Payoneer Global Inc. PAYO

Payoneer has been on fire lately. In the past six months alone, the company’s stock price has rocketed 49.4%, reaching $7.13 per share. This performance may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.

Investors can certainly boost their returns by concentrating on stocks trading between $1 and $10. However, a disciplined approach is necessary because many of these businesses are speculative and lack the underlying fundamentals to support their prices.

Interest rates are higher again, inflation is stuck at 3.4%, and the Federal Reserve is openly comfortable keeping borrowing costs elevated for longer. That mix hurts some areas of the market and can support others, especially where cash balances and idle dollars matter. This article walks through three US brokerage and cash-sweep platform stocks exposed to this rate backdrop and explains how the current setup could help or hurt investors who own them. The three broker and platform stocks...