The fact that “value” stocks on the whole outperformed “growth” stocks last week shouldn’t really raise any eyebrows, but this sure did. Was this really that interesting? The biggest story last week in the stock market was how “value” stocks outperformed “growth” stocks on the whole. It actually only took a couple of days for […]
In a world where economies are so connected, we can no longer to afford to not pay attention to what is happening anywhere, and especially in an area as large as the EU. From taking a cursory view of the changes in the economic situation in the U.S. and elsewhere, the economy of the United […]
It’s not that we didn’t see this coming, but the buying frenzy that sent prices of U.S. treasuries to historic levels had to come to an end sooner or later. Sooner is here. While fundamentals do play a lot bigger role in the bond market than they do with the stock market, momentum still plays […]
You don’t see all that many articles on options plays in the popular financial media, but Barron’s columnist Steven Sears is known to provide a few, and has another for us now. Not a lot of people invest in options, and with good reason. They just don’t know their way around options and may not […]
A company’s business prospects don’t matter as much as many may think, but they do matter, and matter more in some cases. Ford is going in the wrong direction here. The economy may be humming along pretty nicely, but that doesn’t mean that all sectors are doing well. The car industry in particular is one […]
Hedge fund advisor Avi Tiomkin sees us heading for some real gloom and doom due to the economy contracting and deflationary trends unless we do something really drastic. There are always a variety of opinions out there about the economy. While some may be much more well informed than others, it is important that we […]
It is very much taken for granted that bonds, and especially treasuries, are quite a bit less risky than stocks. This isn’t quite accurate, and it’s a lot less accurate these days. U.S. treasuries are considered so low risk that we even call them risk-free. Nothing is absolutely risk-free but the chances of these securities […]
Dividends are a nice bonus with a stock, but with common stocks, the bigger part of the story is always going to be price movement. We need to be careful to enter at the right time. Back on July 11, Barron’s ran an article on how nice Prudential’s 4% dividend was looking, and had some […]
President Trump’s tweet about trade talks set to resume between the U.S. and China might have been wishful thinking, but this particular wish has now been granted. There has been a lot of back and forth in the stock markets over the last month as it fended off concerns about the economy possibly weakening too […]
Social media app Snap debuted in early 2017 and until this year was a bust by any definition. 2019 has seen the stock snap back pretty nicely and it may not be done. When people buy IPOs, the expectation is that it will bust out of the gate and just keep going. Some do, like […]