Joseph Hargett
Joseph HargettEditor, Great Stuff
Joseph Hargett is the editor of Great Stuff, a daily Banyan Hill e-zine that keeps you informed on the hottest trends on Wall Street, provides you with the key information to make you filthy rich (*your results may vary) and inspires the best in dinner-table conversation. Great Stuff is finance with an edge.
Joseph joined the Banyan Hill team in 2016. Hailing from the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area, Joseph has spent more than a decade specializing in stock market analysis and stock and options trading strategies. Prior to joining Banyan Hill, Joseph cut his teeth in the research department of a well-respected options-based newsletter and was a regular contributor at both Forbes and InvestorPlace. He has worked as an analyst for the small-cap and biotech sectors at Cabot Heritage Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts. Joseph has been regularly quoted in a plethora of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Money Show Digest, Reuters, USA Today, MarketWatch and Sentiment Magazine.
Joseph Hargett,
Editor, Great Stuff
Joseph's Articles
No. 1 In Infections; Pot for Profit; Crapping Out in China March 27, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “WE’RE NO. 1!” Edition Are we having fun yet? Thousand-point swings in the Dow used to send investors panicking and running through the streets. Now? Meh. Been there, done that. This week, the Dow posted its biggest three-day gain since 1931. All the major financial publications crowed about it. “We’re back […]
3.28 Million Lost; Micron Moves; Cheesecake Blues March 26, 2020 Great Stuff
- Denial, Seems It Had to Come I warned you it was coming. I warned you it’d be bad. Relied on me to say it all. (Any Sevendust fans out there? No? Oh well…) Weekly jobless claims arrived today, and they were record-breaking. The U.S. Department of Labor reported that 3.28 million Americans filed for unemployment […]
Senate Knows Best?; Sucker Bets on Jumbo Jets March 25, 2020 Great Stuff
- Mo’ Money, Fewer Problems? They did it. They finally did it. By “they,” I mean Congress … and by “it,” I mean a stimulus package deal to combat the coronavirus. The Senate and the White House announced late last night that they reached an agreement on a historic $2 trillion spending bill. (That’s trillion with […]
Congress Gets Bold; Greatness in Gold March 24, 2020 Great Stuff
- It Can’t Rain All the Time Hope for a light at the end of the tunnel — that, dear readers, is why Wall Street rallied today. Hope that legislators in Washington, D.C., finally set aside their differences to help the American people. The Federal Reserve has already taken care of Wall Street — “unlimited stimulus” […]
Powell Stimulates Nonstop; When Voltron Meets Hoth March 23, 2020 Great Stuff
- The Most Stimulating Man in the World You want stimulus? You can’t handle all the stimulus the Federal Reserve is pumping out right now. In a move that almost lifted the markets into positive territory this morning, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced unlimited stimulus — yes, unlimited. “Aggressive effort must be taken across the […]
The Great Senate Make-or-Break; Elon Hyperventilates March 20, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Corona Conundrum” Edition Last week, I was looking forward to getting out of the house, having my family home, hanging out with friends … you know, typical weekend stuff. My, how things change in a week. But the lifestyle of your fearless Great Stuff leader isn’t the only thing that underwent […]
Washington’s Cash Injection; Fujifilm’s Big Rejection March 19, 2020 Great Stuff
- Bye, Bye, Bull Market Ride A long, long time ago … I can still remember how that bull market used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my way that I could make those winning trades, and maybe we’d be happy for a while. But March made me shiver, with every issue […]
Washington Makes It Rain; Invest in Biotech Again? March 18, 2020 2020 Financial Crisis, Great Stuff
- Time to Make It Rain Everybody’s talking about recession, depression, regression, correction, mass infection, elections… All Great Stuff is saying is “chill the freak out.” We’ve gone from no worry at all … to recession concerns … to full-blown depression fears in less than two weeks. It’s so bad that economists and analysts are already […]
Econ Recon; Jobs at Amazon; Theaters Be Gone March 17, 2020 Great Stuff
- Dead Cats Can Dance Initial reports on the U.S. economy started rolling in this morning … and I’m not sure if you really want to look or not. The New York Federal Reserve’s Empire State Manufacturing Index plunged by the biggest margin on record: 34.4 points. The reading, which now stands at -21.5, indicates contraction […]
Fed on the Run; Apple Stunned; Airlines Plunge March 16, 2020 Great Stuff
- When the Fed Hits the Fan… Anyone else feel like they’re stuck in a time loop? This morning, U.S. futures trading halted after hitting a down-limit loss of 5% … again. Then, immediately after the markets opened for regular trading, stocks plunged 8% to trigger another halt … again. This fresh round of Wall Street […]
