 Well, this is it the top performing stock of 2021 on the Nasdaq if you haven't heard of lucid group You will because they aim to be a major player in the luxury electric car market And they've sold out their first offering the stock market regarding lucid with a startling 200% gain in 2021 Welcome back each week we devote time to exploring stock opportunities for 2022 and to help us today We're joined by Melissa Armo. She's CEO and founder of the stocks whoosh We're also joined by our friend business and market analyst Seth Denson also a newsmax column columnist Thanks for being here. Let's start by getting a sense of where stocks are right now Is this even a time to be thinking about moving money into investments? Melissa, I'm going to start with you and also talk about your first pick Kroger Now the market has started out this year 2022 a little bit bearish It we've fallen off the first week of the year and that's not really a great sign It doesn't mean the market is going to break trend in 2022. It does mean, however People should be aware we could have a volatile year whereas 2020 after the COVID low We rallied and then we rallied all of 2021 So it was really easy to make money if you were long stocks even stocks that really were in Endowed trends in 2021 you could have gone long and made money this year You better know what you're doing if you want to put money into the market Well and Kroger is a recession proof stock because everybody's buying groceries whether there's a recession or not So that's probably a great pick. Seth. Let's go to you crisper. That's your pick. Give us a little background on that Well a couple things obviously anything related to healthcare is near and dear to my heart But specifically with this company we're talking about genetic editing and their capabilities If you look at the stock and what it was a year goes $200 today It's around the $70 mark and most people will go. Oh, it's going down But they've got new technology specifically around sickle cell treatment and I think that could be really powerful I think the stock is is ready to go up And I think that could serve also their technology as a pipeline for potential oncology treatment So I think this is a good buy. I think there's some good opportunity there. Okay. That's great. What a great choice Uh melissa tesla and walmart. What do you have about those? Well, walmart I like because we've been in an inflationary period and you can buy a lot of things at low cost At walmart also, they still have the brick and mortar stores and people love to go in and you can pretty much get Anything that you want and anything that you need at walmart they even sell food now So I think people are going to be looking for bargains and discounts and the stock actually rallied friday when the market was falling So this stock is strong. I could look for it to continue higher and look for it to probably have good earnings The first quarter 2022 which is in a few weeks and tesla. Well, everyone loves tesla I mean tesla has been a beast Just when you think tesla can't go any higher it does it went over 1000 in 2021 I wouldn't even put it past the stock at some point getting to 2000 if it doesn't split before there Elon musk wants to take on the entire world and there's nothing stopping that stock and nothing stopping that company in my opinion Well, everybody's buying into it. Seth. You've got two picks. You've got visa and you've got general motors. Do you want to make a comment on those? Yeah, listen, I agree with Melissa on tesla gm's a tenth of the overall value But I think it's poised and I'll tell you a lot of analysts have pulled back from gm But I think as the market starts to reopen we get this chip shortage under control They're not they've announced their new electric silvarado. I think that they you know them having a minority share in gmak from a financial perspective I think there's a lot of things well and gm used to pay a dividend I'm a big fan of stocks to do that. I always say you don't own an asset until you sell it or you get a dividend from it I think it's poised to do well in the new year. The other one visa. Hey, it's everywhere you want to be and it's everywhere I want to be they've processed over 13 trillion in transactions And there there's not competition in that space They are the the leader and if crypto starts taking off they're aligning themselves to be in line with crypto So I really like what they have potential to do in the new year in our last few seconds One of my picks was g e do you think the breakup is going to increase value to both of you? Will there be a great breakup value or not? Melissa ladies first Go ahead. Well if the market if the market continues to rally then that will rally as well But again, if we have a big sell off in the market, that's going to go in a downward direction So I would wait on that wait until after the earnings to buy that Just a couple moments. Go ahead seth. Yeah, I really like this move from g e If you look at what their stock has done over the last decade, it was time to do a shake up This is a good one breaking off those components and letting them try to fly on their own I think it's a good move. I'm watching this in 2022 as well Seth melissa, thanks for your picks for 2022 and stick around because after this 32nd break We'll be right back with big predictions for the year ahead The former president of the united states And you know, I wouldn't say fox has been exactly perfect fox has been a big difference of fox between Now and what it was four years ago as you know But we have others that come along and they're doing well and Newsmax has been really good and you know Others are coming along and people are seeing that they're watching these conservative networks President trump is right. That's why millions of americans are tuning into newsmax for the real news they can trust Prediction time. What are going to be the big financial market stock stories of 2022? With me again to offer up their thoughts are melissa armoe and seth densin melissa Let's start with you inflation will get worse. Not better. Give me your thoughts on that I definitely think inflation is going to increase and and i'm disagreeing with uh Fed chair gerome powell because he said he thought in december that in 12 months from now We'd be back to normal levels of inflation. He's trying to curb that by raising interest rates They're going to raise rates this year But that's going to put more of the strain on people's pocketbooks in my opinion And the problem with inflation really is not necessarily tied to rates It's tied to the fact that we have a labor shortage There's too many job openings people are not at work And so of course we can't produce the goods and services and get them out around the country fast enough So that is why costs are increasing I think it's going to get much much worse before it gets better not just for food But for things like gas as well Well inflation impacts everybody significantly seth you mentioned black swan events that aren't priced into the market Give us a couple of examples of what you mean by that Yeah, I really think that there's so much potential out there for some geopolitical unrest. You've got 150 000 troops Uh that russia's put right off of ukraine whether or not they invade I don't know but I do think they're going to use that as leverage regardless against the global economy I think it's going to impact stocks. You have china and taiwan. You have turkey and the eu Things are just prime. Listen, my faith teaches me that we should fear god Well, guess what the global economy understands you should fear america that fear isn't there anymore And I think there's a lot of big power players out there that are ready to leverage that this year And i'm worried about what that might do to the markets if they act on it Well, those are great comments and that gives our investors a lot to think about when they make their own investing decisions Well, we've reached the end of our first program We hope you've enjoyed it and look forward to our next edition This is a wall street world. I'm scott carter. See you soon