Economist David Rosenberg has been seeing weakness in the economy and has been bearish on stocks for several years now. Being wrong over and over doesn’t bother him. David Rosenberg considers himself a contrarian, which in itself isn’t necessary a bad thing and can often be a good thing, depending on what side of right […]
Stock markets came down with the coronavirus last month and quickly recovered once the fever broke. New fears have hit the market, and we’re left wondering once again. There has only been one day in history that the Dow lost more than 1000 points, back on February 6, 2018. That day was one for the […]
Once the darling of the market, producing consistent gains twice that of stocks for 30 years, managed futures funds have fallen upon hard times. They still might have their place. Managed futures funds seem like such a great idea on paper. The potential return with futures trading dwarfs what anyone could make with stocks, and […]
There are quite a few people out there who are intimidated and disenchanted with all the computer trading that goes on these days, but these fears are not justified at all. There is a myth out there that still prevails that has us human traders and investors pitted against an army of computers, all of […]
The coronavirus scare and gold are made for each other. The soft commodities have taken a hit, but several commodities advisors see this as a good opportunity. It didn’t really take much know-how for us to recommend going long gold when the coronavirus that still grips the financial world broke out not so long ago. […]
Former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew has a bone to pick with the Trump administration, believing that they are overusing, abusing and undermining U.S. economic power. In the world of politics, it’s all too easy to be a critic, as just being disgruntled is more than enough, whether or not your criticisms have any actual merit. […]
It’s not easy to find an actively managed fund that does what it is supposed to, which is to provide above average and not below average returns. MFS is doing its best. It is actually pretty amazing how so many poor performing mutual funds there are out there, and how people continue to invest in […]
The way that initial public offerings have been traditionally placed in the market harkens back to bygone days where paper was king. We’re finally looking to modernize this process. One of the real obstacles for companies going public is the long and expensive process of getting a stock from the private side to offering their […]
It’s always interesting to hear from the bear camp during a bull run. Morgan Stanley strategist Andrew Sheets thinks the stock “cycle” is nearing an end, and tells us why. There’s no shortage of pretzel logic in the investment world, and sadly, this is actually the standard fare in these professions. It takes quite a […]
When they look at how much money retail investors are pouring into both stock and bond funds right now, Bank of America is worried that we might be creating a bubble with both. We use the word bubble to describe situations where prices of things rise so much that they end up collapsing under their […]