excitement surrounding Bitcoin is siphoning flows away from gold is unclear, but there does appear to be some disconnect between gold’s price action and investment levels. Historically, the gold price and holdings in gold-backed ETFs have traded in tandem, but starting in 2023, the two began to decouple,

Image Source: Unsplash There’s a lot of speculation about how Bitcoin will perform moving forward and whether the market will have to wait until the next Bitcoin halving to see any kind of bullish momentum. We have done an exhaustive search of the internet and come up with over 40 forecasts of what  professional forecasting agencies and experts have to say …

AI is the biggest technological paradigm shift since the internet and, unless you prepare for it, AI will kill your investment portfolio, too. AI stock investors will get filthy rich, and all others will spend the next decade playing catch-up.

A report by Oxford Economics has concluded that silver’s return characteristics are sufficiently different from gold to make it a valuable diversification tool that deserves its own portfolio commitment. 

The question of how much gold or silver one should hold is a common one. The answer is usually expressed in terms of portfolio percentages, as in 10 – 20% of one’s investments. Such an answer is without basis. Why is 15%, for example, any better than 100% or 0%?