As unrealistic as Medicare for All is, health care stocks, especially insurers, got hammered by the very idea. Humana gave back almost 20% from this. Is it on the way back now? Humana was a delightful stock from the fall of 2016 until the fall of 2018, where it more than doubled in value over […]

You never really know how the stock market will react to a given news item. The Federal Reserve once again declined to lower rates, but this time it was well accepted. There has been a lot of concerns about the economy among investors and commentators, and is often the case with such things, these concerns […]

Technical analysts examine price trends to look to predict future movements in price with stocks. While certain indicators can suggest a move, we need to look at the whole picture. There are two main types of financial market analysts, and three if we count the quants, although this is actually just a subset of technical […]

When your stock position loses over 70%, and you watch $20 billion disappear, you might want to question why you are still in the stock. It’s not always easy to get out though. When Kraft Heinz dropped off the table last February, closing the week on Friday at $48.26 and opening up again on Monday […]

Many younger people now believe that they don’t need to worry about retirement, since it won’t matter with the apocalypse coming. This gives us some real insight into how they think. It’s hard enough to get young people to save for anything, let alone retirement. They really don’t need much of an excuse not to […]

Tesla stock has been in freefall since last December 10, with its losses over the last 5 months now at 44%. Given their outlook and how the stock is trading, this could all get worse. Investors don’t always insist on a strong positive bottom line to be willing to take a stake in a company, […]

Investor Jeremy Grantham is credited with predicting both the 2008 and 2000 market crashes, and he’s predicting some pretty lean times again, this time for 20 years. For those who experienced the big falls that the stock market saw in 2000 and 2008, they might not be all that impressed by someone who has called […]

Apple shared some news which the market after the close Tuesday, with their announcement of their quarterly results, and the market expressed its approval on Wednesday. On a day where stock markets were decidedly negative, nothing stood in the way of the side party that the markets had for Apple on Wednesday. Apple gapped up […]

While there is much speculation on whether Chevron or Occidental will win the bid to take over Anadarko Petroleum, you can’t just necessarily go by the size of the bids. Takeover bids with companies aren’t always decided by the size of a company’s offer, and it just may not be in the case of Chevron […]

The very thought of investing in non-agency mortgage backed securities still strikes fear in the hearts of many investors. The ones that collapsed are still very much alive though. Mortgage backed securities, or MBS, became a household name during the housing collapse of 2007-2008, and the crash of these securities became blamed for a serious […]