In the rough and tumble world of stocks that we’re in now, investors are presented with all sorts of lists of stocks to go with now. We roll out six for you to have a look at. Stocks have come a long way since their bottoming in late March, and there have been many good […]
One of the things that we know for sure in this financial crisis is that our economy is taking a big hit. Top ranked Wall Street economist Nancy Lazar discusses what may be ahead. Back in the early days of the coronavirus, we marveled at China’s locking down their country and wondered what the global […]
AQR Capital Management founder Cliff Asness wasn’t a big fan of value stocks, but he changed his mind last fall, feeling that they are now due. He is still waiting patiently. For a couple of magical weeks last September, value stocks were all the rage in the financial media when it was discovered that value […]
It often doesn’t take much to scare financial markets, and the way that they interpreted Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s comments on the prospects of negative interest rates proves this. The very idea of a central bank lending money to banks at negative interest rates is a very recent one, and one that isn’t even that […]
Pointing to several current issues that by themselves would normally weigh on stocks significantly, Goldman sees us giving back 18% of recent stock market gains over the next 3 months. The moment stocks started to rebound from the 35% nosedive caused by the coronavirus outbreak and its economic response, pundits started to line up to […]
The standard advice that investors get has them diluting their stock returns by balancing with bonds. We may want go the other way instead, to double down on our stock returns. Very few investors think all that much about what they invest in. They often will rely on professional advice, whether this be from a […]
AMD outperformed every other stock in the market last year by a huge margin. While this scares some people, especially in the face of a big pullback, AMD continues to shine. There is a strong belief among many investors that stocks that go up a lot are ripe for a correction, where they somehow see […]
Investors place huge sums of money into what are called value funds, hoping that these funds will outperform. It’s not enough to observe their failure, as we need to understand why. The concept of intrinsic value has always been one that has served to confuse a lot of investors. It’s not that the concept itself […]
While stocks do tend to move together a lot, and most investors seek to spread their money out among a wide variety of stocks, stock picking is becoming even more important. There is something about being selective about choosing investments that turns off the great majority of investors. While it is natural to be intimidated […]
Disney just got a check-up and they are even sicker than we thought. They missed their earnings expectations by a mile and have seen their profits decline by 93%. Disney is not a company that does well in seclusion, and many of the things that they make us think of, their theme parks and their […]