The talk of the bond market being in trouble, or at the very least undesirable, has been going on for a while. Bonds have gotten even more bullish lately, which is scaring them more. While we could say that there are a lot of people who don’t really understand the stock market that well, most […]

Bond funds have experienced a huge leap in popularity recently. While bond funds can be a useful tool, it is important that we understand their proper uses to get the most of them. A lot of people invest in stocks as their primary holding, and they understand pretty well how stocks work and what they […]

The Fed announced its decision and outlook on interest rates Wednesday afternoon, and we got exactly what was alluded to. Some wished for more and were left disappointed. We would think it quite normal that people on the street might not understand the actions of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee very well, perhaps thinking […]

Economist Paul Shea of Miller Tabak has spoken out about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s recent prognostications of doom for the economy, believing that her view is overstated. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren claims to have predicted the economic collapse of 2008 well in advance, and she is now telling us that something similar […]

Chip stocks are up 40% this year on average, which means that this sector has grown twice as much as the S&P 500 index. Does this mean that we should be afraid? Fundamental analysts have a natural tendency to believe that stocks have a limited amount of growth that they can see over a certain […]

Microsoft’s rise in the 1990s was spectacular, where their stock grew almost 100 times. It then had to spend 14 years stuck in a rut, but since 2014, it’s been on a roll again. Whenever we speak of stocks that have come a long way since they hit the stock market, Microsoft most definitely stands […]

Netflix’s quarterly earnings report looked pretty decent all in all, with earnings beating expectations and the number of subscribers up, but they got severely punished anyway. Netflix is a stock that can move a lot more than the market does, and between Christmas and last Wednesday, it was up a mouth-watering 66%. That didn’t just […]

Many people are aware of how much more debt is held with negative yield government bonds these days, but corporate bonds can also trade at negative yield levels. Bonds with negative yields can appear to be strange things indeed among those who do not really understand bonds that well. This can even surpass our imaginations […]

With the consensus view being that earnings growth will be declining, this may cause us to be concerned that the value of our stocks may be going down. Will this happen? People who pay a fair bit of attention to the news about the stock market and the stocks that they may be holding are […]

A lot of investors are complaining quite loudly about the poor yields that today’s bonds offer in this low inflation environment. If we trade them instead, we don’t really care. Seeing bond yields plummet in value and then hearing people describe the bond market as very bullish right now might not make a lot of […]