The huge bear market that hit stocks in 2000 is generally referred to as the tech bubble bursting, and some people are now in fear of the sky falling now in a similar fashion. With all the talk out there these days about the stock market allegedly moving toward another possible tech bubble bursting, we […]

If you start with the hypothesis that the price of stocks should represent the overall economy, maybe it’s not so strange that you would try to blame someone when you are proven wrong. There’s no question that economic crises and bear markets with stocks can happen together, and it’s actually pretty unusual that we see […]

It’s not that the Nasdaq has hit another bear market or anything, and the 1.1% that this index dropped this week is not even meaningful. The bears are really taking notice though. People seem to be paying a lot of attention to the Nasdaq this week, given that the other two major indexes, the S&P […]

Facebook is no stranger to controversy, and in spite of all the attacks they have endured, they always managed to bounce back. They even brush off widespread boycotts. If you build a better mousetrap like Facebook has, and your mousetrap works amazingly well in practice, you can stand to take a few jolts here and […]

Stock indexes are neither created equally nor are necessarily designed to be representative of stocks in general. People want them to be, but they need to wonder why. Whenever we refer to how stocks in general or the stock market is doing, we refer to the performance of stock indexes, baskets of stocks assembled by […]

It should not surprise us that among the good performing sectors this year, the biotech sector is among them, in the midst of a pandemic. Returning to normal isn’t so rosy though. When we focus on a particular sector among a broader stock index, such as the iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF as a component of […]

With the growth of the stock market in general thought to be dimming, and bond yields being so low, preferred stock is starting to look more attractive to many investors. One of the first things you learn when you study stocks is that there are two main types, common stock and preferred stock. Preferred stock […]

Things were proceeding so well for stocks in their recovery from getting hammered over coronavirus fears. We got drunk and overdid it, we sobered up, and now we’ve hit the bottle again. For many, it can be very difficult and even maddeningly so to try to figure out what drives the stock market day to […]

Car rental stocks took a particularly big hit from our self-imposed quarantine, like all travel stocks did. They have started to come back, but some remain quite leery. While people rent cars for other reasons, such as when their car is being repaired, the great majority of rentals happen when people fly to a destination […]

Chipotle Mexican Grill was one of our top 5 stocks for 2020. Then the lockdown happened and it really got creamed. The cream does rise to the top though. People tend to be afraid of stocks that are performing very well, and especially with those performing extremely well like Chipotle. This stock grew by 289% […]