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Stock Market Holds its Breath as Trump Takes His Turn

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The stock market still may underestimate the threat from Biden, still thinking he’s a moderate, but it might not matter, given the way Biden’s campaign is starting to come apart. It’s no secret to anyone who Wall Street would prefer to win the Presidency. This is not a matter of being partisan politically, as like […]

Voters to Decide Fate of App-Based Drivers in California

App based Taxi drivers

After coming within mere hours of seeing ride sharing companies shut down their operations in California, the appeal against new legislation has now been sent to the people. The idea of having people work as independent contractors is far from a new one, and actually has been around for as long as people have been […]

Fed Minutes Scare Markets, For a Little While Anyway

Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve released their minutes of their late July FOMC meeting, where they told us things look good. This outlook seems to include another bailout. The minutes from the last Fed meeting back on July 28-29 seemed to have a chilling effect on stock markets on Wednesday, which produced a decline that carried on […]

Boning Up on Inverse ETFs for Inverse Markets

Inverse ETFs

With the prospects of an extended bear market on the horizon, investors would be wise to rethink old strategies that end up being completely inappropriate for these markets. If you ask any investor why they invest, and they thought about their answer at all, it surely would be that they are looking to make money […]

Biotech ETFs Look Promising, But Beware the Promise

Biotech ETFs

With the COVID-19 pandemic still hanging around, and with the mad scramble for a vaccine, this may seem like a great time to be invested in biotechs. Be careful. We hear all the time that the COVID-19 pandemic has been the worst in 100 years, since the Spanish flu days. Perhaps they have never heard […]

Robinhood Leading Charge to Democratize Stock Market

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Participation in the stock market used to be limited to investors of real means. Technology has changed all that, and things just got a whole lot more accessible lately. Technology has dramatically changed the way we live, and among the many changes that this has brought, greater and more efficient access to stocks is right […]

Goldman Sachs Recommends Utility Sector as a Buy

Goldman Sachs

Utility stocks had a pretty good year in 2019, where they actually kept up with the market. 2020 hasn’t been very kind, but Goldman Sachs wants us to buck the current trend. Even though the utility sector isn’t really that competitive overall, we always look to view each situation according to its current merits, and […]