Stephen Tusa of JPMorgan is regarded as the most prominent analyst of GE stock. While this stock has performed fabulously lately, Tusa has changed his outlook. The market does pay attention to analysts, some more than others, and JPMorgan’s Stephen Tusa is one of those who people do watch pretty closely. Tusa had been bullish […]
As the bull market celebrates its 10th anniversary, and the surge of 2019 continuing on, many believe that things should come to an end soon, but this could go on for a while yet. Bull markets don’t usually last as long as this current one has. 10 years is a pretty long time for one […]
Mutual funds on the whole have been actually pulling out of the stock market, with net outflows totaling almost $40 billion year-to-date. Why are we still going up then? One of the things that people pay attention to is how much money mutual funds contribute or take out of the stock market on a net […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Given all the talk and even quite a bit of concern about the threat of another bear market showing its ugly face soon, it pays to brush up on our skills on how to track a bear. What goes up must come down isn’t really true about the stock market, but we can at least […]