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If you want to make life-changing returns in the stock market, focus on long-term investing, which generally involves holding equities for periods of five years or more. This strategy helps investors ignore the short-term volatility, giving time for a company's real value to shine through. Consistent dividend payments help juice returns by adding a source of compounding passive income. Let's discu...
If you want to make life-changing returns in the stock market, focus on long-term investing, which generally involves holding equities for periods of five years or more. This strategy helps investors ignore the short-term volatility, giving time for a company's real value to shine through. Consistent dividend payments help juice returns by adding a source of compounding passive income. Let's discuss why Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE +2.69%) and Home Depot (HD +3.96%) could make great stocks to buy for the long haul. Alpine Income Property Trust Alpine Income is a real estate investment trust (REIT). These are a class of companies that are exempt from federal corporate income taxes as long as they return the vast majority of their profits to shareholders through a dividend. REITs give regular people access to consistent wealth generated by real estate without the headaches associated with traditional property ownership. And Alpine Income stands out because of its small size and epic long-term growth potential. In physics, the smaller something is, the less force is needed to move it. And this concept can also hold true in financial markets, where smaller companies often have an easier time finding deals that can move the needle. For Alpine Income, this has included a flurry of recent purchases, such as the $20.7 million acquisition of 177,441 square feet of property anchored by mainstream brands like Walmart Supercenter and TJ Maxx. Expand NYSE : PINE Alpine Income Property Trust Today's Change ( 2.69 %) $ 0.49 Current Price $ 18.72 Key Data Points Market Cap $275M Day's Range $ 18.25 - $ 18.77 52wk Range $ 13.10 - $ 20.80 Volume 97K Avg Vol 188K Gross Margin 34.32 % Dividend Yield 6.34 % While such acquisitions would be a drop in the bucket for larger REITs, they are massive compared to Alpine Income's market capitalization of just $287 million. They should help the company grow its earnings and maintain its dividend. Alpine Income aims for high-quality, well-c...
lyash01/iStock via Getty Images Venture Global ( VG ) up 0.9% on Monday as Morgan Stanley double upgraded to Overweight from Underweight, and Cheniere Energy ( LNG ) up 1.5% as the bank raised its recommendation to Overweight from Equal Weight, with respective $22 and $313 price targets, while also raising its liquefied natural gas industry view to In-Line. Events in the Middle East, including sub...
lyash01/iStock via Getty Images Venture Global ( VG ) up 0.9% on Monday as Morgan Stanley double upgraded to Overweight from Underweight, and Cheniere Energy ( LNG ) up 1.5% as the bank raised its recommendation to Overweight from Equal Weight, with respective $22 and $313 price targets, while also raising its liquefied natural gas industry view to In-Line. Events in the Middle East, including substantial damage to the Ras Laffan LNG complex in Qatar, have improved the outlook for U.S. LNG exporters, and what started as a significant but transitory capacity outage has escalated to a multiyear loss of supply, tightening 2026 and mitigating oversupply in 2027-2028, Morgan Stanley analyst Devin McDermott said in his upgrade. Venture Global ( VG ) offers the most upside exposure to rising global LNG prices, the analyst said, with each $1/MMBtu change in margins on unsold capacity impacting 2026 EBITDA by $575M-$625M, ~10% at the midpoint during the past three weeks, forward margins for the balance of this year have risen by ~$10/MMBtu, adding ~$6B to his prior 2026 estimate. In addition to higher near-term cash flow, McDermott also gives valuation credit for value-accretive bolt-on expansions at both the Plaquemines and CP2 projects in the bank's base case, which lifts his base case stock price target in line with his prior $22 bull case. Cheniere's ( LNG ) portfolio is largely contracted, providing stable cash flows in any commodity price environment and limiting direct exposure to the recent spike in Asian and European natural gas prices, McDermott said, adding that higher prices over the last three weeks add $500M to his FY 2026 estimate, a 7% increase from his prior forecast. More importantly, the improved macro backdrop increases the likelihood of additional growth projects reaching a positive FID over the next 1-2 years, the analyst said, prompting him to factor additional expansion at both Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi into his base case while also reducing the ...
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Ban Sports Betting Via Prediction Markets Lawmakers have never met a market they didn't want to control. And when they can't do that, they try to crush them - sometimes after taking six-figure donations from competing lobbies. To wit; Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and John Curtis (R-UT), on Monday introduced legislation that would prohibit federally regulated pre...
Lawmakers Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Ban Sports Betting Via Prediction Markets Lawmakers have never met a market they didn't want to control. And when they can't do that, they try to crush them - sometimes after taking six-figure donations from competing lobbies. To wit; Sens. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and John Curtis (R-UT), on Monday introduced legislation that would prohibit federally regulated prediction-market platforms from offering wagers on sports events , targeting what they call a regulatory backdoor that has let online betting proliferate beyond state control. Reading between the lines, prediction market betting is clearly a threat to the old guard. The bill, titled the Prediction Markets Are Gambling Act , would bar entities overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - including leading platforms Kalshi and Polymarket’s U.S. operations - from listing or trading contracts tied to the outcomes of any sporting event or athletic competition. It would also extend the prohibition to “ casino-style games ” such as slot machines, video poker, blackjack and bingo. The measure marks the first bipartisan Senate legislation aimed squarely at prediction markets’ expansion into sports wagering. The push comes as the broader U.S. sports-betting industry - legalized nationwide after a landmark 2018 Supreme Court ruling - generated a record handle of roughly $167 billion and gross gaming revenue of about $17 billion in 2025. More than 90% of those bets are placed online or via mobile apps operated by companies such as DraftKings Inc. and Flutter Entertainment Plc.’s FanDuel . Yet prediction markets, which structure wagers as yes-or-no event contracts under CFTC oversight rather than state gambling licenses, have carved out a parallel lane. These platforms, which gained prominence during the 2024 presidential election, now derive a significant share of volume from professional and college sports, offering bets even in states that prohibit traditional sportsbooks. OF...
Victories in Paris and Marseille suggest a united left can reclaim centre-ground voters. But the end of Macronism is leaving a complex political landscape In 2002, divisions on the left allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to shock France by reaching the run-off in that year’s presidential election. Lionel Jospin, the defeated Socialist candidate in the poll, would subsequently recall the humiliation to remi...
Victories in Paris and Marseille suggest a united left can reclaim centre-ground voters. But the end of Macronism is leaving a complex political landscape In 2002, divisions on the left allowed Jean-Marie Le Pen to shock France by reaching the run-off in that year’s presidential election. Lionel Jospin, the defeated Socialist candidate in the poll, would subsequently recall the humiliation to remind progressives of the need for unity in the face of the far-right threat. Mr Jospin’s death , announced on Monday, has overshadowed the weekend’s local election results. But as they are pored over for clues to a seismic presidential contest that Le Pen’s daughter, Marine, believes she can win next year, it is clear that alliances – or their absence – will shape that race too. In Paris and Marseille, Socialist candidates won handsome mayoral victories at the head of a broad left grouping that included Greens and Communists, but not Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s radical left France Unbowed party (LFI). Emmanuel Grégoire’s second-round victory in Paris was particularly impressive, given that it was achieved against both a united right opposition and the LFI candidate, who refused to stand down. Outside the biggest conurbations, however, progressive outcomes were less stellar. Traditional strongholds such as the city of Clermont Ferrand, where Socialists and Greens made local alliances with Mr Mélenchon’s party, were lost to a mildly resurgent centre-right. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
The US president claims progress in talks with Iran, but uncertainty persists. Meanwhile, Israel advances West Bank annexation under cover of a crisis It must be tough for Donald Trump: starting a war with Iran, but finding it terribly inconvenient to finish it before collecting a shiny prize from Benjamin Netanyahu or sharing a stage with China’s Xi Jinping. In war, as in peace, timing is everyth...
The US president claims progress in talks with Iran, but uncertainty persists. Meanwhile, Israel advances West Bank annexation under cover of a crisis It must be tough for Donald Trump: starting a war with Iran, but finding it terribly inconvenient to finish it before collecting a shiny prize from Benjamin Netanyahu or sharing a stage with China’s Xi Jinping. In war, as in peace, timing is everything. With the global economy teetering on fears of an uncontrolled escalation in attacks on electricity, oil and gas installations in the Gulf, Mr Trump revealed that he was having such “productive” conversations with Tehran that there would be a five-day pause in US strikes on “ Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure ”. The trouble is that Mr Trump’s talks may not exist. Tehran denies having them. If real, they would be a welcome de-escalatory step. They are also an admission that Mr Trump’s threat risked consequences more damaging than its intended target. But it also means that after markets close on Friday, Mr Trump could return to “ bombing our little hearts out ”. It is as unsurprising as it is grotesque that the US president would speak so lightly of potentially killing hundreds of civilians. Neither is Mr Trump likely to have been telling the truth in claiming “ major points of agreement ” in talks with Iran, including commitments on nuclear weapons and the reopening of the strait of Hormuz. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...