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Ride out the storm with these choices

Dec 20, 2021

Good morning!

The markets are in a nasty mood this morning and it’s easy to understand why. The question, of course, is what you do about it!

My advice is simple.

Play to win or you won’t … win.

Here’s my playbook.

1 – Buy companies that will thrive “anyway”

The super-savvy Stuart Varney asked me about this earlier this morning just ahead of the opening bell and I named Walmart as something I’m taking a good hard look at today. The company is giving Amazon a run for its money and has been a saviour for millions of consumers throughout the pandemic. Solid dividend and unbeatable customer service at a great price. (Watch)

2 – Omicron, Pfizer and Moderna, oh my!

People get all bent out of shape when it comes to the virus. Mask on, mask off. Vaccine or not. Booster or natural immunity. The virus does not care. Boosters decrease risks of a serious illness by 95% or more according to the data. Pfizer and Moderna remain THE best choices and will have billions added to the top line as a result. (Read)

3 – BBB DOA but taxes are not.

Democratic Senator Manchin has said there’s no way he can vote for the President’s Build Back program because he cannot explain it to the people of West Virginia. For once, a politician who actually says what he means and means what he says! (Read)

Don’t make the mistake of thinking the Beltway Bandits won’t still try to ram through higher taxes that are at present folded into BBB. They cannot comprehend spending less which is why they’ll grab more (of everybody else’s money). They’ll vote on it anyway. (Read)

4 – What to buy if you think hell will arrive in a handbasket

Inflation is still out of control and the Fed is still determined to raise rates. My guess is that they’ll be a whole lot more aggressive than everybody’s expecting come January.

Buy very low price, low strike S&P 500 puts on the first "up rally" day. I was hoping that’d be today so I could pick up a few lottery tickets but the market gods do not apparently want to make that a possibility. So, I’ll stick with shares of SH that I already have on hand for now.

5 – Why Oracle is really buying Cerner

Oracle is buying Cerner, a medical records company, for $95 a share or roughly $28 billion. It’s the company’s biggest acquisition ever. Oracle says that the deal will be immediately accretive and that it expects Cerner to be a “huge additional revenue growth engine for years to come.” (Read)

My guess is they’re positioning longer term against Apple which, as we know because I broke the story years ago, has already pivoted into this area. Still think Apple is overvalued??!!

Take a bite!