In the rough and tumble world of stocks that we’re in now, investors are presented with all sorts of lists of stocks to go with now. We roll out six for you to have a look at. Stocks have come a long way since their bottoming in late March, and there have been many good […]

It often doesn’t take much to scare financial markets, and the way that they interpreted Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s comments on the prospects of negative interest rates proves this. The very idea of a central bank lending money to banks at negative interest rates is a very recent one, and one that isn’t even that […]

Pointing to several current issues that by themselves would normally weigh on stocks significantly, Goldman sees us giving back 18% of recent stock market gains over the next 3 months. The moment stocks started to rebound from the 35% nosedive caused by the coronavirus outbreak and its economic response, pundits started to line up to […]

AMD outperformed every other stock in the market last year by a huge margin. While this scares some people, especially in the face of a big pullback, AMD continues to shine. There is a strong belief among many investors that stocks that go up a lot are ripe for a correction, where they somehow see […]

Investors place huge sums of money into what are called value funds, hoping that these funds will outperform. It’s not enough to observe their failure, as we need to understand why. The concept of intrinsic value has always been one that has served to confuse a lot of investors. It’s not that the concept itself […]

While stocks do tend to move together a lot, and most investors seek to spread their money out among a wide variety of stocks, stock picking is becoming even more important. There is something about being selective about choosing investments that turns off the great majority of investors. While it is natural to be intimidated […]

Disney just got a check-up and they are even sicker than we thought. They missed their earnings expectations by a mile and have seen their profits decline by 93%. Disney is not a company that does well in seclusion, and many of the things that they make us think of, their theme parks and their […]

Schwab’s chief investment strategist is telling us that we need to be wary of big growth stocks because they are riskier in bear markets. We’re seeing the opposite though. We often speak of all the misunderstanding that there is out there about risk with holding stocks, which mostly occurs from our looking to view risk […]

We sometimes hear concern about how top weighted the S&P is, with 20% of its value in the top 5 out of 500 stocks. This actually makes sense, and is not a misrepresentation. The S&P 500 has been around for 63 years now, and a lot of people have invested in it and continue to […]

How well the stock market has done in the month of April so far, in the face of all the very dark clouds in the economic sky, have people scratching their heads. When we look at the current economic picture, it sure looks like all bad news, all very bad news in fact. Unemployment claims […]