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Natural Gas Prices: Weather, Data Centers And LNG

2025-12-04

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2025-12-04

As we share below, courtesy of FinViz, natural gas prices have risen by over 50% since late October. Moreover, natural gas prices, approaching $5, are at three-year highs. The primary cause of the recent price surge is increased heating demand driven by colder-than-expected winter weather, which is resulting in greater-than-average inventory draws. Per the EIA, …

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Year-End Financial Planning Checklist: 7 Steps to Maximize Your Wealth Before December 31

2025-12-04

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2025-12-04

The end of the year tends to sneak up on people. One minute it’s late summer; the next, you’re staring at a calendar and wondering how to wrap up your financial goals before the deadline hits. A thoughtful approach can make a measurable difference in what you keep, what you owe, and how prepared you …

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12-3-25 Anyone Can Spot a Market Cycle But Few Can Survive It

2025-12-03

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Identifying market cycles is easy; surviving them is the hard part. Long-term cycle narratives often break investors emotionally. In this short video, I explain why focusing on shorter, manageable timeframes leads to better decisions and fewer mistakes. 📺Full episode: Catch me daily on The Real Investment Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealInvestmentShow

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12-3-25 Trump Accounts Explained: Who Qualifies for the Dell Deal?

2025-12-03

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What exactly are Trump Accounts, and who qualifies under the new expansion backed by Michael and Susan Dell’s $6.25 billion donation? Lance Roberts and Danny Ratliff break down how the Dell Deal works, which families benefit, and why this initiative could reshape financial planning for millions of children. If you’re a parent, grandparent, or financial planner, this is essential information about how these accounts may impact a child’s financial...

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Fed Regime Change: Groupthink May Be Ending

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

Starting in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, a profound change to the Fed’s liquidity-providing role in the capital markets was underway.  We can sum up the Fed regime change with a popular quip: The Fed has shifted from lender of last resort to the lender of only resort! In our articles QE Is … Continue...

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Black Friday Sales Results

2025-12-03

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2025-12-03

Based solely on Black Friday sales data, the holiday shopping season may be decent despite poor consumer sentiment.  According to Adobe Analytics, which draws data from over one trillion retail site visits, Black Friday online sales hit a record $11.8 billion, up 9.1% from last year. Per MasterCard's SpendingPulse, retail sales, including online and in-store …

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12-2-25 Don’t Buy The “Death of the Dollar” Story$DXY

2025-12-02

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The #USDollar isn’t dying and its global dominance isn’t under threat. In this short video, I explain why the fear-driven “death of the dollar” narrative ignores economic reality and relies on misleading charts rather than facts. 📺Full episode: Catch me daily on The Real Investment Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealInvestmentShow

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12-2-25 LIVE Q&A: Ask Us Anything About Markets & Money

2025-12-02

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Welcome to our LIVE Q&A session! Lance Roberts is taking your questions directly from the YouTube live chat—covering markets, investing, retirement planning, inflation, interest rates, the Federal Reserve, portfolio strategy, risk management, and your personal finance questions. No scripts, no agenda—just real-time answers based on data, history, and risk-focused investing principles. We’ll break down what’s moving the markets, how to think...

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How to Reduce Taxes on Investment Gains: Advanced Strategies for High Net Worth Investors

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

Building wealth requires more than market awareness; it requires keeping as much of your earnings as possible. High net worth investors face steeper tax exposure, wider reporting thresholds, and more complex investment structures. Learning how to reduce taxes on investment income is one of the most effective ways to strengthen long‑term performance. Below are the …

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Overheating Financial Markets Highlight Data Centers Handicap

2025-12-02

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2025-12-02

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) trading platforms were shut down for approximately 4 hours due to overheating after its cooling system at its Illinois data center failed. The outage began around 10:00 p.m. ET on November 27, halting about 90% of global derivatives volume on the Globex platform across futures and options for equities, bonds, …

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12-1-25 A Perfect Year-End Rally Setup But With One Big Warning

2025-12-01

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Markets $SPX $NDX followed classic seasonality with a November dip that set up a potential year-end rally. But after six straight monthly gains, the odds of a pullback are rising. In this short video, I explain why seasonality supports upside, but this streak makes risk management more important than ever.

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12-1-25 Bear Markets Are a Good Thing

2025-12-01

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Bear markets aren’t the enemy—they’re the reset that creates future returns. Lance Roberts breaks down why market downturns are a normal, necessary, and even healthy part of a full market cycle. We explore how bear markets cleanse excess speculation, reset valuations, restore forward returns, and give disciplined investors long-term opportunities to improve financial outcomes. We’ll discuss why drawdowns feel worse than they are, why expectations...

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A Bear Market Is A Good Thing.

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

One of my favorite writers for the WSJ is Spencer Jakab, who recently penned an article explaining why a bear market is not necessarily a bad thing. He starts with a quote from "The Godfather." "“These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood…been ten … Continue reading »

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HSBC Casts Doubt On OpenAI’s Future

2025-12-01

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2025-12-01

Per the Financial Times (LINK), HSBC has serious doubts about OpenAI's financial wherewithal. The following bullet points outline HSBC's assumptions, which highlight the challenging financial path OpenAI faces. The graphic below from the article shows that HSBC expects OpenAI to run a massive operating loss in the year 2030. Accordingly, they have serious concerns about …

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Year-End Rally Begins

2025-11-29

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2025-11-29

🔎 At a Glance 💬 Ask a Question Have a question about the markets, your portfolio, or a topic you'd like us to cover in a future newsletter? 📩 Email: [email protected]🐦 Follow & DM on X: @LanceRoberts📰 Subscribe on Substack: @LanceRoberts We read every message and may feature your question in next week’s issue! 🏛️ … Continue reading...

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From Secular Bull To Secular Flat: The Next Likely Market Regime

2025-11-29

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We’re nearing the end of a remarkably long secular bull market. In this short video, I explain why the next phase is usually a long period of sideways, volatile returns as valuations reset and the market shifts into a secular flat regime. 📺Full episode: Catch me daily on The Real Investment Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealInvestmentShow

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The K Shaped Economy In One Graph

2025-11-28

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2025-11-28

Tuesday's weak Consumer Confidence report was a good reminder of why some economists are calling our economy the K shaped economy. The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell 6.8 points to 88.7 in November, below expectations of 93. Moreover, it sits at levels similar to those of early 2020, when the pandemic shuttered the economy. …

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Why Peak Confidence Is At Market Peaks

2025-11-28

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When investors feel certain and in control, risk is actually at its peak. In this short video, @Peter_Atwater and I discuss how this “comfort zone” blinds investors to uncertainty and inflates market optimism. 📺Full episode: Catch me daily on The Real Investment Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealInvestmentShow

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TPUs Or GPUs: Is Nvidia’s Moat Eroding?

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

Markets have priced Nvidia as the clear winner in AI chip production. To some, its moat appears impenetrable. Google's developments suggest there may be some competition. Google has been training and serving its AI platform with in-house tensor processing units (TPUs). These chips are more cost-effective and power-efficient than Nvidia’s GPUs. By using TPUs in …

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The Biggest Myth About “Money Printing” Explained

2025-11-25

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The Fed doesn’t print money. In this short video, Garrett Baldwin and I discuss how real money is created through government debt issuance and bank lending, why Fed actions are just asset swaps, and why modern money is always lent into existence rather than printed. 📺Full episode: Catch me daily on The Real Investment Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRealInvestmentShow

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