There is an old adage among investors that they should “sell in May and go away,” taking the rest of the year off. Does this strategy make sense this year? We can and often do look back at previous market data to seek out opportunities to improve our results. There are many adages that have […]

Health care reform is a big priority for Democratic senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. The biggest obstacle is how this would be paid for, but he has some ideas. It’s not hard to make a good case for the U.S. health care system needing some serious remediation, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is […]

ETF business is booming, and is now a $4 trillion a year industry. 80% of ETF business is concentrated in just 3 firms, with more than a hundred other firms fighting for the scraps. Exchange traded funds, known as ETFs for short, have made huge inroads into the realm of investing, and are even getting […]

The European Union has enough to worry about these days, with the economy and the Brexit escapade. They now have to deal with a very real threat of $11 billion in tariffs. The United States and the European Union have been battling over the fairness of European subsidies to leading aircraft maker Airbus for 14 […]

Stephen Tusa of JPMorgan is regarded as the most prominent analyst of GE stock. While this stock has performed fabulously lately, Tusa has changed his outlook. The market does pay attention to analysts, some more than others, and JPMorgan’s Stephen Tusa is one of those who people do watch pretty closely. Tusa had been bullish […]

In spite of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft having an impact upon the airline industry, as you don’t just pluck so many planes from the grid and not see consequences, this event wasn’t one that really has affected Boeing’s business all that much. You wouldn’t know that though from seeing the way that […]

Bear markets certainly scare a lot of investors, and given that so many are predicting one soon, this may evoke feelings of doom. We might want to get excited instead. In spite of all the prognostications of the end of our long bull market with stocks, the stock market continues its trek upward at the […]

Few people have ever heard of Amphenol, even though they are a pretty big company. Their stock’s performance over the last 7 years has been something to watch though. Amphenol sure sounds like a prescription drug, perhaps even a barbiturate, a cousin of Alphenal perhaps, which many people use to relax and sleep. Amphenol might […]

With all the concern about slowing GDP growth lately, investors have now learned that the fourth quarter of 2018 wasn’t as rosy as we had thought, and we only grew by 2.2%. Reports about the economy aren’t written in stone when they get released, and a good example of this is with what we believed […]

It actually took a lot longer than we may have thought to fully recover from the Great Recession. Rates of non-performing loans are finally back to before this all started. One of the meaningful ways that we measure the state of our economy is to look at the percentage of loans that are not performing, […]