Saudi Aramco is far from your average IPO, starting with it being only a very small piece of the overall company, with the Saudi government holding the rest. This is not a good bet. Having the opportunity to invest in the world’s largest oil company might appear to be pretty tempting, but this is far […]

Peloton’s IPO started out very slowly, spending the first month of its life underwater. November brought glad tidings and it suddenly was up about 50%. Then came the ad. Like most things, the social media revolution that has now gripped the world has its good and bad side. In prior times, people relied on word […]

The market always does its best to price in risks with its stocks. Boeing has had quite a bit of risk priced in already, but we may be underestimating the total cost of this fiasco. The two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft that fell from the sky and killed everyone on board has resulted in the […]

Should Elizabeth Warren become elected president, and should her proposed tax hikes get put into place, the estimates of a 20-30% loss in the stock market may be on the low side. It isn’t all that easy to predict what effect having Elizabeth Warren as president might do to the stock market, but by just […]

Broadridge Financial should be as stable of a company as they come. They make their money in both good and bad times. The company’s stock is far from stable though. Sometimes we may wonder if they send analysts out in the wilderness to live in isolation and send their reports about their neck of the […]

Over the din of all the moaning and groaning about low treasury yields, we told our readers to be wary of the higher risk represented by this. This is now starting to kick in. The price of a security, whether that be stocks, bonds, or anything else, is dependent upon future expectations. With a stock, […]

The backlash against salmon farming is just beginning. Not all salmon farms are dangerous though, and one Norwegian company has found a safer way to do this. One of the reasons why salmon or any seafood doesn’t come close to the volume of sales that chicken, pork, and beef do is that the supply for […]

It might be a little hard to understand how Beyond Meat could beat earnings and sales estimates by a lot and still see its stock price tank by 10%. It makes sense though. It often will take quite a while before a newly issued stock starts to show a profit, but Beyond Meat has been […]

Fresh off his remarks about how we need to raise the wealth tax much higher than proposed, Bernstein’s Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak leads us in a discussion about bears. There are surely many people who think that bear markets and recessions simply go together, where a bear market will mean a recession is going on and a […]

Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, is particularly well known for his market insights and predicted the 2008 crash. He sees some rough times ahead now. No matter how prosperous things are, there are always people preaching gloom and doom, and they are out there in force these days. Our current bull […]