The number of new unemployment claims in the U.S. blew up to 3.28 million, but we all knew that this was coming. This included the stock market which continued upward. It might not seem to make much sense that we could get the worst jobless claim report in history and see the stock market rally […]
Inflation eats away at all assets, where it gets deducted off the top from our assets. Inflation going up is a concern to many, but the best way to beat it is to just beat it. Inflation risk in principle applies to all investors, although it is more of a concern to those who shoot […]
While it is too soon to say that the worst is over with the recent panic in the stock market, we’re seeing real signs that the buyers may be ready to really jump in. As bad as the fear has been in the markets over the last 5 weeks, and as out of proportion as […]
Technical analysts at least look at what really matters when looking at stock prices, the actual prices. Even when we’re looking at the right thing, it’s important to use our heads. Among the various ways that we can study the movement of stock prices, studying the actual price trends makes the most sense by far, […]
Wednesday’s trading saw stocks, treasuries, corporate bonds, gold, and oil all get hammered. The only game in town right now is to ride with the bears, not the bulls. No matter how much something has gone down or how quickly it is going down, there has to be someone that holds long positions in it. […]
Among those with very little understanding of how to invest, the errors that analysts make can escape them. The mistakes they are making these days are much more glaring. Scott Black is nothing if not experienced. He founded Delphi Management back in 1980 and has been at the helm as president ever since. His firm […]
Quantitative analysts, called quants, employ mathematical and statistical models to understand things. Two of them are now stepping up to provide investors with their insights. Quantitative analysis is used in many fields to seek to understand various processes by seeking to quantify data and provide models. They are particularly widely used in the world of […]
Up until this week, the Dow has never lost 1200 points in a single day. We’ve done this three times this week, including hitting the new record on Thursday where we lost 10%. We use a 20% decline to define a bear market, although this is just an arbitrary number and we could have chosen […]
Individual investors have been challenged plenty by the current stock crisis, and this has been all the more painful for mutual fund managers, even though they may not feel it. The current correction in stocks that we’ve been under over the last three weeks have been pretty painful for everyone who remained on the long […]
As mired as stock markets are in uncertainty during these times, and as much as they have fallen, things could be a whole lot worse if not for all the buying of these dips. With stocks moving so much off of the all-time highs we were at not so long ago, due to the fears […]