Diversification is a popular tool at any time, but as investors seek to protect themselves even more now due to the uncertainty of the stock market, they need to also weigh the costs. With economic projections stabilizing more, and remaining quite favorable for the foreseeable future, some people are still going to worry about these […]
Whenever a type of stock or stock investing strategy has been running cold, people expect a comeback. Talk is picking up about small cap stocks coming back soon. There is an overall rationale in the stock market that believes that underperformance in itself will beget higher performance, and that underperformance is somehow a condition that […]
Fund Manager Paul Hogan is said to beat 99% of his peers that he shares a part of the investment forest with. This can allow us to fail but still be able to brag about the failure. You would think that the world of mutual funds would be set up so that we may compare […]
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is touting broken-down stock Exxon Mobil as their top pick for 2020 in the broken-down energy sector. This in itself doesn’t count for much though. Analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch are excited about the prospects of Exxon Mobil stock over the next year, and have named the stock […]
Peloton’s IPO started out very slowly, spending the first month of its life underwater. November brought glad tidings and it suddenly was up about 50%. Then came the ad. Like most things, the social media revolution that has now gripped the world has its good and bad side. In prior times, people relied on word […]
Morgan Stanley analyst Benjamin Swinburne just downgraded Roku from the equivalent of a hold to a sell, and people are selling. It was not fundamentals that did this though. Fundamental analysts try to explain everything that happens to a stock with fundamental analysis, which seems natural enough given that this is how they approach understanding […]
It seems that some dividend funds can keep up with the market, but this does not mean that they are the best choice. We also need to make sure we factor in both risk and return. The debate about whether paying out higher dividends is good or bad for investors has been going on for […]
Bitcoin is at least becoming more mainstream, with big institutions such as ICE and Fidelity coming on board. Our understanding of Bitcoin still has a long way to go though. The fact that Bitcoin trading has started to mature a little, with it now being able to be traded on the futures market for instance, […]
Energy analyst Joe McMonagle, former chief of staff at the Department of Energy, expects oil prices to rise over the next few months. Is this belief reliable enough to bet on? While both investing and trading both place bets on the direction of a security, this doesn’t mean that we can just put our money […]
2019 has been a good year for stocks so far, but it could have been quite a bit better if not for individual investors dragging it down. JP Morgan expects this to change in 2020. It isn’t that easy to predict where the stock market will be in a year from now, but that doesn’t […]