Over the din of all the moaning and groaning about low treasury yields, we told our readers to be wary of the higher risk represented by this. This is now starting to kick in. The price of a security, whether that be stocks, bonds, or anything else, is dependent upon future expectations. With a stock, […]
Wednesday, November 6 has been a date that has been looming with Uber stock since it debuted in May. That day is now here, and a flood of supply is now in the mix. During an IPO, some of the shares of a company get offered for sale at the issue price, which gets bought […]
McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook had been guiding the company very well over his 4-year tenure. He was unceremoniously dumped this week, for reasons that should startle us. Steve Easterbrook started his career with McDonald’s in 1993 as a manager of one of their restaurants in London. The fast food industry, including McDonalds, has never been […]
Under Armour has already been an embattled stock, falling from the over $100 it traded at 4 years ago to hanging around the $20 area since the start of 2017. Things just got worse. When your company is under investigation by the Justice Department for fraudulent accounting practices, and it also has had some pretty […]
RAFI funds look to improve the standard value investing approach by not just investing just because a stock is doing badly. Does this approach improve this strategy enough? We somehow ended up with two different terms to describe stocks, value stocks and growth stocks. When it comes to stocks, the value of a stock and […]
The backlash against salmon farming is just beginning. Not all salmon farms are dangerous though, and one Norwegian company has found a safer way to do this. One of the reasons why salmon or any seafood doesn’t come close to the volume of sales that chicken, pork, and beef do is that the supply for […]
Another rate cut by the Fed, continued optimism for a trade deal, and a job market that continues to expand all have propelled stock indexes to make further all-time highs. Whatever concerns we have had about the bear market ending, employment statistics haven’t been one of them. We might be late in the current cycle […]
Apple had a fabulous fourth quarter and easily beat the expectations on the street. The 5G iPhone is at least a year away, and in the meantime, China is rolling out 5G now. In spite of just rolling out a stellar quarterly earnings call, which saw Apple earn $3.04 per share versus the consensus estimate […]
Just about everyone was expecting a third quarter point cut in the Fed funds rate during Wednesday’s announcement, but we also got some reassurance of this as well. The Federal Reserve has been known to overreact at times sometimes on the side of being cautious about not wanting to do too much to stimulate the […]
Companies usually go out of their way to put as positive a spin as they can on their results to stroke their stocks. Grubhub just chose to tell the naked truth, and got slammed. Food delivery service Grubhub has had their stock listed for over 5 years now, starting out in March 2014 at an […]