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European Stocks Starting to Look Attractive to Some

Europe

Several U.S. fund managers are starting to eye European stocks in spite of how poorly this region has performed for a long time. Is it time for us to start considering them as well? Many people may be familiar with the concept of opportunity cost in economics, perhaps remembering it from a course they may […]

Amazon Misses on Earnings Per Share, Price Drops 8%

Amazon

Most companies are coming in ahead of estimates for third quarter earnings, which is due in part to particularly understated predictions. Amazon’s wasn’t set low enough. When your company is worth 888 billion, a single percentage point move in your stock adds up to 8.8 billion. Amazon dropped 8.75 of these when it’s third quarter […]

Do Recessions and Bear Markets Always Go Together?

Recessions and Bear Markets

Fresh off his remarks about how we need to raise the wealth tax much higher than proposed, Bernstein’s Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak leads us in a discussion about bears. There are surely many people who think that bear markets and recessions simply go together, where a bear market will mean a recession is going on and a […]

Stock Analysts Now Pulling Support for Boeing

Boeing

In spite of all the problems that Boeing has had lately with its 737 MAX aircraft, Wall St. Analysts have stood by them. The leaked emails now having them turning on Boeing. Boeing started 2019 by simply busting out of the gate. From the close of trading on December 24 to the close on March […]

ConocoPhillips Stock Does Look Cheap Right Now

ConocoPhillips

Energy stock ConocoPhillips is being touted as a buy right now by JPMorgan because it has sold off so much this year. Whether the selling has stopped is what we need to decide. You hear stocks being described as “cheap” quite often, although any time a stock loses value it can be called that. It’s […]

How Biden’s Capital Gains Reform Will Affect Stocks

Jor Biden

In terms of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, Joe Biden clearly appears to be the least damaging to the stock market, but this does not mean there won’t be any. Compared to the impact of wealth taxes, raising the capital gains tax on those whose income is $1 million or more would certainly be low-impact […]