Good stock selection always involves seeking better than average opportunities. Oil stocks have been way below average for a long time, but is there a reason to be optimistic? It is no secret that the oil and gas sector has fallen out of favor, and it’s no surprise either considering how tied this sector is […]

The annual global central bank conference is scheduled for next week, and on Friday, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell will provide an update on where the Fed is leaning. With the next Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting a month away, with the next announcement not scheduled until September 18, there will be plenty of […]

The corn market got hit with a surprise on Monday as the USGA’s latest projections on the current crop season hit the street. Things aren’t as bad as the market thought. Between the middle of May and the middle of June of this year, corn prices really heated up due to all of the rain […]

2019 has been a year where both the stock and bond market have performed extremely well, but also one that worries about the economy have also gone on and on. Just looking at all the noise on the street, you would think that we were facing some difficult times with the economy which are set […]

People have been worrying about a recession for some time now, and they are really starting to worry now that the trade war is heating up. Is this a reason for concern? Recessions involve a period of 6 months or more of negative growth, and are indicative of a contracting economy, the opposite of our […]

U.S. President Donald Trump may have thought that he hit a good serve with his “small” new tariffs, but China returned his serve right into his face over the weekend. The trade war between the United States and China has heated up in a big way over the last few days, and the gloves may […]

We normally see interest rate cuts by the Fed as expansionary, and this only makes sense because this increases money supply. Could this end up decreasing it though? People usually think of economics as a science, and it is in a sense, although it would be more correct to call it both an art and […]

Stock markets that do well in the first half of a year are significantly more likely to do well in the second half. This should not surprise us, because these things do move in trends. We often look to past data to predict future trends, although how useful this ends up being will depend in […]

Botox is a popular treatment that uses a toxin to temporarily reduce wrinkles. AbbVie has decided to spend $63 billion on Botox to try to conceal their own wrinkles. AbbVie isn’t exactly a household name like the biggest pharmaceutical companies are, but the $32 billion that they made in revenue last year should tell you […]

While Fed Chairman Jerome Powell did appear to make his intentions pretty clear last week, the street somehow interpreted this to mean a rate cut will be coming very soon. For those who witnessed the statements by the Federal Reserve last week after the latest session of the meeting of their Open Market Committee, the […]