While oil prices have been in an upward trend since late December of last year, tracking the stock markets pretty closely, it is now experiencing its biggest pullback since the rally began. The price of oil and the price of stocks are somewhat positively correlated, but to look at this relationship over the last 6 […]

Price to earnings is relied upon by a lot of people in deciding a stock’s outlook. The idea is to hope that we’ll get a reversion to the mean. This isn’t how stocks work though. We have a natural tendency to want to oversimplify things, and this certainly extends to how we view the movement […]

A lot of people use credit cards to earn rewards. As it turns out, a very large number of them don’t quite understand how these rewards work, especially with travel rewards. A great many people don’t take much interest in matters of personal finance, even though the effects of this lack of interest and knowledge […]

Precidian Investments filed an application with the SEC back in 2014 for a type of active ETF that does not require transparency. The SEC likes transparency. They finally gave in. To say that the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, prefers transparency in dealings between fund companies and investors would be an understatement. From the […]

In the latest poll of American Chief Financial Officers, while the overall pessimism regarding the economy is improving a bit, most still feel that a recession will be coming. When economic growth drops to around 2%, it is natural that a lot of people will be more concerned about things deteriorating further, especially if we […]

Some investors are becoming concerned about the fact that while major stock market indices are nearing all-time records, the volume of shares traded is going down. The significance of trading volume is one that a lot of technical analysts struggle to really understand, or at least gain a reasonable understanding of them. There are some […]

BlackRock’s earnings come in a little short of expectations, but the ETF market that they dominate is still red hot. The company is also seeing a real potential for further market gains. It is earnings season again, and when we are looking at the earnings of the world’s largest fund company, or money manager of […]

The stock markets may be up about 20% on average in 2019, but CVS is down that much this year so far, and down 34% since mid-November. There are reasons to be hopeful though. Investors love buying hot stocks, at least the armchair ones. There is a lot to be said about buying a stock […]

In spite of marked improvement in profit lately, U.S. Steel stock has had a rough time over the last year, losing 60%. With more concerns on the horizon, the outlook dims further. President Trump is well known for being willing to use any weapon at his disposal when negotiating, and his use of Section 232 […]

Actively managed mutual funds, where fund managers pick the stocks in the fund, may be in decline, but many fund managers are looking to do more with their voting rights. One of the perks of stock ownership is being able to decide matters related to the company’s operations, by way of voting your shares. Common […]