With the COVID-19 pandemic still hanging around, and with the mad scramble for a vaccine, this may seem like a great time to be invested in biotechs. Be careful. We hear all the time that the COVID-19 pandemic has been the worst in 100 years, since the Spanish flu days. Perhaps they have never heard […]
Participation in the stock market used to be limited to investors of real means. Technology has changed all that, and things just got a whole lot more accessible lately. Technology has dramatically changed the way we live, and among the many changes that this has brought, greater and more efficient access to stocks is right […]
If there were a Hall of Shame for stock analysts, maintaining Tesla as a sell while it rocketed up the charts would be more than worthy. We try not to be too hard on stock analysts, and understand that given that few of them have much of a clue about stocks, they are going to […]
Utility stocks had a pretty good year in 2019, where they actually kept up with the market. 2020 hasn’t been very kind, but Goldman Sachs wants us to buck the current trend. Even though the utility sector isn’t really that competitive overall, we always look to view each situation according to its current merits, and […]
In the midst of a pandemic, with all stocks getting bashed, betting on health care stocks coming back was an easy call. Figuring out where they go from here isn’t so easy. During the good times, betting on stocks that are doing well and are in sectors that are doing well is actually a pretty […]
All it takes to attract the interest of a lot of older investors is to use the word income with an investment. This is a foolish bias that can cost them though. The strategy of selling covered calls is widely promoted, especially to older investors who find the fact that this is framed as a […]
Among the stocks that have shrugged off the economic crisis and have prospered though it, nothing compares to the power of online retailers right now, which are red hot. There’s nothing like a recession to depress stock prices, at least normal recessions anyway. 2020’s version, a beast by any measure, has played out a little […]
With the November election fast approaching, and so much hanging in the balance for the stock market and the economy, the time to start thinking about this is now. We’ve been speaking of the potential impact of the November election in the United States for quite some time now, especially lately as the potential storm […]
We might think that given how much more stuff that people are ordering online now, the USPS would be enjoying a bountiful harvest. They are instead on life support. The mega recession of 2020 has been an unusual one, where we usually see such a thing sink all boats in the aftermath of a slowing […]
It seems that every time Apple’s stock price outperforms Wamsi Mohan’s’ view of the company’s near-term performance, he sees it as no longer a buy. In spite of Apple’s rising to becoming the world’s most valuable stock, where it has grown over 95,000% in the last 22 years, the road there has been paved with […]