It obviously took a lot for CIO David Rolfe of Westwood Partners to finally dump his Berkshire Hathaway stock, but the reasons ultimately got too overwhelming to resist. To call Warren Buffett an investing legend doesn’t quite seem to describe the level of fame that he has achieved. Warren has held the title of the […]

After waiting patiently all trading day for news from the trade dispute front, holding its breath for something substantial, we at least got the minimum, but hopes were higher. With the way that the trade dispute between China and the United States has been going, where the situation has just been getting worse with each […]

After several years of struggle, Target stock is up 69% year-to-date and still rising. Losing their head of merchandising may concern some, but without good reason. The world of retail has become a much more challenging one to succeed in lately, and in particular, since Walmart and Amazon have come to dominate it. The success […]

Even with a new CEO in place with an impressive track record in retail, and investors providing a 22% gain in one day in a vote of confidence, this is far from a solid stock yet. The retail sector has fallen upon some pretty hard times overall, taking several long-standing successful companies and washing them […]

The market simply has not liked the much leaner Fox Corp. stock that first hit the market on March 13. After giving back a quarter of its initial trading price, it may be worth a look. It didn’t seem like the $38.60 that the new version of Fox traded at back in March was too […]

There is a fair bit of uncertainty surrounding the potential end of the current bull market with stocks. Citibank is stepping up to reassure investors that the outlook remains good. We should never just take someone at their word when it comes to managing our finances. There are always voices out there that continually looking […]

Some believe that fending off a pending recession will require all the tools we can muster, including a lot of “infrastructure spending.” Is this really warranted? We learned some valuable lessons during the Great Depression, or at least there were lessons to be learned, whether we learned them all that well or not. One of […]

Stocks rallied Thursday due to increased hopes that the Federal Reserve may lower rates later this month. Friday brought us a solid jobs report, which pushed them up further. Many economics hold the belief that unemployment below a certain level, 5.5% generally, it causes too much inflation that may need to be managed. They believe […]

We don’t generally find stock analysts changing their ratings on stocks to be all that interesting, but analysts becoming more bullish on Spotify right now does stand out. The first thing that you need to understand about the work of stock analysts is that they don’t really speak to the goals of investors anywhere as […]

Stocks go up by 4.3% on average during the fourth quarter. If you like to bet on the average of what happens over many years, you can find yourself in trouble on off years. The fact that the stock market tends to go up in the fourth quarter by a fairly nice amount, 4.3% on […]