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 […]

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 […]

The more a stock gets beat up, the more the bargain hunters salivate. These mouths have plenty of reason to water with American Airlines, but should this meal be served? Bottom picking stocks can be a challenging task, but if you can get in at the right time, these plays can turn out to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investor position indicator has turned bearish for the first time since January. That apparently means that stocks are bearish and we should buy. There are a lot of different indicators that people look at to look to be shown the way as far as where the price of a stock […]