Many are speculating on the potential effects of a successful trade deal between the U.S. and China, and since this is still weighing us down, there is still upside left with this. There hasn’t been any real doubt that the recent trade tensions between the United States and China have weighed pretty heavily on stock […]
We will be seeing a huge amount of corporate debt maturing soon, with $3.3 trillion of it coming due over the next 5 years. How much should we worry about all of this? Companies obtain financing for their businesses through one of two ways, they can either attract investment through issuing shares or they may […]
Elliot Wave theory is predicting that the stock market may be in for a pretty big tumble soon. There are several prominent price influencers that also need to be accounted for. Elliott Wave theory is a technique used to predict future prices of securities by applying correlations of up and down patterns to current conditions. […]
President Trump may have helped stock markets overall, and he has been a fairly market friendly president, but his influence here is nowhere near close to what he proclaims. Donald Trump has never been known for his modesty, not when in business, and certainly not as president of the United States. While stock markets have […]
As the reports continue to come in during this earnings season, some of them speak louder than others. This is certainly the case with Walmart’s call scheduled for Tuesday. With the Fed laying off on contracting economic growth, and optimism about getting the U.S. and China trade dispute resolved, investors remain focused on the results […]
Retail sales are seen generally as a good measure of economic prosperity at home. When we see a report that is the worst since 2009, that does concern some people. Stock markets have been cruising along rather nicely over the past few days, buoyed by a more optimistic outlook on the prospects of the trade […]
Cisco has been telling us for a while that they aren’t worried about the current business challenges they face. Their current business results back up this resilient outlook. Given the macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges that are supposed to be facing technology companies these days, particularly the shrinking demand that has shown itself in the technology […]
A terrible December had people particularly looking toward technology stocks and the Nasdaq as indicating troubled times. We’ve now fully recaptured those losses. Throughout the market recovery from a bad finish in 2018, seeing things dip by around 20% at its worst and then put in a move upward at Christmas time, we have been […]
With the deadline approaching, we will find out soon what the outcome of this latest round of trade talks will be, and some wonder what will happen in the markets as well. Many people are excited at the prospects of a trade agreement between China and the United States, which may very well be at […]
Cannabis stocks have had a pretty rough ride over the past few months, at a time where expectations were much higher. Two key earnings announcements are set to tell us more. Legal cannabis and legal cannabis producers are seen by a lot of investors as a pretty hot sector, at least in terms of potential. […]