Stephen Tusa of JPMorgan is regarded as the most prominent analyst of GE stock. While this stock has performed fabulously lately, Tusa has changed his outlook. The market does pay attention to analysts, some more than others, and JPMorgan’s Stephen Tusa is one of those who people do watch pretty closely. Tusa had been bullish […]
Actively managed mutual funds, where fund managers pick the stocks in the fund, may be in decline, but many fund managers are looking to do more with their voting rights. One of the perks of stock ownership is being able to decide matters related to the company’s operations, by way of voting your shares. Common […]
As the bull market celebrates its 10th anniversary, and the surge of 2019 continuing on, many believe that things should come to an end soon, but this could go on for a while yet. Bull markets don’t usually last as long as this current one has. 10 years is a pretty long time for one […]
Mutual funds on the whole have been actually pulling out of the stock market, with net outflows totaling almost $40 billion year-to-date. Why are we still going up then? One of the things that people pay attention to is how much money mutual funds contribute or take out of the stock market on a net […]
People just don’t save enough for retirement generally, and some of this has to do with their lack of consideration. We should help them connect the dots to the future better. It’s not really that easy for people to properly decide between present and future value when it comes to making decisions on how much […]
Forced to decide between funding their pension plans and other government spending, U.S. states have chosen to neglect their pension liabilities. The problem is growing larger. Governments, by nature it seems, spend quite a bit more than they take in. We could even say that this is the nature of democratic governments, where parties compete […]
Wheat, like all crops, needs a good amount of rain to grow, but not too much. The recent deluge in the U.S. Midwest is causing some people to get excited about wheat. Trading commodities is by no means a simple task, especially if you are basing your trading upon fundamentals. This all appears to be […]
In spite of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max aircraft having an impact upon the airline industry, as you don’t just pluck so many planes from the grid and not see consequences, this event wasn’t one that really has affected Boeing’s business all that much. You wouldn’t know that though from seeing the way that […]
Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma is known as one of the brightest minds in the investment industry, with both a keen eye and a good understanding of how markets work. Chief global strategist Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley spends a lot of time studying emerging markets and the market in general, and from reading and listening […]
A lot of people are concerned with the effects of climate change, and although this process may seem to be so gradual as to not affect investing, Jeremy Grantham doesn’t think so. Jeremy Grantham, now in his eighties, has been at this game for a long time, and created one of the world’s first index […]