It’s Climate Week, so it’s no surprise that some of the talk has turned to what some people call socially responsible investing. What is socially responsible investing anyway? With all the talk about socially responsible investing, we could stand to examine what this even means and how well what is supposed to be socially responsible […]

Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman recently quipped on Thursday in an interview on CNBC that “they won’t open the stock market if Elizabeth Warren is the next president.” To say that Elizabeth Warren as president would be Wall Street’s worst nightmare may not be an exaggeration at all. This is a scenario that is unthinkable as […]

There’s actually an article out there in Barron’s that claims that the Fed did not loosen monetary policy with this latest rate cut. This view actually merits a little more discussion. The financial world is full of commentators who share their take on things. Keeping people abreast of what is going on in the financial […]

Hedge fund advisor Avi Tiomkin sees us heading for some real gloom and doom due to the economy contracting and deflationary trends unless we do something really drastic. There are always a variety of opinions out there about the economy. While some may be much more well informed than others, it is important that we […]

President Trump’s tweet about trade talks set to resume between the U.S. and China might have been wishful thinking, but this particular wish has now been granted. There has been a lot of back and forth in the stock markets over the last month as it fended off concerns about the economy possibly weakening too […]

There are various strategies that we can use to manage a stock market plunge. One of these are playing the VIX, and using options is one way to do this. Does this make sense now? The volatility index is a tool that a lot of people use to measure market sentiment trends in the next […]

The auto sector has looked more like a junkyard than a showroom over the past few years. Baird analyst David Leiker believes he has found a couple of diamonds in the rough. Some stocks perform better than others, and given that stocks are grouped into sectors, some sectors perform better than others do. The auto […]

As more and more shots get fired in the trade war between the U.S. and China, many are now wondering just how bad this might become if things just keep getting worse. The stakes just keep getting bigger and bigger in the trade war between the United States and China. The goal presumably is to […]

Bank stocks and utility stocks do have some things in common, such as high earnings and good dividends. The two are very distinct in some very important ways though. There are actually quite a few investors out there who call themselves conservative, and at least think that they are, who invest in bank stocks for […]

Some IPOs are better than others. Uber’s IPO is definitely in the less exciting category, but things could have gone a lot worse so far. Uber is holding up pretty well but for how long? Uber stock hit the market as a very anticipated IPO back on May 10, opening at $42 a share. It’s […]