Investment Management

China’s economy, led by the policies dictated by its general secretary, Xi Jinping, has struggled during the first half of 2022 under the backdrop of his “Zero Covid” mandate in front of the upcoming election. China’s political and economic uncertainty comes as Xi prepares to extend his presidency to a…

  On Wednesday, August 10th, the government released its consumer price index, also known as CPI. It rose 8.5% in July 2021, which was below expectations, mostly on slumping energy prices. Excluding food and energy prices, core CPI rose 5.9% annually and 0.3% monthly, compared with estimates of 6.1% and…

People who know me know I hate talking about politics. Hate it. Why? Because almost always, people’s minds are already made up before the discussion begins. So, with my dread for politics and politicians in general, why would I choose US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent, brief trip to Taiwan…

Let the bickering begin! Release the hounds. Let the political scapegoating and arguments ring loud throughout MSNBC Fox News, and Bloomberg TV for the next four months into the mid-term elections. We are in a recession! Or we are not? I’m Chris Perras, Chief Investment Officer with Oak Harvest Financial…

Turn the TV on, any given weekend, and you are likely to see one, if not all, of the John Wick trilogy movies. Throughout the series, John Wick is described in ghostly, almost mythical terms. He is a dark figure, dressed only in black, lurking behind shadowy corners. He is…

It’s the dead of summer.  The heat is on in middle America.  And it’s baseball season, my favorite sport, and the week of both the home-run derby and the All-star game.  So, in that vein, I’m giving you a double-header day in News or Noise and making comments on two…

Year over year, comparable numbers were impossible, commodity Inflation ran rampant, economic growth slowed and the consumer paused after spending furiously in 2021 leading to this headline across multiple media outlets. Here it is. “The S&P 500 just posted its worst first half of a year since Richard Nixon’s presidency…

The internet is an amazing tool for information gathering and dissemination. Unfortunately, from its beginnings in the late 1980’s, it has also been a hotbed for scams, con artists, and outright fraudsters too. No, internet-based fraud didn’t begin with the recent stablecoin and Alt-coin frauds, NFTs, or Reddit board pump…

Options trading is easy! As the bull market marched on, and since no commission trading entered the scene, the day trading and options trading businesses have exploded in size. Internet, TV, and newsletters advertise that they’ll teach you the tricks and give you the tools to potentially become independently wealthy…

Last week, the Federal Reserve announced they were raising the short-term interest rate they control by 75 basis points. This announcement is just one month after Chairman Jerome Powell said the Central bank was not actively considering raising interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point to fight inflation. I’m…

  The public’s interest in dividend investing and, more specifically, “dividend growth” investing seems to wax and wane every couple of years, depending on the economy and sentiment. Just 6 to 9 months ago, few in the press were discussing this group of stocks with enthusiasm, while many were extolling…

In the span of 2 weeks, a few well-known billionaires have done a lot of flip-flopping on TV.  One well know banker went from publicly guiding up his bank’s 2nd half outlook on May 23rd,  saying the economy was strong,  to telling investors on June 1st,  to batten down the…