Money Life with Chuck Jaffe

Parag Sanghani of the Westwood Holdings Group, manager of the firm's Enhanced Energy Income and Enhanced Midstream Income ETFs, says that the ongoing war in Iran has pulled volumes from inventories early, creating synthetic demand that will keep prices higher for several years. That benefits the oil companies and stocks that Sangahni likes, but it hurts by creating a tax at the ga...

James St. Aubin, chief investment officer at Ocean Park Asset Management, says that the stock market's flirtation with record highs is showing some overvaluation — increasing the potential downside risk — but he only expects that risk to be realized "if the narrative changes, if something comes out of left field that shakes the whole foundation of what is building market optimism ...

Brad McMillan, chief economist for Commonwealth Financial Network, says that there's "an enormous feel-bad headline economy," but the underlying fundamentals are solid enough to keep earnings growing, which will make it that the market does well, or at least avoids a protracted, deep downturn. McMillan worries that when the supply-chain breaks for food, for holiday shopping and mo...

Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research Institute and the author of "Follow the Fed to Investment Success," says that it doesn't matter much to the stock market when a rate cut happens, so long as investors can expect decline and believe the central bank will step in with one if employment numbers change significantly. Roberts says that the market wan...

Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager for equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management, says in the Market Call that scary headlines over higher gas prices, inflation and war haven't created a significant headwind to overcome the solid earnings growth picture. Stucky adds that beyond the earnings results, the economy is benefitting from tax and tariff reductions that are helpi...

Jason Hsu, chief investment officer at Rayliant Global Advisors, says that "thee's the real economy and there's what the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are measuring" and they're different, which is why it's "not crazy for the stock market to reflect something almost separated from reality." As a result, consumers can freak out at what they see at the gas pumps and grocery stores and concerns...

Shawn Severson, chief executive officer and the head of market and thematic research at Water Tower Research, says that oil futures prices looking out into 2027 and reacting as if "$70 is the new $60," a sign that the market does not think any oil shock will be long-lasting. Meanwhile, he says that the economy's continuing strength is showing that it can absorb and tolerate higher...

Steve Laipply, global co-head of iShares Fixed Income ETFs for Blackrock, says that with fixed-income yields staying high and with evolving tools in new funds, investors have a generational opportunity to generate solid real returns and, more importantly, a solid income stream. BlackRock today released a new paper on current fixed-income opportunities, and Laipply discusses ladder...

While much of the focus on artificial intelligence has been on how it will improve productivity, economist Benjamin Shiller, author of "AI Economics: How Technology Transforms Jobs, Markets, Life and Our Culture," says that many impacts that are just starting to be seen will be at least as revolutionary. Shiller says, for example, tha ex...

Kevin Steuer, managing partner at StockTA, says the stock market's rally after the initial peace talks over the War in Iran got a bit ahead of itself, and he's now expecting the market to hover — without facing much downside pressure — awaiting more resolution and clarity. He's heavily in cash at this point — the most cash he has held by percentage since the Covid crisis — and is ...

John Silvia, chief executive officer at Dynamic Economic Strategy, says he expects the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates steady, leaving mortgage rates stuck at 6%-plus and in an environment with the 10-year Treasury rising slightly. Silvia points out that the central bank is not going to be frantic about 3% inflation and reducing it to the 2% target level, but he says that i...

Lance Cannon, portfolio manager at Hood River Capital Management, says in the Market Call that he is looking for transformational small companies that can benefit from changing trends in key industries, which has included artificial-intelligence stocks heavily as his funds produced stellar results in recent years. But Cannon says that looking for those companies means finding busi...

Dana Samuelson, founder and president of American Gold Exchange, says gold investors shouldn't expect the rally in metals to resume at the pace it set last year — when gold was up over 60% — but he does believe that the fundamentals that were in place for that rally will drive gold back up once concerns over war and inflation are a little less prominent. He sees the metal hitting ...