The price of oil simply wilted under the heat of the coronavirus lockdown. As things inch more and more towards normal, oil is rising as fast as it fell, and there’s lots more room to grow. It was only a month ago that the price of oil touched minus $40 a barrel, during a mad […]

Legendary hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones, like the majority of investors, believed that gold was the best hedge against inflation. He’s changed his mind. Paul Tudor Jones knows his stuff, and is not only one of the most famous hedge fund investors in the world, he’s also widely regarded as one of the best. […]

Disney just got a check-up and they are even sicker than we thought. They missed their earnings expectations by a mile and have seen their profits decline by 93%. Disney is not a company that does well in seclusion, and many of the things that they make us think of, their theme parks and their […]

The idea with long-term investing in stocks is to see significant price growth. GE stock is down 90% over the last 20 years, and this trend does not look like it will end anytime soon. Investors love to hold on to stocks over the long term and turn their eyes away from the normal ups […]

How well the stock market has done in the month of April so far, in the face of all the very dark clouds in the economic sky, have people scratching their heads. When we look at the current economic picture, it sure looks like all bad news, all very bad news in fact. Unemployment claims […]

Futures contract expiration days can be plenty interesting, and a lot of money can be made, but Monday’s May WTI oil futures trading took us into another universe. A lot of money is made and lost trading oil futures, and there are some epic stories out there already, big traders who got caught on the […]

While there remains some serious questions out there as to where stocks may be headed during the coming economic recovery, Amazon is going up even more now. Stock selection is a lot more important than the great majority of investors realize, and when the market becomes as embattled as it has been, the stakes go […]

Stocks usually go down after being downgraded by analysts, so GM stock gaining 9% after a downgrade seems very strange. These are not normal times though. It’s been no secret that the automotive sector has fallen upon hard times, at least with the stocks in the sector. It is not enough for a company to […]

The battle against the coronavirus is being fought on two fronts, the health one and the economic one. Former Senator Jim DeMint is one of the few seriously looking at both. In the frenzy that has developed over our trying to limit the number of deaths that COVID-19, the points of view out there have […]

Many investors, including both individuals and institutional investors, get excited about the opportunities that high market volatility present. We need to be careful out there. You don’t really know how confused that you are if you are among the confused. In order to be able to tell, you need some sort of benchmark to compare […]