The 3 month and 10-year treasury yield curve remained inverted for the second consecutive trading day on Monday. How much do we need to worry about this? When news items hit the market, they tend to have their biggest impact right away, as investors and traders react to their first sighting. Even though the difference […]

When people think of valuable precious metals, gold immediately comes to mind, along with palladium and platinum. Rhodium is actually now worth more than any of them. Rhodium isn’t a precious metal that many people have that familiar with, although they might have seen it used in jewelry to plate silver. Silver tends to tarnish, […]

With the real possibility that we may be seeing storm clouds forming on the stock market horizon, some of the major IPOs of 2019 are moving up their launch dates. One of the most important consideration in looking to launch a company’s IPO, or initial public offering, is the timing of the release. Companies and […]

Bitcoin has taken quite a beating in the markets, and the CBOE is now planning on delisting it. The media continues to pound it, but things may actually be looking up. To hear Barron’s tell it, in an article just released called “Bitcoin’s Blight Deepens,” you would think that Bitcoin is being left on the […]

Seeing the stock market sell off a couple of percentage points on average is usually not something to be too concerned about. Some selloffs tell a bigger story than others though. The numbers are in for the current week, and while we ended up right around where we started, with the way the week played […]

Investors think nothing of holding a stock overnight, and makes sense for their strategy. The situation is much different for traders who use leverage, where this becomes unwise. The road to getting a drug or other treatment to market is a long one, and this long lead time gives us a good picture of how […]

Apple had been one of the stocks that really suffered during the last major market selloff. It has come back a long way since, but seems poised to move up even more now. Apple stock took it on the chin more than most during the broad selloff that the fourth quarter of 2018 brought, going […]

The long-term trend up has been going on for a long time now. We do have some signs that this current cycle may be ending, and we may need to get out soon. Soon does not mean now. After a rather unusual session on Wednesday, where the stock market was presented with a very market […]

Low Yields on U.S. treasuries that are projected to extend into the future have more investors eyeing dividend stocks. This can be a fine thought if you know what you’re getting into. We can learn quite a bit about the future prospects of the economy by looking at the treasury yield curve, which compares yields […]

Investors prefer a situation where the Fed does not see a need to act over when they act to cool the economy. They chose to stand aside again, and some found this a little scary. 2018 wasn’t such a great year for the stock market, and a lot of this had to do with the […]