2019 has started out pretty bullish for the overall stock market, but with many health care stocks, it’s been a year to forget so far. Things don’t look like they are changing. United Health Care serves as a good example of how health care stocks are starting to really get swatted by the bears out […]
Trading in options is far from the beaten path of your typical investor, especially selling them. Some investors do use this strategy though, but they can be plenty tricky. The world of options trading is a complex one to say the least, about as far as you can get from your normal buy and hold […]
BlackRock’s earnings come in a little short of expectations, but the ETF market that they dominate is still red hot. The company is also seeing a real potential for further market gains. It is earnings season again, and when we are looking at the earnings of the world’s largest fund company, or money manager of […]
Health care reform is a big priority for Democratic senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. The biggest obstacle is how this would be paid for, but he has some ideas. It’s not hard to make a good case for the U.S. health care system needing some serious remediation, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is […]
Democrats and Republicans traditionally disagree on matters of taxation, with Republicans preferring less of it and Democrats more. This divide may be bigger than ever now. One of the governing principles of modern governments is that those who earn more must pay more, not just in terms of nominal amounts but also pay a higher […]
With our entering a period of at least global economic slowdown, we need to be aware of the potential for political dissent, and a lot of this anger is directed at the banking sector. We don’t have to go back very far in time to see how economic slowdowns can rile up a lot of […]
While investors normally applaud increases in wages, as this does indicate a growing economy, Morgan Stanley analysts are concerned that this may even contribute to a recession. Seeing both a growth in jobs and a growth in wages is something that investors find pretty appealing, as these are inflationary pressures that stimulate economic growth. The […]
According to U.S. President Donald Trump, the stock market should be 10,000 points higher than it is today if not for the Federal Reserve not acting to support its growth enough. Whether or not people think Donald Trump is sufficiently qualified or suited to be President of the United States is to a large degree […]
ETF business is booming, and is now a $4 trillion a year industry. 80% of ETF business is concentrated in just 3 firms, with more than a hundred other firms fighting for the scraps. Exchange traded funds, known as ETFs for short, have made huge inroads into the realm of investing, and are even getting […]
Current projections have us moving from a 2.9% GDP growth rate in 2018 to around just 2% in 2019, and stay around this level until 2022. What does this mean for stocks? There’s no question that the growth of our economy is slowing down lately. The predictions of it dropping to around the 2% level […]