Big bank stocks haven’t been particularly well-loved as of late, as evidenced by their lower price to earnings ratios. JP Morgan Chase is at least the most loved of the bunch. A company like a JP Morgan Chase isn’t going to excite a lot of investors with its growth potential, and bank stocks themselves are […]

With stock markets still reeling from six straight weeks of declines due to concerns about trade, we now have to worry about Mexico as well with Trump’s latest assault. The trade war between the United States and China has been going on for over a year now. There have been various degrees of hope along […]

In spite of being beat down a little lately from disappointing earnings, some investors are starting to really like the potential of MGM’s stock now. Is it worth taking a chance on? The MGM brand became famous for its motion pictures, then known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company was bought by casino and airline magnate Kirk […]

Just about everyone believes that as we get nearer to retirement, and especially after retirement, we should be more conservative with our investing. Is this the right approach? There are good reasons behind our recommending that people be more aggressive with their investments early in life and more conservative as time goes on, and this […]

After several instances of the bears knocking down stock markets for a couple of percent followed by the bulls spurring a recovery, on Monday, it was an all bear show. After Donald Trump vowed to increase the tariffs on Chinese imports from 10% to 25% a week ago Sunday, everyone knew that the Chinese would […]

While financial advisors always have told us to wait until age 70 to collect Social Security benefits, the changing landscape of Social Security should have us rethinking this. Whenever we’ve done the math on the comparative benefits between taking Social Security earlier or later, later has always won out, provided that we at least expect […]

Just about everyone thinks that the upcoming shortfall in the Social Security balance sheet, which will cause it to become bankrupt, is solely because of changing demographics. The Baby Boomer generation is starting to retire, and this will certainly place a larger and larger load upon the Social Security system, resulting in the amounts paid […]

The first thing people may have thought when they saw the U.S. first quarter GDP come in so much higher than expected is that this may be alarming. We need not worry. There are some smaller creatures that, when faced with a threat, will puff themselves up to appear bigger than they actually are. This […]

We’re often told to diversify a lot with our stock positions. While some diversification can make sense, if we’re picking our stocks ourselves, how much of this do we need? Phil Fisher is considered by some to be among the greatest investors of all time. Warren Buffet, who is widely regarded to be in this […]

2019 has started out pretty bullish for the overall stock market, but with many health care stocks, it’s been a year to forget so far. Things don’t look like they are changing. United Health Care serves as a good example of how health care stocks are starting to really get swatted by the bears out […]