Bank of America Merrill Lynch is touting broken-down stock Exxon Mobil as their top pick for 2020 in the broken-down energy sector. This in itself doesn’t count for much though. Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch are excited about the prospects of Exxon Mobil stock over the next year, and have named the stock […]
Peloton’s IPO started out very slowly, spending the first month of its life underwater. November brought glad tidings and it suddenly was up about 50%. Then came the ad. Like most things, the social media revolution that has now gripped the world has its good and bad side. In prior times, people relied on word […]
Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne just downgraded Roku from the equivalent of a hold to a sell, and people are selling. It was not fundamentals that did this though. Fundamental analysts try to explain everything that happens to a stock with fundamental analysis, which seems natural enough given that this is how they approach understanding […]
It seems that some dividend funds can keep up with the market, but this does not mean that they are the best choice. We also need to make sure we factor in both risk and return. The debate about whether paying out higher dividends is good or bad for investors has been going on for […]
Energy analyst Joe McMonagle, former chief of staff at the Department of Energy, expects oil prices to rise over the next few months. Is this belief reliable enough to bet on? While both investing and trading both place bets on the direction of a security, this doesn’t mean that we can just put our money […]
2019 has been a good year for stocks so far, but it could have been quite a bit better if not for individual investors dragging it down. JP Morgan expects this to change in 2020. It isn’t that easy to predict where the stock market will be in a year from now, but that doesn’t […]
Some may think that an actively managed fund should at least beat the market, because this is what we pay them more for. 78% of them fail to even do this. It’s pretty common knowledge these days that about 8 out of 10 active funds fail to beat the market, in spite of all the […]
We’ve been speaking about how risky bonds are right now and to expect a significant pullback. Few bond investors really understand even why such things should matter to them. It takes very little understanding of bonds or markets to get why the run-up that we’ve seen with bonds over the last year should concern us, […]
When we see a company such as Kraft Heinz get hammered so much, we usually think that it’s the grocery business itself that is to blame. This has been all by their own hand. Given the sheer ugliness of Kraft Heinz’s stock over the last few years, and we might want to try to explain […]
Given how large the grass roots campaign against wealth inequality has grown, with two presidential candidates now in tow, if we’re going to improve this, we need to be careful. We see all sorts of numbers out there telling us just how concentrated wealth is among the elite, the top 1%, the top 0.1%, the […]