We are often told by people looking to advise us on managing our stock positions to look to enter on a pullback. We need to understand the rationale before we decide to leap. Anytime markets are moving up, which they certainly are now with the right stocks anyway, it’s common that people who are paid […]
With the U.S. economy still mired in a huge recession, and the economic recovery in Europe further along, this has some people concluding European stocks should be added. You would think that people who are paid for their expertise in advising on stocks would at least pay a little more attention. These are folks that, […]
The Dow Jones Industrial Average needs all the help in its losing battle to keep up with the other 2 major stock indexes. Things are about to get even more challenging. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, commonly known as just the Dow, is the grandfather of major stock indexes, going all the way back to […]
Treasuries are rallying a bit after we got to see what the GDP losses were last quarter in black and white. The idea that this represents investors fleeing to safer assets is amusing. Yesterday’s article contrasted the fear that people feel about the stock market versus the actual fear that may be going on in […]
The numbers are in for U.S. second quarter GDP, and it dropping 32.9% on an annualized basis is the scariest one ever. The stock market hasn’t been scared though. Fear has played a bigger than normal role in 2020, whether that be the massive amount that COVID-19 produced, the panic that hit the stock market […]
Bad strategies die a slow death in the investment world, but they do eventually decay. The idea that book value bargains are a good idea isn’t quite dead yet it seems. Benjamin Graham is considered to be the father of value investing, a process of looking for bargains with stocks that have fallen out of […]
More and more people are “protesting” against the disproportionate growth of the top 5 stocks in the S&P 500. Amid a sea of nonsense, there’s a valid concern buried within. It’s not so difficult to understand how publicly traded financial assets work, and all we have to do is describe them in the way that […]
State Street’s SPDR sector ETFs were the first to allow investors to invest in S&P 500 stocks by sector, and still are the most popular. Vanguard is right on their tail now though. Many investors take a diversified approach to their stock investments, where they seek a wide exposure to different types of stocks in […]
2020 has been a year of extremes, between the pandemic, the lockdown, and the financial response. Joyce Chang of J.P. Morgan looks to prepare us for what’s coming next. There are all sorts of types of analysts in the financial world, and while most specialize in various types of investments, there are others which we […]
The huge bear market that hit stocks in 2000 is generally referred to as the tech bubble bursting, and some people are now in fear of the sky falling now in a similar fashion. With all the talk out there these days about the stock market allegedly moving toward another possible tech bubble bursting, we […]