Stocks of U.S. automakers GM and Ford have been far less than exciting anyway, but declining sales numbers are expected to make them even less exciting in 2019. The forecast for U.S. auto sales for 2019 are in. Edmunds projects total unit sales of 16.7 million this year, down from 17.3 in 2018. Sales have […]

After disappointing the analysts a couple of weeks ago with their quarterly earnings call, Nike has laced on their shoes again and appears ready to resume its forward progress. Nike got its start all the way back in 1964, when University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman got together to […]

Bear markets certainly scare a lot of investors, and given that so many are predicting one soon, this may evoke feelings of doom. We might want to get excited instead. In spite of all the prognostications of the end of our long bull market with stocks, the stock market continues its trek upward at the […]

Many investors jump on financial stocks with the intention of taking advantage of their better dividends. This is just one aspect of them, and not even the biggest one. Buying common stock of financial companies is a popular way for investors on the more conservative side to seek to achieve their investing objectives. This isn’t […]

Lyft finally got its IPO off the ground last Friday, but it’s been sputtering since. It’s not so much that it has dropped almost 20% in 3 trading days, it’s more about when the bleeding will stop. IPOs get issued with a lot of hope and promise, and investors are usually very eager to get […]

The dropping yield of 10-year treasury bills have really been in the news lately, because of an inversion. How much should we even be concerned about 10-year treasuries? There are a number of reasons why the price and yield of treasuries such as the 10-year differ, and it’s not all just about people predicting rough […]

A lot of people are looking at bond yields as an early warning for a coming recession. What we should be looking at is the credit market, as this isn’t a correlation, it’s the cause. If we’re worried about a recession, looking at the last one we had, the Great one, can be pretty instructive […]

Given all the talk and even quite a bit of concern about the threat of another bear market showing its ugly face soon, it pays to brush up on our skills on how to track a bear. What goes up must come down isn’t really true about the stock market, but we can at least […]