Breeders’ Cup CEO Previews 2017 Event

The “Super Bowl of Horseracing,” which drew such stars as Elizabeth Banks and Susan Sarandon to Santa Anita in 2016, heads to Del Mar, California Nov. 3-4. The Breeders’ Cup hails as the most prestigious horse race in the world, and this year, the event will head to the historic Del Mar track in Del Mar, Calif from Nov. 3 to 4 – following the Triple Crown races that take place in May and June.

The Pros and Cons of Using a Self-Directed IRA

Dan asks about the complexities of investing in a business via the tax-advantaged vehicle of a self-directed IRA. The rules are not simple, the expenses are higher than a normal IRA, and it can be hard to take your profits, but that said, there are some very good reasons to consider it.

Cramer: Nvidia Is the American Pharoah of Stocks

The S&P 500’s single-best performer of 2016 was Nvidia , a stock I call ” American Pharoah ” because it rallied an insane 222% for the year. The trajectory of this horse had been pretty consistently up until its total lift-off in November, when it turned out that every business driver was doing much better than expected.

Charting the Good and the Bad for the Year in Technology: Gadfly

The combined market value of tech’s Five Fab — Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. — was $2.4 trillion as of Dec. 27, or more than 11 percent of the S&P 500’s value. That means tech superpowers are inching toward the 16 percent share of the S&P 500 they held at the peak of the tech bubble in March 2000.