Seeing the stock market sell off a couple of percentage points on average is usually not something to be too concerned about. Some selloffs tell a bigger story than others though. The numbers are in for the current week, and while we ended up right around where we started, with the way the week played […]

Apple had been one of the stocks that really suffered during the last major market selloff. It has come back a long way since, but seems poised to move up even more now. Apple stock took it on the chin more than most during the broad selloff that the fourth quarter of 2018 brought, going […]

The long-term trend up has been going on for a long time now. We do have some signs that this current cycle may be ending, and we may need to get out soon. Soon does not mean now. After a rather unusual session on Wednesday, where the stock market was presented with a very market […]

Low Yields on U.S. treasuries that are projected to extend into the future have more investors eyeing dividend stocks. This can be a fine thought if you know what you’re getting into. We can learn quite a bit about the future prospects of the economy by looking at the treasury yield curve, which compares yields […]

Investors prefer a situation where the Fed does not see a need to act over when they act to cool the economy. They chose to stand aside again, and some found this a little scary. 2018 wasn’t such a great year for the stock market, and a lot of this had to do with the […]

People ask what technical analysis has to say with the current stock market conditions. It doesn’t decide things ahead of time, and the most it can honestly tell us is so far so good. We could say that we are at a turning point with today’s stock markets. Which direction we are heading from here […]

To the untrained eye, seeing both our actual and projected GDP growth rates decline may seem pretty bearish. These numbers may actually be in the sweet spot though. It’s no secret that we have seen an economic slowdown of late, at least if we look at this picture from a short-term perspective, such as month […]

Tesla has been in the car business for 15 years, now, and has lost money in all 15 years. Investors are starting to ask themselves when this will all end, but it’s probably not now. It might seem odd that Tesla has three of its models designated by a letter, the S, X, and now […]

How much should investors care about the fact that so many CEOs are preparing their companies for a recession? This really should not be that important to long-term investors. One of the big things that market observers pay quite a bit of attention to is the comments that corporate leaders share with the public. This, […]

The dot.com bubble bursting in 2000 is legendary, where investors in their exuberance drove up prices to the sky, then the sky fell. Comparisons are now being made to today. Richard Bernstein wasn’t just around to experience what is known as the dot.com bubble bursting in 2000, he actually called it. This actually did not […]