The story behind Bed Bath and Beyond’s stock over the last few years has been a truly ugly one, and shows what can happen if we simply hold on to our positions and just hope. The collapse of retailer Bed Bath and Beyond’s stock didn’t happen overnight, as the writing has been on the wall […]
Microsoft’s rise in the 1990s was spectacular, where their stock grew almost 100 times. It then had to spend 14 years stuck in a rut, but since 2014, it’s been on a roll again. Whenever we speak of stocks that have come a long way since they hit the stock market, Microsoft most definitely stands […]
Disney had been a pretty boring stock over the last 4 years, until a surge from its last earnings report finally saw it break through. JPMorgan thinks it can go even higher. Disney is a stock that has been pretty easy to trade long term, as its trends are both pretty distinct as well as […]
Netflix’s quarterly earnings report looked pretty decent all in all, with earnings beating expectations and the number of subscribers up, but they got severely punished anyway. Netflix is a stock that can move a lot more than the market does, and between Christmas and last Wednesday, it was up a mouth-watering 66%. That didn’t just […]
JP Morgan Chase just announced their quarterly earnings, and they beat estimates by a handy amount. This usually means a stock’s price goes up, not down, but not always. Many stock market participants and observers eagerly await quarterly earnings reports and company guidance, and depending on how these reports come out, this can affect the […]
Facebook is hoping to get into the cryptocurrency business with the proposed launch of its Libra currency. The positions on both sides of this battle seem to be pretty confused. There are a lot of cryptocurrencies around these days, and while Bitcoin and a few other major players get all the attention and all the […]
Retailers rely significantly on private brands. A tiny bit of Amazon’s business is from this, but not everyone thinks that we are entitled to benefit from the value this offers. Some Democrats just don’t like big companies it seems, especially ones that make their money from the internet. This is especially true for those who […]
While Expedia hasn’t offered its stockholders much to get excited about over the last couple of years, Dan Wasiolek sees some real potential with this travel stock. Expedia at one time had the online travel jungle virtually to themselves, back in the early days of travel sites. They started as a division of Microsoft back […]
Many people are aware of how much more debt is held with negative yield government bonds these days, but corporate bonds can also trade at negative yield levels. Bonds with negative yields can appear to be strange things indeed among those who do not really understand bonds that well. This can even surpass our imaginations […]
While Trump’s threat of getting rid of rebates that drug companies pay third party agents has many breathing a sigh of relief, this battle against drug prices may be far from over. As a general rule anyway, kickbacks aren’t permitted, although for some reason the pharmaceutical industry often doesn’t follow general rules. The prescription drug […]