When we see a company such as Kraft Heinz get hammered so much, we usually think that it’s the grocery business itself that is to blame. This has been all by their own hand. Given the sheer ugliness of Kraft Heinz’s stock over the last few years, and we might want to try to explain […]

Canopy Growth, the world’s largest legal marajuana producing company, has been in freefall since firing their CEO earlier this year. The freefall continues to accelerate. Canadian marajuana producer Canopy Growth remains in serious trouble, and one look at their chart says it all. Just seeing a stock drop from around $50 last April to barely […]

People have been discussing all year whether or not investors should pull back or even get out of stocks. This dialogue is picking up again, and this is at least worth thinking on. We have to speculate as to why any investor who is not close to needing to cash in would want to do […]

Under Armour has already been an embattled stock, falling from the over $100 it traded at 4 years ago to hanging around the $20 area since the start of 2017. Things just got worse. When your company is under investigation by the Justice Department for fraudulent accounting practices, and it also has had some pretty […]

Just about everyone was expecting a third quarter point cut in the Fed funds rate during Wednesday’s announcement, but we also got some reassurance of this as well. The Federal Reserve has been known to overreact at times sometimes on the side of being cautious about not wanting to do too much to stimulate the […]

Most companies are coming in ahead of estimates for third quarter earnings, which is due in part to particularly understated predictions. Amazon’s wasn’t set low enough. When your company is worth 888 billion, a single percentage point move in your stock adds up to 8.8 billion. Amazon dropped 8.75 of these when it’s third quarter […]

Energy stock ConocoPhillips is being touted as a buy right now by JPMorgan because it has sold off so much this year. Whether the selling has stopped is what we need to decide. You hear stocks being described as “cheap” quite often, although any time a stock loses value it can be called that. It’s […]

After several years of struggle, Target stock is up 69% year-to-date and still rising. Losing their head of merchandising may concern some, but without good reason. The world of retail has become a much more challenging one to succeed in lately, and in particular, since Walmart and Amazon have come to dominate it. The success […]

There is a fair bit of uncertainty surrounding the potential end of the current bull market with stocks. Citibank is stepping up to reassure investors that the outlook remains good. We should never just take someone at their word when it comes to managing our finances. There are always voices out there that continually looking […]

Trading commissions have been going down ever since discount brokerages first appeared on the scene. Charles Schwab has now gone all in with zero commissions. At one time, not that long ago, placing orders for stocks was an expensive affair indeed. Brokers didn’t call themselves full-service brokerages back then because all brokers were full-service. Trading […]