Burton Malkiel’s influence upon stock market thinking has been remarkable. He’s still promoting market randomness at age 87, and remains pretty bullish. Former Princeton economic professor Burton Malkiel has written a few books on investing, including the iconic A Random Walk Down Wall St: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing. He’s also the father of […]
While there remains some serious questions out there as to where stocks may be headed during the coming economic recovery, Amazon is going up even more now. Stock selection is a lot more important than the great majority of investors realize, and when the market becomes as embattled as it has been, the stakes go […]
There is a wide range of opinion about how bad the economic crisis that we are in will be and if and when we will ever recover. Quantitative analysis can shed real light on this. In the financial world, we normally think of quantitative analysis, or QA, as the study of the movement of asset […]
Stock market strategist Peter Schiff was once regarded as “Dr. Doom” for his pessimistic views of the housing market. He’s seeing the potential for doom once again. Calling someone “Dr. Doom” is only an insult if the doom that you see is that exaggerated. Equity strategist and stock market commentator Peter Schiff did seem to […]
While stocks in emerging markets such as India generally lag U.S. stocks considerably, they do have their time and place. This looks like it may be the time and place to act. Many investors don’t put much thought into their decisions, and will instead just follow popular investing ideas just because they are popular, with […]
The Federal Reserve normally confines its bond buying to U.S. treasuries, and its buying corporate bonds is a big departure. Buying corporate junk bonds is even more so. The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States normally only seeks to manage the economy by taking actions that either increase or decrease the country’s money supply, […]
We often look to history to try to see the future, and this especially applies to stocks. History can be helpful, but we want to make sure that we don’t try to replace the present. As we continue to move further and further away from the stock market low that we put in on March […]
Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks is known for his great timing, specializing in buying stocks when they are beat up. He believes that the market is in that situation now. Howard Marks may be far from a household name among investors, and his net worth of $2 billion pales in comparison to the big money out […]
Stocks usually go down after being downgraded by analysts, so GM stock gaining 9% after a downgrade seems very strange. These are not normal times though. It’s been no secret that the automotive sector has fallen upon hard times, at least with the stocks in the sector. It is not enough for a company to […]
Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners is sounding the alarm. We’re about to open Pandora’s economic box, and the worms we see may set off another round of panic. While stock markets have stabilized from the beating that they took over pandemic fears, and we’re even seeing the outbreak situation start to stabilize as well, not […]