How can we explain the news looking so good and the market performing so poorly? The momentum of price movements themselves can and do move markets a lot as well. Monday started out so promising. The Dow was up 175 points at the open, basking in the further promise of a successful trade deal between […]
When such a large food company as Kraft Heinz provides us with such a brutal quarterly report, we need to look deeper into what direction the industry may be taking. While Kraft Heinz’s particularly gloomy earnings results, which include a $15 billion write down to accommodate the declining value of several of its brands, is […]
In today’s relatively uncertain economic environment, people are lining up on each side of the debate on where we’re headed next. There’s good evidence though that it is upward. The slowdown of the economy that we are facing has caused a lot of disagreement among market observers as to what 2019 may end up looking […]
PayPal has seen its stock rise 130% over the last 2 years, and this has caused its price to earnings ratio to really rise. Some analysts are worried, but investors don’t seem to care. PayPal stock has performed strongly over the last couple of years, moving from $42.55 back in April 2017 to close at […]
Kraft Heinz has taken such a pounding that some people wondered whether Warren Buffett would seek to reduce or eliminate his position. Warren doesn’t give up this easily. More than a few investors follow investing icon Warren Buffett, especially given that he has made enough good investments to propel him to a personal net worth […]
Successful fund manager Chris Mack shares with us some of the things that has led to his fund outperforming the competition. While we may profit from such tips, they play a different game. Being a successful fund manager is a pretty challenging affair, as managing a huge amount of money and managing to beat what […]
Human behavior does affect the price of stocks in a meaningful way, as evidenced by the work of Richard Thaler, who even has a fund to show this work in real life. There is a view out there that financial markets are perfectly efficient, based upon two major principles that simply do not hold true […]
A billion dollars sure isn’t what it used to be, and the difference is more than just how money gets devalued by inflation. A billion in stock is nothing like a billion in cash. 2018 was not a banner year for stocks by any means, even though U.S. stock markets didn’t really have all that […]
With so many major stories in the news that could potentially affect stock markets, investors are showing at least a little reluctance to propel our market surge further. It’s not that stock markets can’t manage uncertainty, and managing uncertainty is actually their fundamental function, to take all the incomplete knowledge that we have about the […]
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are meeting once again to discuss de-escalating the conflict between their two countries. Many do not expect much progress but a little is enough. Given the longstanding war between the United States and its allies, which is fast approaching its 70th year, and the almost complete lack of progress on […]