The Federal Reserve normally confines its bond buying to U.S. treasuries, and its buying corporate bonds is a big departure. Buying corporate junk bonds is even more so. The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States normally only seeks to manage the economy by taking actions that either increase or decrease the country’s money supply, […]

A certain sector of bank stock investors, those who invest to collect dividends, don’t seem bothered no matter how much money they lose on stocks, but hands-off dividends. There seems to be no limit to how far many investors are willing to go in order to keep collecting their quarterly dividend payments. They will hold […]

While it is too soon to say that the worst is over with the recent panic in the stock market, we’re seeing real signs that the buyers may be ready to really jump in. As bad as the fear has been in the markets over the last 5 weeks, and as out of proportion as […]

Wednesday’s trading saw stocks, treasuries, corporate bonds, gold, and oil all get hammered. The only game in town right now is to ride with the bears, not the bulls. No matter how much something has gone down or how quickly it is going down, there has to be someone that holds long positions in it. […]

Up until this week, the Dow has never lost 1200 points in a single day. We’ve done this three times this week, including hitting the new record on Thursday where we lost 10%. We use a 20% decline to define a bear market, although this is just an arbitrary number and we could have chosen […]

While the great majority of stock investors wrestle with the decision of how much to be in or out during these wild times, those more in the know instead see opportunities. Exchange traded funds, or ETFs, have become enormously popular among investors over the last few years, and more and more money is put into […]

While those who know little about how monetary policy works might be happy with the half-point rate cut the Fed laid down on Tuesday, those in the know are left bewildered. There have been only a handful of Americans that have been diagnosed with the COVID-19 coronavirus, but much of the country has been gripped […]

While investors were left reeling from what is considered an absolutely terrible week for stocks, it provided unbelievable opportunities to those who are good at trading indexes. This week was as tough as they come for investors, with the first four days producing massive losses and the fifth being in massive loss territory until the […]

Stock markets came down with the coronavirus last month and quickly recovered once the fever broke. New fears have hit the market, and we’re left wondering once again. There has only been one day in history that the Dow lost more than 1000 points, back on February 6, 2018. That day was one for the […]

It’s not easy to find an actively managed fund that does what it is supposed to, which is to provide above average and not below average returns. MFS is doing its best. It is actually pretty amazing how so many poor performing mutual funds there are out there, and how people continue to invest in […]