Cott Corporation is Barrons stock pick this week, and we’re told their stock looks ready to pop. The pop may not be that significant, but it could foam up a little from here. The Cott Corporation has been making beverages for almost a century now, founded in 1923 by Solomon Cott and his son Harry. […]

When such a large food company as Kraft Heinz provides us with such a brutal quarterly report, we need to look deeper into what direction the industry may be taking. While Kraft Heinz’s particularly gloomy earnings results, which include a $15 billion write down to accommodate the declining value of several of its brands, is […]

Successful fund manager Chris Mack shares with us some of the things that has led to his fund outperforming the competition. While we may profit from such tips, they play a different game. Being a successful fund manager is a pretty challenging affair, as managing a huge amount of money and managing to beat what […]

You can buy and sell a lot of things online these days, pretty much anything, but you can’t sell your house online, right? Zillow has allowed people to do this right now if they wish. When a company releases their quarterly earnings results, this often serves as a pivot point where we can get a […]

We will be seeing a huge amount of corporate debt maturing soon, with $3.3 trillion of it coming due over the next 5 years. How much should we worry about all of this? Companies obtain financing for their businesses through one of two ways, they can either attract investment through issuing shares or they may […]

Vanguard started out in 1975 with a novel idea of managing mutual funds. This idea has really caught on over the years and has propelled Vanguard to the top of the heap. The world of mutual funds has historically been a battle between those who can build the best portfolios and outperform the broader market […]

The number of rate increases expected by the Federal Reserve in 2019 has dropped from two to one lately, and we’re not seeing anything in the CPI to suggest one is needed now. While we entered 2019 with the expectation that the Federal Reserve may have two more rate increases in store for us in […]

Trump’s been using his demand for a $5.7 billion wall to hold up the current spending bill. We’ll soon see if a $1.4 billion fence instead will appease him enough to back off. With the prospects of another protracted government shutdown looming, congressional negotiators have been working hard behind the scenes to put together a […]

Hedge fund manager Shawn Matthews holds a cautious stance right now, fears that won’t be overcome by a successful U.S./China trade deal, this will in fact worsen them for him. There has been much talk of late about how at least an improvement in the trade battle between the United States and China that lingers […]

Whether the current bull market is over is on the minds of everyone these days. Some believe that the fun is over, and that this current upward move is a false one, a bull trap. Many investors spent much of 2018 wondering whether the current bull market will soon come to an end, and toward […]