Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma is known as one of the brightest minds in the investment industry, with both a keen eye and a good understanding of how markets work. Chief global strategist Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley spends a lot of time studying emerging markets and the market in general, and from reading and listening […]

Lyft finally got its IPO off the ground last Friday, but it’s been sputtering since. It’s not so much that it has dropped almost 20% in 3 trading days, it’s more about when the bleeding will stop. IPOs get issued with a lot of hope and promise, and investors are usually very eager to get […]

In spite of all the concerns and even negativity out there, and an expectation that stock markets and the economy are about to make a big turn south, the beat just goes on. There are a lot of people out there who are puzzled by the way that stock markets have performed in 2019 so […]

In spite of Boeing’s recent troubles with one of their aircraft, and their stock plummeting as a result, there are some at least who think that their stock looks good down here. Bottom hunting can be a risky business, which has us trading against the bigger trend in the hopes that it may be over. […]

There have been a number of things that have tried to put an end to our now three -month long bull market, but so far, the buying pressure has been up to the task. Tuesday’s trading wasn’t all that terribly exciting in itself, but in the face of the recent sell-off blamed on an inversion […]

Seeing the stock market sell off a couple of percentage points on average is usually not something to be too concerned about. Some selloffs tell a bigger story than others though. The numbers are in for the current week, and while we ended up right around where we started, with the way the week played […]

Investors prefer a situation where the Fed does not see a need to act over when they act to cool the economy. They chose to stand aside again, and some found this a little scary. 2018 wasn’t such a great year for the stock market, and a lot of this had to do with the […]

The dot.com bubble bursting in 2000 is legendary, where investors in their exuberance drove up prices to the sky, then the sky fell. Comparisons are now being made to today. Richard Bernstein wasn’t just around to experience what is known as the dot.com bubble bursting in 2000, he actually called it. This actually did not […]

New York City has a lot of paper out there, so the thought of it going bankrupt is particularly troubling. We need to look at how big this threat may actually be. To hear the New York Post tell it, “New York City is edging toward financial disaster.” This was exactly the headline of a […]

The February nonfarm payroll report numbers were released Friday morning, and they disappointed the analysts. The market didn’t agree and put in a strong rally in response. You can’t just go by how a report compares to the estimates of analysts, and February’s jobs report is a good example of this. Following a tremendous amount […]