In spite of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft having an impact upon the airline industry, as you don’t just pluck so many planes from the grid and not see consequences, this event wasn’t one that really has affected Boeing’s business all that much. You wouldn’t know that though from seeing the way that […]
Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma is known as one of the brightest minds in the investment industry, with both a keen eye and a good understanding of how markets work. Chief global strategist Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley spends a lot of time studying emerging markets and the market in general, and from reading and listening […]
A lot of people are concerned with the effects of climate change, and although this process may seem to be so gradual as to not affect investing, Jeremy Grantham doesn’t think so. Jeremy Grantham, now in his eighties, has been at this game for a long time, and created one of the world’s first index […]
Stocks of U.S. automakers GM and Ford have been far less than exciting anyway, but declining sales numbers are expected to make them even less exciting in 2019. The forecast for U.S. auto sales for 2019 are in. Edmunds projects total unit sales of 16.7 million this year, down from 17.3 in 2018. Sales have […]
After disappointing the analysts a couple of weeks ago with their quarterly earnings call, Nike has laced on their shoes again and appears ready to resume its forward progress. Nike got its start all the way back in 1964, when University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman got together to […]
Bear markets certainly scare a lot of investors, and given that so many are predicting one soon, this may evoke feelings of doom. We might want to get excited instead. In spite of all the prognostications of the end of our long bull market with stocks, the stock market continues its trek upward at the […]
Many investors jump on financial stocks with the intention of taking advantage of their better dividends. This is just one aspect of them, and not even the biggest one. Buying common stock of financial companies is a popular way for investors on the more conservative side to seek to achieve their investing objectives. This isn’t […]
Lyft finally got its IPO off the ground last Friday, but it’s been sputtering since. It’s not so much that it has dropped almost 20% in 3 trading days, it’s more about when the bleeding will stop. IPOs get issued with a lot of hope and promise, and investors are usually very eager to get […]
The dropping yield of 10-year treasury bills have really been in the news lately, because of an inversion. How much should we even be concerned about 10-year treasuries? There are a number of reasons why the price and yield of treasuries such as the 10-year differ, and it’s not all just about people predicting rough […]
A lot of people are looking at bond yields as an early warning for a coming recession. What we should be looking at is the credit market, as this isn’t a correlation, it’s the cause. If we’re worried about a recession, looking at the last one we had, the Great one, can be pretty instructive […]