Company calls with analysts involve more than just comparing notes with them with earnings. It’s not hard to see what the market thinks about these calls, just watch the price. Many investors and analysts pay a lot of attention to a company’s quarterly results, although the opportunity for a company to share its outlook for […]

On Friday, the Dow worked hard all day to overcome the hole they were put in and got it back. Faced with another hole Monday, the Dow got it back again, and just kept going. Last week’s poor market index performance had stock market observers a little on edge, and even Friday’s surge during normal […]

The word out there is that U.S. stock markets are struggling because they are waiting for a trade deal. The real reasons are a strengthening dollar and increasing demand for bonds. There is a multitude of things that impact the movement of stock markets, although the currency market isn’t usually one that comes to mind […]

With the April 15 deadline drawing nearer, 30 million people are expected to owe money to the IRS this year. The time to start thinking about how you will make that payment is now. In the old days, when the only way to file your taxes was by mailing in completed paper documents, people would […]

PayPal has seen its stock rise 130% over the last 2 years, and this has caused its price to earnings ratio to really rise. Some analysts are worried, but investors don’t seem to care. PayPal stock has performed strongly over the last couple of years, moving from $42.55 back in April 2017 to close at […]

With so many major stories in the news that could potentially affect stock markets, investors are showing at least a little reluctance to propel our market surge further. It’s not that stock markets can’t manage uncertainty, and managing uncertainty is actually their fundamental function, to take all the incomplete knowledge that we have about the […]

Home ownership is considered to be a significant part of the American dream, but more and more of us are being forced to give it up, even those who make a lot of money. Traditionally, lower income people have always represented the biggest percentage of renters, for a number of good reasons. While owning your […]

We should always be striving to get the best deal out of our money that we can. Sometimes this involves taking on more risk, but paying off debt is always risk-free. For whatever reasons, many of us approach our savings and our debts separately, and often too separately. There are some situations where we may […]

Since the truce was reached on the government shutdown, the hope has been that we’d get this resolved by the deadline. We did, but a state of emergency came with it. If anyone still doubted President Donald Trump’s resolve to build his wall along the Mexican border, his actions today should serve to shed more […]

A terrible December had people particularly looking toward technology stocks and the Nasdaq as indicating troubled times. We’ve now fully recaptured those losses. Throughout the market recovery from a bad finish in 2018, seeing things dip by around 20% at its worst and then put in a move upward at Christmas time, we have been […]