Nordstrom stock has been on a real tear over the last 7 months, but not the kind of tear that investors like to see. It has been beaten down so much that it looks like a real bargain to some. Retailer Nordstrom started out the post-recession bull market in real style, where it went from […]

Bitcoin has been on a tear over the last couple of weeks, where it rose almost 60% over this very brief period of time. What goes up that much can also come down a lot as well. Bitcoin investors have been all smiles during April and May, where we have seen the price of bitcoin […]

Newly launched Pinterest stock has done pretty well in its first month on the market. Their first earnings report as a public stock has wiped out almost all of these gains. The thought of investing in an IPO often conjures up dreams of getting in on the cheap on some stocks that go up a […]

Not all that long ago, people used to go to their bank to get their mortgage. This was a very relationship driven business. The internet came along and changed everything. Banks used to handle just about all of the mortgage business at one time, and all of it among those whose credit risk fit the […]

We’re still waiting for the bear market that many have been predicting for a while to hit us. All-time highs aren’t it, but when this does finally come, we need to ask what we will do. All three major U.S. stock market indexes hit all-time highs last week. While there is plenty of fear out […]

After several instances of the bears knocking down stock markets for a couple of percent followed by the bulls spurring a recovery, on Monday, it was an all bear show. After Donald Trump vowed to increase the tariffs on Chinese imports from 10% to 25% a week ago Sunday, everyone knew that the Chinese would […]

Investor Jeremy Grantham is credited with predicting both the 2008 and 2000 market crashes, and he’s predicting some pretty lean times again, this time for 20 years. For those who experienced the big falls that the stock market saw in 2000 and 2008, they might not be all that impressed by someone who has called […]

Morningstar just hosted a conference entitled “Are Index Funds Eating the World”? Some people are worried that index funds may be making everything more expensive. We all know that index funds are growing at a very fast rate, and are now on the brink of overtaking actively managed funds in terms of the percentage of […]

It’s the ninth anniversary of the infamous Flash Crash of May 6, 2010, and while this has been mostly forgotten these days, there are still lessons that we may learn from it. Of all the events that have affected stock markets, there are perhaps none more interesting than the event known as the Flash Crash […]

After a horrible 2018, where Bitcoin prices plunged during a massive selloff, 2019 is shaping up to be much better, and the big money is starting to pay attention now. Given how fast the price of Bitcoin shot up during 2017, starting the year around $900 and rising to over $19,000 by mid-December, you just […]