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, […]
We often look to history to try to see the future, and this especially applies to stocks. History can be helpful, but we want to make sure that we don’t try to replace the present. As we continue to move further and further away from the stock market low that we put in on March […]
Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks is known for his great timing, specializing in buying stocks when they are beat up. He believes that the market is in that situation now. Howard Marks may be far from a household name among investors, and his net worth of $2 billion pales in comparison to the big money out […]
Stocks usually go down after being downgraded by analysts, so GM stock gaining 9% after a downgrade seems very strange. These are not normal times though. It’s been no secret that the automotive sector has fallen upon hard times, at least with the stocks in the sector. It is not enough for a company to […]
Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners is sounding the alarm. We’re about to open Pandora’s economic box, and the worms we see may set off another round of panic. While stock markets have stabilized from the beating that they took over pandemic fears, and we’re even seeing the outbreak situation start to stabilize as well, not […]
Steven Sears has been writing columns promoting options trading for individual investors since 2006. He’s now suggesting that they use options to replace dividends. Dividends have always had a special place in the hearts of many investors, a love affair that continues even in the face of the economic crisis that we are in the […]
Many investors, including both individuals and institutional investors, get excited about the opportunities that high market volatility present. We need to be careful out there. You don’t really know how confused that you are if you are among the confused. In order to be able to tell, you need some sort of benchmark to compare […]
Oil stocks have been infamously bad for a long time, but nothing on the scale of what has happened lately. Oil is simply too important to be kept down this low for all that long. Our economy has run into a brick wall lately, which has a lot of investors scurrying around for opportunities. Among […]
David Hammer of bond king Pimco is doing his best to drum up more interest in municipal bonds. Their little scare may be over, but there’s little to be excited about here. There are three main types of bonds that people can invest in, which are sovereign bonds issued by federal governments, such as U.S. […]
Even in the best of times, there are always people who remain bearish, and during full moons like this, really come out to howl at it. Economist Charles Dumas is leading the way. Hardly anyone would claim that we are out of the woods yet with the coronavirus panic response. As long as this continues […]