Beyond Meat announced a new product after the close on Monday, which got traders excited enough to push its stock price up by 18% overnight. This gain is all gone now. Beyond Meat’s IPO has been a phenomenal success so far. While we often see its opening price at $25, that’s just what the big […]
After a disappointing month of May which saw markets decline by 6%, putting a real dent into the 2019 rally, things turned around in June. The Fed likely will crash the party this week. We can’t ever know for sure how much expectations of a Fed rate cut have been priced into the market so […]
Technical analysts examine price trends to look to predict future movements in price with stocks. While certain indicators can suggest a move, we need to look at the whole picture. There are two main types of financial market analysts, and three if we count the quants, although this is actually just a subset of technical […]
When your stock is up 273% from its opening price in a little over a month, in a month where stocks did terribly overall, it takes more than an analyst downgrade to end the party. When people looked at the IPO calendar for 2019, Beyond Meat just didn’t get the attention or focus that it […]
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 […]
When a stock loses half its value in just 6 months, during a time when the market has put together a significant rally, and you’re still losing a lot of money, any ray of hope helps. Tesla stock traded as high as $376.79 six months ago, but it has been on a steady journey down […]
Utility stocks are usually thought of as defensive, functioning as a hedge by reducing your exposure to risk, since they go down less. Some provide lots of offense as well. One of the ways that we measure stocks among each other is how they move relative to the overall market. Stocks that move more than […]
After a terrible May for U.S. stock markets, with investor confidence continuing to decline, any good news is welcomed, even the subtle hints made on Tuesday by Jerome Powell. With economic growth shrinking, and the trade war with China not only raging on but doing so even more intensely, along with new tariffs announced on […]
Friday was difficult enough, with stock markets grappling with new tariffs, this time on Mexican imports. On Monday, some big tech companies got more added to their plate. When news hits the market, this serves to adjust the outlook of the stock market on the issues at hand. For example, when we hear disappointing news […]
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 […]